{"id":6947,"date":"2025-10-17T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6947\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:20:26","slug":"human-head-torso-found-dumped-in-trash-bag-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6947\/","title":{"rendered":"Human head, torso found dumped in trash bag in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A human head and torso were found in a trash bag outside a Brooklyn home early Friday morning, police said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The body parts were left lying on a sidewalk near 557 E. 21st St.<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/28\/us-news\/fdny-foils-fireworks-sales-in-flatbush-before-fourth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0in Flatbush and discovered<\/a>\u00a0at 9:14 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, 311 was first called with complaints of a \u201cfoul odor\u201d coming from apartment 6F before the call was rerouted to 911 to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remains were found in a package outside a home in Brooklyn. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>They were left on a sidewalk in Flatbush. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>Police responded and determined the remains belonged to a dead man, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The building super allegedly saw the boyfriend of the dead man dumping the bags outside the location before the body was found, sources said..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Friday morning. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>The city Office of Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n<p>The city Office of Chief Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death or who the remains belong to, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A human head and torso were found in a trash bag outside a Brooklyn home early Friday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,303,1873,4081,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-6947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-flatbush","13":"tag-human-remains","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}