So, a woman sees some garbage bags sitting beside her garage, and asks her husband to check on them… and he finds a dismembered body! If this had happened to me, I would have found some dog poop or rotten chow mein or something.
Here’s the story, from the Chicago Tribune:
Authorities today will try to identify the man whose dismembered body was found in four garbage bags in an Oak Park alley Wednesday morning.
The remains, described only as belonging to an Hispanic man in his 30s, were at the Cook County medical examiner’s office this morning, where officials also will try to determine a cause of death, an office spokesman said.
The grisly discovery was made around 9:15 a.m. when resident Harriet Hawkins pulled out of her garage to go to work and noticed the black plastic garbage bags a few inches outside of the main door of the garage. She phoned her husband and asked him to check on them.
About an hour later, she hadn’t heard from him and called again, prompting her husband, Warren Udelson, to walk to the garage in the alley behind their home in the 1000 block of Clarence Avenue in Oak Park. He opened one of the bulky bags, which was lined with other bags, took out a knife and cut through the layers.
“Finally, I get to a brown sock,” said Udelson, an unemployed engineer. “I looked a little farther and saw a foot inside it and I said, ‘That’s all I need to see.’ I called the police.”
Udelson had found one part of an entire body that had been dismembered and placed in the garbage bags.
Police said interviews in the neighborhood led investigators to believe the bags were dumped sometime between 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Oak Park spokesman David Powers said, “The initial indication is that [the slaying and dismemberment] did not occur in Oak Park.”
Hawkins and Udelson said the incident had not shaken their opinion that Oak Park is safe.
Oak Park police had no new information this morning.
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