Body parts found in sewer didn't belong to woman whose partial remains were found over summer
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Body parts found in a Detroit-area sewer in December came from a woman, but not the same woman whose partial remains were discovered in a nearby community's sewer line during the summer, police said Friday.
A DNA analysis of the two fleshy pieces found Dec. 20 by sewer contractors in Warren determined they belonged to a white woman, Police Commissioner Jere Green said at a news conference. However, he said, the woman's identity is not known.
"We are investigating this as a homicide until the evidence takes us in a different direction," Green said.
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The gruesome find of the pieces, which measured about 4-by-4 inches and 1 1/2 inches thick, is eerily similar to the discovery of body parts last summer in Sterling Heights, The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens reported (http://bit.ly/10QSerh ).
On Aug. 15, 10 fleshy parts approximately the size of a softball had become snagged on a platform used by workers about 60 feet beneath the road. An autopsy determined the parts belonged to a heavy-set white woman, and some of them had portions of a tattoo.
A check of FBI databases did not yield matches for the DNA of the body parts found in the two cities, and missing persons reports also have not provided clues.
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"It's an unusual case," Green said. "There is no investigative blueprint how to solve this."
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Information from: The Macomb Daily, http://www.macombdaily.com