Horror as cops make morbid discovery by carousel in iconic New York City park
Human remains have been found on the shore of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the third time in a month that police have found bones near the iconic landmark.
New York City Police Department officers responded to a 911 call about bone fragments along the shore of 10 Dock Street around 7 p.m. Saturday.
Video footage shows officers searching through rocks along the waterfront, opposite the famous Jane’s Carousel, which was built in 1922 and donated to the park in 2011 after years of restoration.
The woman who discovered the bones said she was looking after learning that other remains had been found in the same area the week before.
“I thought, how do bones get on a carousel? So I looked at the bricks around the carousel and lo and behold,” Brooklyn resident Huntly Cooper said WABC.
Human remains were discovered on the shore of Brooklyn Bridge Park on Saturday
A woman found part of a spinal column, police found a skull and other bone fragments, and another person discovered a femur and smaller bones
Cooper said she found part of a spinal column. Patrol officers found a skull and other fragments, while another spectator found a femur and smaller bones near the carousel.
The Office of Chief Medical Examiner has been notified and is responding. The investigation is ongoing, the NYPD told DailyMail.com.
On August 19, a parks service supervisor found a skull and several bones along the same shoreline.
Photos from the crime scene show members of the Office of the Chief Coroner placing the remains in bags on a rocky shoreline.
On August 19, a city Parks Department enforcement officer found a skull and several bones along the same shoreline (photo)
Others, including members of the New York Police Department, were subsequently seen searching through the rocks with cadaver dogs in an attempt to find more remains.
A woman told News 12 Brooklyn She could see the crew handling a skull, a hip bone and a femur.
A few days later, on August 21, a femur and some smaller bones were discovered in the same area.
Police told the local news station that both sets of bones found before Saturday belonged to the same person.