What sounded like a routine episode of Bones became a ghastly reality when police discovered a 60-something-year-old woman beheaded about 20 minutes before another man leapt to his death in front of a Long Island Rail Road train less than a mile away.
And police think the two nightmarish incidents may be related in more ways than one.
Reports NYDailyNews:
Police made the horrific discovery of the woman’s body in front of an apartment building on Secatogue Ave. in Farmingdale around 7:55 p.m., a Nassau County Police spokesman said.
The body of the female victim, wearing only a bra and pants, was lying on one side of the street and her head was on the other, said witness Jack Imperial, 41, of Briarwood, Queens, who was taking a taxi to a meeting when he came across the grisly scene.
“The body’s feet were at the curb, the shoulders were at the middle of the street. The head was across the street,” said Imperial. “I’ve seen some gruesome stuff in my years of living … but nothing like this. I didn’t expect to see something like this, especially not out here.”
Imperial said his cab driver “got sick” after seeing the woman’s disembodied head and quickly sped away. The duo wondered if what they had seen was a seasonal prank, he said.
“I thought it was Halloween hoax. There was no big splatter of blood. It looked staged,” Imperial said.
Cops said the two victims may have been mother and son.
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