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Photograph of the "7 SKYS" insignia found on the suitcase which contained the woman's torso
Demographics
Sex: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White / Caucasian (news reports say she could also be Hispanic/Latino)
Estimated Age Group: Adult - Pre 40
Estimated Age Range (Years): 30-40
Estimated Year of Death: 1992 (news reports say she was likely killed on July 18 or July 19, 1992)
Estimated PMI: N/A (news reports say no more than 24 hours prior to discovery)
Height: 5'2" (62 inches), Estimated
Weight: 137 lbs, Estimated
Cause of Death: Homicide, cause of death unknown
Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: July 19, 1992
NamUs Case Created: March 31, 2008
ME/C QA Reviewed: N/A
Location Found: Hackensack, New Jersey
County: Bergen County
Circumstances of Recovery:
An off-duty sheriff's officer painting yellow lines on a newly-paved parking lot at American Color, a commercial printing business in Hackensack, found the dismembered remains of a woman inside a dumpster after he went to throw something away at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, 1992. According to an employee, the man "came inside [the building] and wanted to use the phone" and was "all upset."
Within a few minutes, a police officer arrived on the scene. He looked inside the dumpster and then went inside the building to make a telephone call, at which point employees reportedly overheard the officer saying "Female Caucasian torso; fresh." Inside the dumpster was the headless torso of a woman wrapped in plastic inside a piece of soft-sided luggage and a separate plastic bag containing the limbs.
On Monday, July 20, authorities interviewed residents on Hudson Street in the hopes of finding a lead that police could use to track down the person who placed the body parts in the dumpster, but came up empty-handed. The dumpster where the body was found had been moved from its usual place outside the freight entrance on Franklin Street to the sidewalk on Hudson Street on Saturday to prevent cars from entering the parking lot while paving was taking place. Employees had been working at the facility until nearly 5 a.m. on Sunday -- roughly 8 hours before the body was found -- and did not report seeing anything unusual.
An autopsy by the state medical examiner determined that the woman had been dead for no more than 24 hours at the time her body was discovered, meaning the perpetrator likely placed the remains in the dumpster some time between the Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Additionally, the body parts had no visible wounds, making the cause of death nearly impossible to determine. According to First Assistant Prosecutor Paul Brickfield, the autopsy "determined only that the woman was a homicide victim" and noted that due to the condition of the remains, authorities may "not ever be able to determine an exact cause of death in this case."
Without any leads from residents or workers at American Color, authorities turned their attention to the suitcase the torso was found in. Brickfield described it as a black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels, roughly 2 feet long and 3 feet high, with red stitching. Although police were unable to determine the manufacturer, the suitcase had a unique circular patch of black vinyl with the words "7 SKYS" in gold colored letters which had most likely been added by a previous owner. Despite a request for anyone with information about the patch or the suitcase to contact investigators, no one came forward and the case began to go cold.
In September 1992, the investigation started to pick up steam after authorities learned of another body which had been dismembered in a similar manner. Just three days after the body was found in Hackensack, the headless torso of a white woman was found in a suitcase floating in the East River near 123rd Street and Harlem River Drive in New York City. Her legs and arms were found wrapped in plastic bags along the river the following day. Both victims had been dismembered "with surgical precision and with an extremely sharp instrument like a scalpel or a hunting knife," according to Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy. None of limbs in either victim were broken, as is seen in typical dismemberment cases, but rather "both were cut at the tendons so that the bones would pop out of the joints." Despite the similarities between the two cases, no conclusive link has ever been established.
Inventory of Remains: Head not recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues
Physical Description
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinctive Physical Features: Linear scars on right and left forearms. Fingernails are painted purple and non-manicured. Toenails are unpainted. Estimated to have worn a shoe size of 4.5 W. Her legs were unshaven.
Clothing and Accessories
- Black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels and red stitching (roughly 2 feet long and 3 feet high). A circular piece of black vinyl with the words "7 SKYS" in gold lettering was stitched onto the bag. (Near the Body)
News Coverage
Elliot Pinsley, "Torso found in trash bin," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 20 July 1992, A1.
Employees of American Color, 275 Hudson St., said a worker painting yellow lines on the company's freshly paved parking lot noticed the bags when he went to throw something away. "He came inside and wanted to use the phone," said an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He was all upset."
Minutes later, a police officer arrived on the scene, inspected the trash bin, then came inside to make a telephone call, the employee said. Workers said they heard the officer say, "Female Caucasian torso; fresh."
Hackensack Police Chief William Iurato said officers had not identified the body, but he confirmed that it was a white woman's. "I've got 20 officers assigned to the case," he said. Iurato said he did not know how the woman died, only that "she was all cut up." Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy.
Employees at American Color, which does the printing work for The Star tabloid newspaper and other commercial printing, said people were working inside the plant until nearly 5 a.m. Sunday. During most of the day Saturday, the company's parking lot was being repaved, they said. The two trash bins, which normally are right outside the freight entrance on Franklin Street, were moved out into the street to block the driveway leading into the lot, workers said.
"I didn't hear a thing," said a woman whose front porch faces Franklin Street, less than 50 feet from the bins. "And I'm a light sleeper. It scares you."
Jim Consoli, "Missing-person cases studied for link to dismembered body," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 21 July 1992, B2.
Meanwhile, an autopsy conducted Monday by the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office could not determine the cause of death, said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield.
"It determined only that the woman was a homicide victim. And there is a possibility that they may not ever be able to determine an exact cause of death in this case," he said.
He said that the body parts -- a headless torso and limbs -- found Sunday in a trash bin on Hudson Street did not have any visible wounds.
The homicide victim appears to have been either white or Hispanic, in her 30s, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, and about 140 pounds.
Marah Shuman, "Bergen seeks ID for torso found in bin," Herald-News [Passaic, NJ], 21 July 1992, A4.
An off-duty sheriff's officer who was painting yellow lines on a newly paved parking lot at American Color, a commercial printing company on Hudson Street, found plastic bags containing limbs when he opened a trash bin on a nearby sidewalk at 2 p.m. Sunday.
[First Assistant Prosecutor Paul] Brickfield said the torso was found wrapped in plastic inside a piece of soft luggage in the dumpster. Another plastic bag was found containing the limbs, he said. All of the body parts were unclothed.
The Prosecutor's Office said the woman appeared to be in her 30s, about 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. She was wearing purple nail polish and had dark hair on her unshaven lower legs, officials said.
[...]
Authorities believe the woman had been dead less than 24 hours when she was found.
Jim Consoli, "Fingerprints sent out to help identify body," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 22 July 1992, B3.
"We have obtained fingerprints are are circulating them among New Jersey and New York law enforcement agencies," said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield. "But if the victim was never arrested or did not voluntarily have her fingerprints taken for other legitimate reasons, we will not be able to get a match.
[...]
He also said that tests are being done on the victim's body fluids in an effort to gain more information about her. They are slated to be completed within a few weeks.
"We hope they can reveal something about the cause of death and what the victim may have had in her system prior to being killed," he said.
[...]
They also had spent Monday night interviewing people along Hudson Street, where the dismembered body was found Sunday afternoon by an employee of American Color, a printing business, he said. But thus far, nobody has given investigators any leads about who dumped the body, Brickfield said.
Jim Consoli, "Probers hope luggage insignia helps to identify slain woman," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 23 July 1992, B3.
First Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield said Wednesday that the insignia contains the phrase "7 Skies," which his office has been unable to trace as an official insignia of a luggage manufacturer.
"Nobody seems to recognize it. Maybe it was something that was personalized on the luggage by somebody," said Brickfield. "We are hoping that by releasing the information somebody can help us out."
[...]
Brickfield said that investigators met Wednesday with authorities from Rotterdam, N.Y., and Mercer County, where other unidentified dismembered bodies have been found. But Brickfield said that there is nothing to indicate any of these case were connected.
Marah Shuman, "Butchered body is still unidentified," Herald-News [Passaic, NJ], 24 July 1992, A5.
The luggage, found in a dumpster on Hudson Street in the city, is a black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels, said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul Brickfield. The bag has red stitching and is about 2 feet long, 3 feet high and [omitted in article]
The bag's manufacturer is unknown, he said, but a piece of circular black vinyl is stitched on with the words "7 SKYS" in gold colored letters in the center.
Jim Consoli, "Are dismemberments linked? Bergen, N.Y.C. cases similar," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 11 September 1992, C1, C2.
[part 1] [part 2]
Investigators probing the murder of an unidentified woman whose remains were dumped in Hackensack in July have found similarities between the case and an unsolved slaying in New York City, authorities confirmed Thursday.
"The two bodies were cut similarly, with surgical precision and with an extremely sharp instrument like a scalpel or a hunting knife," said Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy, whose office last month had also found similarities between the Hackensack case and the murder of a Massachusetts man whose body parts were discovered in Burlington and Ocean counties.
The discovery of the bodies in Hackensack and New York City occurred within three days of each other. Both victims were white women, and their headless torsos had been stuffed into soft luggage bags. The bags were similar in size and shape, said Hackensack Police Chief William Iurato.
Also in both cases, the bodies were dismembered so that no bones were broken, said Hackensack Detective Sgt. Allen Ust. "Both were cut at the tendons so that the bones would pop out of the joints," he said. In fact, he said, only the spinal cord was broken when the victims' heads were severed at the neck.
[...]
Three days later, on July 22, the New York City victim's torso was found floating in the East River near 123rd Street and Harlem River Drive, New York City police said. The victim's arms and legs were also severed, they said. The following day, police recovered the victim's arms and legs, which were found lying along the river, wrapped in plastic bags, said Ust.
Photograph of the "7 SKYS" insignia found on the suitcase which contained the woman's torso
Demographics
Sex: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White / Caucasian (news reports say she could also be Hispanic/Latino)
Estimated Age Group: Adult - Pre 40
Estimated Age Range (Years): 30-40
Estimated Year of Death: 1992 (news reports say she was likely killed on July 18 or July 19, 1992)
Estimated PMI: N/A (news reports say no more than 24 hours prior to discovery)
Height: 5'2" (62 inches), Estimated
Weight: 137 lbs, Estimated
Cause of Death: Homicide, cause of death unknown
Circumstances
Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: July 19, 1992
NamUs Case Created: March 31, 2008
ME/C QA Reviewed: N/A
Location Found: Hackensack, New Jersey
County: Bergen County
Circumstances of Recovery:
An off-duty sheriff's officer painting yellow lines on a newly-paved parking lot at American Color, a commercial printing business in Hackensack, found the dismembered remains of a woman inside a dumpster after he went to throw something away at around 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, 1992. According to an employee, the man "came inside [the building] and wanted to use the phone" and was "all upset."
Within a few minutes, a police officer arrived on the scene. He looked inside the dumpster and then went inside the building to make a telephone call, at which point employees reportedly overheard the officer saying "Female Caucasian torso; fresh." Inside the dumpster was the headless torso of a woman wrapped in plastic inside a piece of soft-sided luggage and a separate plastic bag containing the limbs.
On Monday, July 20, authorities interviewed residents on Hudson Street in the hopes of finding a lead that police could use to track down the person who placed the body parts in the dumpster, but came up empty-handed. The dumpster where the body was found had been moved from its usual place outside the freight entrance on Franklin Street to the sidewalk on Hudson Street on Saturday to prevent cars from entering the parking lot while paving was taking place. Employees had been working at the facility until nearly 5 a.m. on Sunday -- roughly 8 hours before the body was found -- and did not report seeing anything unusual.
An autopsy by the state medical examiner determined that the woman had been dead for no more than 24 hours at the time her body was discovered, meaning the perpetrator likely placed the remains in the dumpster some time between the Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Additionally, the body parts had no visible wounds, making the cause of death nearly impossible to determine. According to First Assistant Prosecutor Paul Brickfield, the autopsy "determined only that the woman was a homicide victim" and noted that due to the condition of the remains, authorities may "not ever be able to determine an exact cause of death in this case."
Without any leads from residents or workers at American Color, authorities turned their attention to the suitcase the torso was found in. Brickfield described it as a black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels, roughly 2 feet long and 3 feet high, with red stitching. Although police were unable to determine the manufacturer, the suitcase had a unique circular patch of black vinyl with the words "7 SKYS" in gold colored letters which had most likely been added by a previous owner. Despite a request for anyone with information about the patch or the suitcase to contact investigators, no one came forward and the case began to go cold.
In September 1992, the investigation started to pick up steam after authorities learned of another body which had been dismembered in a similar manner. Just three days after the body was found in Hackensack, the headless torso of a white woman was found in a suitcase floating in the East River near 123rd Street and Harlem River Drive in New York City. Her legs and arms were found wrapped in plastic bags along the river the following day. Both victims had been dismembered "with surgical precision and with an extremely sharp instrument like a scalpel or a hunting knife," according to Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy. None of limbs in either victim were broken, as is seen in typical dismemberment cases, but rather "both were cut at the tendons so that the bones would pop out of the joints." Despite the similarities between the two cases, no conclusive link has ever been established.
Inventory of Remains: Head not recovered
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Partial remains with soft tissues
Physical Description
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Unknown
Distinctive Physical Features: Linear scars on right and left forearms. Fingernails are painted purple and non-manicured. Toenails are unpainted. Estimated to have worn a shoe size of 4.5 W. Her legs were unshaven.
Clothing and Accessories
- Black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels and red stitching (roughly 2 feet long and 3 feet high). A circular piece of black vinyl with the words "7 SKYS" in gold lettering was stitched onto the bag. (Near the Body)
News Coverage
Elliot Pinsley, "Torso found in trash bin," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 20 July 1992, A1.
Employees of American Color, 275 Hudson St., said a worker painting yellow lines on the company's freshly paved parking lot noticed the bags when he went to throw something away. "He came inside and wanted to use the phone," said an employee who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He was all upset."
Minutes later, a police officer arrived on the scene, inspected the trash bin, then came inside to make a telephone call, the employee said. Workers said they heard the officer say, "Female Caucasian torso; fresh."
Hackensack Police Chief William Iurato said officers had not identified the body, but he confirmed that it was a white woman's. "I've got 20 officers assigned to the case," he said. Iurato said he did not know how the woman died, only that "she was all cut up." Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy.
Employees at American Color, which does the printing work for The Star tabloid newspaper and other commercial printing, said people were working inside the plant until nearly 5 a.m. Sunday. During most of the day Saturday, the company's parking lot was being repaved, they said. The two trash bins, which normally are right outside the freight entrance on Franklin Street, were moved out into the street to block the driveway leading into the lot, workers said.
"I didn't hear a thing," said a woman whose front porch faces Franklin Street, less than 50 feet from the bins. "And I'm a light sleeper. It scares you."
Jim Consoli, "Missing-person cases studied for link to dismembered body," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 21 July 1992, B2.
Meanwhile, an autopsy conducted Monday by the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office could not determine the cause of death, said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield.
"It determined only that the woman was a homicide victim. And there is a possibility that they may not ever be able to determine an exact cause of death in this case," he said.
He said that the body parts -- a headless torso and limbs -- found Sunday in a trash bin on Hudson Street did not have any visible wounds.
The homicide victim appears to have been either white or Hispanic, in her 30s, about 5 feet 3 inches tall, and about 140 pounds.
Marah Shuman, "Bergen seeks ID for torso found in bin," Herald-News [Passaic, NJ], 21 July 1992, A4.
An off-duty sheriff's officer who was painting yellow lines on a newly paved parking lot at American Color, a commercial printing company on Hudson Street, found plastic bags containing limbs when he opened a trash bin on a nearby sidewalk at 2 p.m. Sunday.
[First Assistant Prosecutor Paul] Brickfield said the torso was found wrapped in plastic inside a piece of soft luggage in the dumpster. Another plastic bag was found containing the limbs, he said. All of the body parts were unclothed.
The Prosecutor's Office said the woman appeared to be in her 30s, about 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. She was wearing purple nail polish and had dark hair on her unshaven lower legs, officials said.
[...]
Authorities believe the woman had been dead less than 24 hours when she was found.
Jim Consoli, "Fingerprints sent out to help identify body," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 22 July 1992, B3.
"We have obtained fingerprints are are circulating them among New Jersey and New York law enforcement agencies," said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield. "But if the victim was never arrested or did not voluntarily have her fingerprints taken for other legitimate reasons, we will not be able to get a match.
[...]
He also said that tests are being done on the victim's body fluids in an effort to gain more information about her. They are slated to be completed within a few weeks.
"We hope they can reveal something about the cause of death and what the victim may have had in her system prior to being killed," he said.
[...]
They also had spent Monday night interviewing people along Hudson Street, where the dismembered body was found Sunday afternoon by an employee of American Color, a printing business, he said. But thus far, nobody has given investigators any leads about who dumped the body, Brickfield said.
Jim Consoli, "Probers hope luggage insignia helps to identify slain woman," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 23 July 1992, B3.
First Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Paul B. Brickfield said Wednesday that the insignia contains the phrase "7 Skies," which his office has been unable to trace as an official insignia of a luggage manufacturer.
"Nobody seems to recognize it. Maybe it was something that was personalized on the luggage by somebody," said Brickfield. "We are hoping that by releasing the information somebody can help us out."
[...]
Brickfield said that investigators met Wednesday with authorities from Rotterdam, N.Y., and Mercer County, where other unidentified dismembered bodies have been found. But Brickfield said that there is nothing to indicate any of these case were connected.
Marah Shuman, "Butchered body is still unidentified," Herald-News [Passaic, NJ], 24 July 1992, A5.
The luggage, found in a dumpster on Hudson Street in the city, is a black expandable nylon carry-all bag with wheels, said First Assistant Prosecutor Paul Brickfield. The bag has red stitching and is about 2 feet long, 3 feet high and [omitted in article]
The bag's manufacturer is unknown, he said, but a piece of circular black vinyl is stitched on with the words "7 SKYS" in gold colored letters in the center.
Jim Consoli, "Are dismemberments linked? Bergen, N.Y.C. cases similar," Record [Hackensack, NJ], 11 September 1992, C1, C2.
[part 1] [part 2]
Investigators probing the murder of an unidentified woman whose remains were dumped in Hackensack in July have found similarities between the case and an unsolved slaying in New York City, authorities confirmed Thursday.
"The two bodies were cut similarly, with surgical precision and with an extremely sharp instrument like a scalpel or a hunting knife," said Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy, whose office last month had also found similarities between the Hackensack case and the murder of a Massachusetts man whose body parts were discovered in Burlington and Ocean counties.
The discovery of the bodies in Hackensack and New York City occurred within three days of each other. Both victims were white women, and their headless torsos had been stuffed into soft luggage bags. The bags were similar in size and shape, said Hackensack Police Chief William Iurato.
Also in both cases, the bodies were dismembered so that no bones were broken, said Hackensack Detective Sgt. Allen Ust. "Both were cut at the tendons so that the bones would pop out of the joints," he said. In fact, he said, only the spinal cord was broken when the victims' heads were severed at the neck.
[...]
Three days later, on July 22, the New York City victim's torso was found floating in the East River near 123rd Street and Harlem River Drive, New York City police said. The victim's arms and legs were also severed, they said. The following day, police recovered the victim's arms and legs, which were found lying along the river, wrapped in plastic bags, said Ust.
