Connecticut Police Searching Cases Statewide After Grisly Find

By RICH SCINTO (Patch Staff)

The search for additional body parts in New Haven is over after police and other investigators found two arms with no hands and two legs with socks.

The macabre discovery was made by a man and reported to police Wednesday, said Officer David Hartman, police spokesman.

New Haven Police have gotten calls from other jurisdictions about possibly related cases.

“Based on the little we know now, we have been able to vet these cases against the evidence and have determined they aren’t related,” he said.

Detectives are working hard to identify pending or unsolved cases that could be related, regardless of jurisdiction. Much of that will be influenced by the Office of the State Medical Examiner and the State Forensic Laboratory’s findings. The victim’s gender, age and ethnicity are unknown at this time.

Originally two severed legs were found next to a fence near the State Street Railroad Station on Court Street. They had socks, but no shoes, according to the New Haven Independent.

The search expanded and police discovered the arms in a plastic bag that was sitting on a ledge below the Chapel Street Bridge near Union Avenue. The area is near the train station, I-95 and New Haven’s harbor.

“After closer examination of the bag containing the arm, it has been determined there are actually two arms,” Hartman said. “Both are missing their hands.”

Cadaver dogs were brought to the scene to search the surrounding area for any other body parts. Officers guarded the multiple scenes overnight and the search resumed in the morning. No additional body parts were found Thursday.

Officials from New Haven Police Department, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department, Amtrak Police Department and Connecticut State Police were involved in the search.

Image via Google Maps of first scene at Court Street.