Police Need Help Identifying Human Remains
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) - Divers dipping below the surface in the canal behind homes around NE 26th Street and Federal Highway right on the border of Fort Lauderdale and Wilton Manors. They're hunting for a gruesome find. They're looking for body parts – already, they found a box full on Saturday.
Investigators say it was a hacked up body, with concrete poured on top of it.
"Who ever did this was heinous," said Fort Lauderdale Police Sgt. Frank Sousa. "Who ever did this has no regard, who ever did this went thru great length to conceal the identity of the victim."
And so far, it's worked, police have no idea who the victim is.
"It was found here at 11 o'clock Saturday morning," explained Allan, who does not want to give his last night. The box floated up behind Allan's house, in the two thousand block of Coral Shores Drive. He explained it as a 45 gallon storage bin on wheels. He was shocked to learn what was inside. "Kind of weird and scary and concerned," he said.
"This is one of the shoes recovered inside of the bin," said Sousa, holding up a New Balance size 10 shoe, covered in concrete. Police are hoping someone will recognize the shoes – and possibly his designer prescription glasse, they were found in that concrete along with the body parts.
They figure the victim was a man – about 5'8"– thru 6 feet tall – and they don't have much more.
"That's why we're here to day showing you the glasses, showing you the shoes, in hopes that someone will recognize this as their loved one or someone they haven't heard from in couple of days," said Sousa.
Right now – investigators are trying to figure out if the victim was alive or dead when the body was dismembered. At this point, they just don't know – what is evident is that this case is like something out of an episode of a crime show – and it has police wondering who could be so twisted.
"I don't care who you are, we are all human beings living in the same general society, to kill somebody is cold but then to go an violently severe their body parts in the manor in which this person did, is just unexplainable," said Sousa.
Detectives believe the person was killed sometime between October 31 and November 4.
If you have information, call Broward Crimestoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
