Property Inspection Finds Missing Limbs
New Zealand Police National News Release
13 October 2008
On Saturday 11 October 2008 at about 3.00 pm, Police received a call from a person who was viewing an address to rent in
the Waltham area. While inspecting the property he located a plastic container which contained a lower left leg with the
foot attached and a right foot.
Initially this was dealt with as a crime scene but after expert opinion that the limbs had been surgically removed,
Police dealt with this as an enquiry of a more general nature as to ownership of the limbs and the circumstances around
that.
Enquiries have identified the owner of the limbs and nothing sinister has occurred in relation to them.
Several enquiries are ongoing to confirm the situation as described.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Johnson states, "This was a particularly unusual set of circumstances which we dealt with
seriously until enquiries identified the owner of the limbs and the circumstances proved to be not of a criminal
nature."
ENDS