After the discovery of a severed hand at a Windsor rail yard, police believe it may have originated from a different city.
After an extensive search of the Caron Avenue CP Rail Yard by Windsor police, officers found no evidence to suggest that anything occurred on the site and that the discovery is considered a secondary scene.
A CP Rail conductor discovered the female human hand Tuesday afternoon.
"I was looking down and thought it was a piece of wood at first, and then thought it was a goose's foot, and then saw the finger nails," Todd Morneau, a conductor with CP Rail, says. "I had to keep working so I just put it off to the side, finished working then brought it up for the police."
The tracks in the yard are connected to rail systems throughout Canada, the United States and as far as Guatemala.
Police believe there is a “strong possibility that the hand fell from the undercarriage of a train that was involved in a collision with a victim at another primary location.”
Forensic investigators were unable to obtain fingerprints as a result of friction skin on the hand.
