According to Warren Weekly, the victims remain unidentified but the cases are considered related: "No matter what you say, you have to assume the two (cases) are related," (Jere) Green said. "It's a little beyond coincidence." According to Warren Police Detective Cpl. Mel Nearing, "We're not ruling out medical waste at this point."
But there is little hope of it being medical waste. If it is medical waste, it is the waste of a corpse and definitely not plastic surgery. The removal of several chunks of flesh 4 to 5 inches wide and an inch deep would kill anyone. Since the chunks were sliced up after removal, it was one big chunk of flesh initially and that would simply be fatal. I doubt that the waste could be from a medically dissected corpse either. First, the article states, "Investigators said it appeared that the pieces were cut with a sharp object but that they did not believe the instrument was specialty tool designed to cauterize an incision." Second, there is little chance of the same team of sewer workers finding body parts at two locations 4 months apart by coincidence. In fact, the skin chunks appeared in one instance the day AFTER they entered the sewer system. That tells you that someone put the flesh in the sewer system upstream specifically so that it would be found by this team.
Police are also now seriously considering homicide. I think, though, that they were probably considering it rather earlier for the reasons I've just stated. My guess is that someone is killing prostitutes.
