Body Parts Found In Suitcases Left On Brooklyn Street

Police descended on Walworth Street (between Flushing and Park) in Brooklyn, after two suitcases full of body parts was discovered on the sidewalk. According to the Daily News, a homeless man found the suitcases in plastic bags but then screamed, "Call the cops! There's a chopped-up person in the bags!"

However, the Post says a milk warehouse worker made the find—Upstate Dairy Farm is across the street. One worker told WABC 7, "I see a lot of police, and when I went close to the place, I saw two suitcases on the floor and I see a foot, cut of. That was horrible, a chopped up body."

Another witness told the News, "It was a foot with a Timberland shoe and sock. I couldn't see much skin. It was just bone." And WABC 7 adds, "Workers say the suitcases must have been placed there over the weekend, because they were not seen last Friday when the workers went home."

NY1 spoke to one shocked worker, "It's terrible. Especially right here, why would it happen right here? This is unbelievable. I mean when I saw this I was shocked myself, especially right here on a quiet block, especially a Jewish neighborhood and all that. Why did it have to happen right here?" The ME's office is examining the bones and may have more details at the end of the day.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 31, 2009 10:09 AM

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awasthi

Appears to be human body parts was found in two suitcases left on the sidewalk. The gruesome discovery was made around 10 a.m. The body had reportedly been chopped up, placed in bags and then put in the luggage. Thanks.

Car Parts

mike,hast.....

emilyahn

as the few days have passed... i've become progressively more curious and scared... is there any more info?

emilyahn

i live a block from here and im shocked to hear of this as well... though, i agree that the area is pretty desolate and is probably a 'good' place to dump a body. thus, the chopping may have not occured in the area. and i like the 'quiet'ness of the area... though the loud rumble of the trucks isnt exactly serene... but still - it's scary to think that this could happen in my neighborhood. and i can attest that the area is heavily Hasid, but in the area there is a good mix of african american, hasid, and hispanic [and i'm asian!]. and don't forget that the Marcy projects are nearby - and also gentrification-magnet-Pratters too. coulda been any of them!

whitecastlerock

I always heard it cost an arm and a leg to live in Brooklyn...

Matt Joyce

You win sir.

iamdmg

that block looks like the perfect spot to dump a body...that whole area looks shady. Its all businesses that are probably shuttered up all weekend.

Kaylee

iamdmg: have you been in the neighborhood? It's actually not that bad. I live two blocks from here and it's super quiet without all the craziness of Manhattan. It's a pretty big shock to someone who lives in the area and is used to quiet streets, cute furniture warehouses and industrial shops.

hunter.blatherer

The operative phrase there is "super quiet." F'd up things happen in sleepy suburbs and quiet city streets.

Kaylee

I agree with you there.

hunter.blatherer

Indeed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/huntergather/3665300585/

Steven

Mafia crime?

Rocknrope

A Hasid serial killer? Smells like the plot of the next David Fincher movie.

hunter.blatherer

Also, the Hasid "cops" had to be shooed away from the scene and from interfering with the investigation - according to a neighbor. Sometimes they can hardly contain their excitement.

hunter.blatherer

A Jewish neighborhood, he says? And why couldn't it happen in someone else's neighborhood is the implication?

This is a very mixed area of Bed Stuy, where the Hasids have started to move in in bulk only in the past 5 years. Everyone around here was horrified by this yesterday - it's not as if that reaction depends on following an ancient desert cult.

JackoPaidOffVictims

"on following an ancient desert cult."

Seriously, what does Islam have to do with this story?

hunter.blatherer

Yeah, I can't tell them apart either.

faprilano

Gothomist - check your map - this area is clearly Bed-Stuy, not Clinton Hill. The area where the body was discovered is clearly east of Classon Avenue.

tazo

Actually, the location is on the border of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant. With Flushing Avenue being the shared border.

Clickety-Clickety Clack

So let me get this straight... Jewish people are the only people who would find this discovery scary and gruesome? It would make sense in a black, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, or other neighborhood? Some people are just too stupid for words.

But seriously, yikes.