Workers find human heart in salt pile in Tennessee, triggering homicide investigation: "Somebody, somewhere knows" - CBS News

Authorities are investigating the find of a quality bosom successful a brackish heap astatine a Tennessee Department of Transportation facility. The lawsuit is present being treated arsenic a homicide, CBS affiliate WTVF reports.

Workers astatine the installation successful McEwen were making preparations for inclement upwind Thursday erstwhile they came crossed thing antithetic that was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium a quality heart, Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said. Officers were searching different brackish piles astatine the installation Friday.

The lawsuit is present being treated arsenic a homicide, which is present successful the hands of TBI to find wherever the bosom came from, who it came from and wherefore it ended up successful a brackish bar.

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The organ was transported to the authorities aesculapian examiner's bureau successful Nashville, wherever investigating of insubstantial samples confirmed that it was an big antheral quality heart, Davis said. The bosom had been dehydrated by the brackish and it was unclear however agelong it had been there, helium said.

Davis told WTVF that the installation was being treated arsenic a transgression scene. He encouraged anyone who thinks they mightiness person accusation astir what mightiness person happened to scope retired to TBI oregon the sheriff's office.

"Somebody, determination knows," Davis said.

Those who person seen the bosom picture the bosom told WTVF it appeared undamaged arsenic though it had been surgically removed.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation volition effort to way the root of the brackish delivered to the barn, WTVF reported. Morton provides bulk brackish for roads successful Tennessee and draws from astir 20 facilities crossed the country, but there's nary grounds the bosom came from immoderate of those facilities

Meanwhile,  a transgression laboratory is moving connected a DNA illustration from the heart, but it whitethorn present instrumentality respective weeks earlier authorities tin travel up with a afloat DNA profile, the presumption reported. Then they tin effort checking databases to effort to find who oregon wherever the bosom came from.

"Everybody's somebody's somebody, and astatine the extremity of the time it would fuss maine if I laid down my caput astatine nighttime not knowing that we'd done everything we tin for this idiosyncratic and this person's family," Davis told The Associated Press.

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