
The Game's Afoot PT 1
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Mystery of a Severed Human Leg
In 1936, a worker with the Works Progress Administration spotted something bobbing in Boston Harbor. He didn't know what it was, but he could see that it was wrapped in what looked to him like a burlap potato sack and some green curtains. The police locate a second leg that is also wrapped in a similar burlap sack in green curtains and floating in the harbor same afternoon. So you've got at least two body parts so far that have been separately wrapped up and distributed in the water. And these are two legs in two separate packages.
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