NY - NYPD Digging in Brooklyn Yard for Remains of Unnamed Murder Victim, Nov 2017

[Gardener1850]

NYPD Digs for Possible Human Remains in Brooklyn Backyard: Sources

Police are searching for human remains in a Brooklyn backyard after getting a tip that an older person had been killed, dismembered and buried there, law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York.

A neighbor told an officer that an older person was buried in the backyard of an East New York home, the sources said. It's not clear how the tipster knew of the potential body, or how long ago the person was allegedly buried there.

Police brought cadaver dogs to the area, and the dogs appeared to hit on several positive indications of remains in the yard.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...bered-Person-Backyard-Brooklyn-455898423.html


Cops to search for grave of murder victim in Brooklyn backyard after cadaver dogs catch suspicious scent

The backyard of a two-story home in Brooklyn may also be the grave of a murder victim, police sources said Tuesday.

Cops were awaiting a search warrant to begin excavating a section of the backyard on Bradford St. near New Lots Ave. in East New York, where they believe the body may have been buried some years ago.

NYPD cadaver dogs picked up something suspicious in the backyard on Monday, police sources said.

The makeshift grave may be next to a tree, where some brickwork has started to sink into the ground, according to the building landlord, who did not want to be named.

Cops began their investigation when the FBI relayed a tip from someone who claimed to have witnessed a man burying a body in the backyard, sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...n-backyard-dogs-catch-scent-article-1.3616969

 

[LadyL]

wonder who the witness is and why it took years for them to come forward ... maybe a child at the time? or abused wife?

 

[Gardener1850]

Nothing found:

The search for possible human remains in a Brooklyn backyard came up empty, cops said Wednesday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-search-human-remains-brooklyn-yard-turns-article-1.3618958

 

[Gardener1850]

[h=1]NYPD finds knife but no human remains in Brooklyn backyard after cadaver dogs picked up suspicious scent[/h]

Investigators searching a Brooklyn backyard for human remains found a knife but no body, police sources said Wednesday.

They were going off a tip that a 62-year-old man’s dismembered body was buried behind the unassuming two-story home on Bradford St. near New Lots Ave. in East New York by a man who used to live there, source said.

But when investigators dug out the yard after the court approved a search warrant late Tuesday they recovered a black 4-inch kitchen knife but no human remains, sources said.

Cops began their investigation Monday when the FBI relayed a tip from an informant claiming to have knowledge of a former resident of the house burying a body in the backyard years ago. The corpse could have been buried there for many years — possibly before 2012, police sources said. A new landlord took over the building that year.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-search-human-remains-brooklyn-yard-turns-article-1.3618958

 

[tnith]

Nothing found:

NYPD finds knife but no human remains in Brooklyn backyard after cadaver dogs picked up suspicious scent - NY Daily News

Just a knife, or is only the knife appearing to be significant?

Said knife should have DNA on it if used as part of a murder or dismemberment, therefore possibly leading to ID of said victim sought?

Would cadaver dogs 'hit' on compost (bone meal).

New landlord or landscapers came upon bones and decided 'not my problem' & disposed of them?

And finally, our favourite:

Being as this city is famed to have been built up with landfills... is this yard at all on, or composed of, such soils & their varying uh, components?