Body parts found in Milwaukee; police called twice in 24 hours
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee police responded to a near west side neighborhood twice in less than 24 hours – first for the discovery of a human body part on Friday, then for unidentified human remains on Saturday.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office told FOX6 that investigators, along with MPD, were called to the area of 30th and Lisbon after the body part was found around 10 p.m. on Friday. Investigators have not said exactly where the body part was found or what body part it was.
A few blocks away, near 31st and Galena, police said human remains were found. Around 6:15 p.m. on Saturday, FOX6 News was there as police began to set up crime scene tape near a park. The medical examiner responded roughly an hour later.
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Body part found
Neighbors told FOX6 that Friday night's investigation centered around the 31st and Galena Playground – just south of 30th and Lisbon. The park and neighborhood is within the jurisdiction of the police department, but the sheriff's office said it is also involved in the investigation. Police blocked off and canvassed an alley and the park and were searching well past midnight, neighbors said.
"It’s just shocking," said resident Priscilla Bryant. "What is really going on over here? This neighborhood is supposed to be peaceful."
Medical examiner at scene near 31st and Galena
Missing woman's family
Around 6:15 p.m. on Saturday, police began to set up crime scene tape at the park – the same area where neighbors said police assembled late Friday night. The medical examiner then arrived at the scene around 7:15 p.m. Police later said it was due to the discovery of human remains.
Relatives of a missing woman told FOX6 News they found her blanket – which has a picture of her face on it – in a wooded area near the park on Saturday. That woman, 19-year-old Sade Robinson, was last seen in the Brewers Hill neighborhood on April 1. It was an unusual sign that immediately alerted her family.
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"Thanks to these people out here, we found a little more evidence, but we still don’t know everything," said David Scarbrough, Robinson's uncle, who joined other family members at the scene. "You have to prepare for the worst and pray for the best; and worst-case scenario, Sade’s not with us anymore."
Scarbrough told FOX6 that his niece's car was found torched in the same neighborhood on Tuesday night.
FOX6 reached out to MPD and the sheriff's office but did not hear back by Saturday's deadline for this story. Authorities have not said whether the scenes on Friday night and Saturday are related, or whether either is connected to Robinson's disappearance.
Human leg found in Cudahy, person of interest in custody
A person of interest is in custody after a severed human leg was found at Warnimont Park in Cudahy on Tuesday, April 2.
Leg found in Cudahy
It is the second time in less than a week that law enforcement has investigated a body part found in Milwaukee County; a severed human leg was found at Warnimont Park in Cudahy on Tuesday.
The sheriff's office said someone found the leg along Lake Michigan at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
On Thursday afternoon, the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office searched a home on the city's south side, near 39th and Oklahoma, in connection to what it called a homicide investigation. The sheriff's office also said a person of interest is in custody, but that person has not been charged with a crime.
Editor's note: MPD did not confirm unidentified human remains were found until after the video above aired on FOX6 News at 10.