Natasha Leigh

A dog brought home a bone that led to the discovery of a murdered girl and an unsolved case riddled with false accusations.   On September 19th 1972 in Springfield, New Jersey a dog took itself out into the woods, only to return with a ‘large bone’. As most dogs do, the little friend was laid in the front yard of its apartment building, playing with the bone. The owner noticed her dog playing and went to check on them, making sure nothing was wrong. She screamed when she realised that what she thought was simply a bone was actually a human forearm. She called the police instantly. When the attending officers arrived she led them around to the back door of her apartment. There she handed over a bluish bag with a lower left arm that the attending officer noted as having ‘off-whitish nail polish’. Search parties went out into the Houdille Quarry just behind the building, trying to find where the dog could have gotten a human limb. That same day the search parties found t...