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DEAD IN THE WATER
Police discover additional body parts at Coney Island Beach
Authorities confi rmed a severed lower leg was found in a jetty outside the New York Aquarium on July 11. Stefan Kamer
reopened to the public in-between
search efforts — before
the leg was recovered, according
to Martino.
“People were swimming
everywhere they wanted,”
said Martino, who frequents
the beach daily.
Beach-goers were not
thrilled to learn that severed
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BY ROSE ADAMS
After discovering a severed leg
near New York Aquarium last
week, police continue to fi nd
human remains in the water
off Coney Island Beach.
The additional body parts
were discovered amid rocks
off W. Fifth Street at 6:30 p.m.
on Saturday, July 13, cops
said.
A spokesman for the Police
Department could not describe
the discovery in detail,
but eyewitness accounts suggest
the entire corpse may remain
unaccounted for.
“My friend asked the cop,
‘Is that the body?’ and he said,
‘Well, sort of,’” recounted Marine
Park resident Jill Martino,
who said the patrolman
claimed he was carrying only
“a little bit” of the body.
Saturday’s grisly fi nd follows
last week’s recovery of
a severed leg , which police
scuba divers recovered on
Thursday, July 11, along with
a set of keys at roughly the
same location, according to
authorities
Offi cers closed off a section
of Coney Island Beach while
actively searching for the remains
following an early July
6 sighting, but the area was
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human appendages were, and
may still be fl oating in the water
off Coney Island Beach.
“So insane,” said Sam Ali
from Queens, who was lounging
on the beach with his
friend. “I don’t feel safe anymore.”
“I don’t think I’m going to
swim anymore,” added Ali’s
friend, Abdul Zaina.
But it will take more than
a human corpse to scare
Martino off the sand. A former
Sea Gate resident, Martino
is no stranger to the
ocean’s disturbing deposits.
In 2017, a live shark washed
up on the shoreline, and
two years before, a whale
was found dead on the sand.
Martino says that she has
also seen a stingray, a turtle,
pufferfish, and no small
amount of garbage f loating
around.
“Everything washes up on
the beach,” she said.
— Additional reporting by
Elizabeth Winn
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