Catherine Rusoff
A human skull padlocked to an exercise dumbbell was fished out of a New Orleans canal, leaving police with a mystery on their hands.
The skull was found earlier this month by a man who used a red rope and a hockey puck-sized magnet on a bridge to pull things out of the water, police said in a report.
The report was recently released and obtained by The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. The fisherman also found a gun and pipe in the water on May 18, police said.
The 15-pound dumbbell was padlocked around the skull, which was “completely decomposed, with no jaw or top row of teeth,” according to the report.
The magnet fisherman flagged down a passing police officer after making the discovery on the Bayou St. Bridge.
New Orleans police had no further updates on the case this week, and the coroner did not say whether it had confirmed the victim’s identity, the newspaper reported. A spokesperson told the newspaper that identifying the victim could take months.
A police dive team and two cadaver dogs searched the coast and the area under the bridge last week, the newspaper reported.
Police are seeking tips from the public as they investigate the case.
In 2018, kayakers discovered the skull of a missing New Orleans woman in a swamp near a boat launch, CBS affiliate WWL-TV reported. reported at the time.
Magnetic fishing yields unusual discoveries
People who fish with magnets have made unexpected – and macabre – discoveries before.
Last month, someone used a magnet to fish metal objects out of a Georgia stream. pulled out a rifle as well as some missing belongings from a couple who were killed in the same area nearly a decade ago.
In March, magnet fishermen pulled a unexploded ammunition of the Charles River in Massachusetts, a few days later one was found in the same area, CBS Boston reported. The ammunition was turned over to the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and they safely detonated the explosive.
In 2022, a man and his 11-year-old grandson pulled two Barrett 50-caliber sniper rifles out of a dark canal in South Florida during an attack. magnetic fishing tripreported CBS Miami, and that same year, a magnet fisherman in New Jersey pulled a 30-pound explosive device from the Passaic River, CBS New York reported.
In Michigan, magnetic fishermen They found everything from guns, motorcycles, homemade bombs, pocket knives and World War II artifacts, CBS Detroit reported.
In 2020, magnet fishermen in England ended up recovering from a dead body of a canal in Torkshire.
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