Posted on 08/26/2002 5:52:39 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Fisherman Reels In Human Head FBI Investigating Discovery Posted: 8:59 a.m. EDT August 26, 2002 Updated: 12:21 p.m. EDT August 26, 2002
FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A Fort Pierce man out fishing with his son and a friend made a gruesome discovery in the waters of the Atlantic: a human head. Paul Trabulsy found the dismembered body part about 22 miles east of Fort Pierce Inlet.
The men used a gaff to fish the head out of the water and placed it in a garbage bag. Then they kept right on fishing.
"We didn't want to come in right away, so we just put it in a bag in a bucket. It'd been out there awhile. What's a couple of hours?" Trabulsy said.
The men docked and reported their discovery to the authorities about five hours later.
Federal and local authorities are investigating the origin of other human remains and a body found miles apart in the waters off Florida's east coast, officials said Sunday.
A body was found in the waters off Cape Canaveral Saturday, Russell said.
Medical examiners in Brevard and Martin counties took possession of the remains in an effort to identify them. It has been determined that the remains of one of the dead belonged to a female, Russell said.
"We have no way to correlate right now where these remains may have come from,'' Russell said. "We have multiple search and rescue cases every day.''
Russell said the Coast Guard was searching Sunday for one overdue vessel that may have come from Cuba with migrants aboard, but stressed that it was too early to know whether the discovery of the remains was connected to the fate of those aboard the missing boat.
FBI Miami spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said agents were investigating but had no additional details on the case.
"We have reports that people are missing from Cuba,'' Orihuela said. "We're just looking into it right now.''
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Years ago a man was missing and presumed to be a drowning victim.I was diving the lake at the time and when searchers gave up I moved into the area on the chance I might happen into the body.I was working on bottom anyway and it would have helped give closure to his family.
Turned out he had been murdered by his wife and was in the backyard all along.
Several years later,working on a river I met a man that had lost his father the year before in the water.I found out enough from him to keep an eye out in the right area.
A couple years later some people found one bone washed up down river and had the sense to realize it was human.
When the bone was seen to be modern,everything fell in place for the insurance company to pay off.
A man laughing his head off.........in the water.
One of the foursome steps away from the tee, looks at the motorcade, stands erect and doffs his hat in respect.
The others follow his lead...and afterward, one says "Gee, Bob; never figured you for such a respectful sort."
Bob replies, "Well, ya know, yer married to a woman for 26 years......................"
A year later he is golfing with some friends on the same course and on the 14th hole hits the ball behind the shed again. His friends examine the shed and one of them suggests that if they hold the doors open he might be able to hit the ball through the shed. "No way! The last time I tried that I got a triple bogey."
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