I know it is a little early for lunch, but....
"Officials seek public’s help identifying body found on beach" by Laura Crimaldi and Faiz Siddiqui | Globe staff | Globe Correspondent June 06, 2014
SANDWICH — The mutilated body was found Wednesday night wrapped in a tarp and strapped to a dolly on Town Neck Beach, its head, arms, and legs missing.
It was clad in a blue T-shirt that read “I Got Serviced” and bore the name of a Rhode Island company.
The gruesome mystery stunned this Cape Cod community and puzzled investigators who asked the public Friday for help in identifying the victim. The body is believed to have been left on the beach between Monday and 7 or 8 p.m. Wednesday, when it was found by someone walking on the beach.
“We are seeking information from the public regarding this discovery,” said Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe during a press conference Friday afternoon at the Barnstable County Complex.
Calling the death a homicide, he said any of the wounds inflicted on the torso could have resulted in death. The usual methods for identifying the body, he said, were compromised by the mutilation.
The body was affixed to a blue dolly and was wearing black sweat-type pants and the blue T-shirt bearing the name of Cranston Windustrial Co., O’Keefe said. The Warwick, R.I., business specializes in industrial-size fire suppression systems for big buildings.
He said the T-shirt was produced about six to eight years ago and was distributed by the thousands by the company.
“The hope is that somebody might remember that shirt,” O’Keefe said. “They’re a little unusual.”
He also urged people to step forward if they recognized the dolly or knew of such a dolly being missing.
The victim was a black man who was 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, weighed 220 to 230 pounds, and had a 3 to 4-inch surgical scar on the right side of his abdomen, O’Keefe said.
Based on the condition of the body, O’Keefe said the slaying was “a fairly recent event.”
Police went to the beach Wednesday evening to respond to a report of a suspicious object and found it wrapped in trash bags and the tarp. They discovered the body after carefully removing the wrapping, O’Keefe said.
Authorities have said they do not believe the man was killed on the beach. He could have died anywhere in New England or even farther away, said O’Keefe, who urged people anywhere in the region to call in with tips if they feel they have pertinent information. “We want to cast a fairly broad net on this,” he said.
Jim Laughrea, who said he lives about a half-mile from where the body was discovered, said two Sandwich police officers visited his home looking for help Thursday.
“They wanted to know if we had cameras on the house that might have captured anything on the beach,” Laughrea said in a phone interview.
Investigators worked through the night to collect evidence and want to hear from anyone who may have noticed any vehicles operating erratically around the beach between Monday and Wednesday, O’Keefe said.
Officials with the Warwick company did not respond to a phone call and e-mail.
O’Keefe said officials do not believe this case is linked to the death of Dennis Ray Jackson, who was killed and his body dismembered last fall. Parts of Jackson’s body were found burning in November in a barrel near the Bridgewater Correctional Complex and behind an industrial building in Boston’s Hyde Park section.
“We don’t feel they’re linked because of some particular facts of our case,” he said.
Sandwich police said they have found no evidence of any danger to people living on Town Neck Road or visiting the beach, but extra patrols have been added.
The discovery alarmed residents, nonetheless....
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Also see: Police seek ID for torso found on Cape beach
Related: Monday at the Beach
Also see: Move over, plover; the beach is for people
The birds can have it.
NEXT DAY UPDATE: Tips pour in about torso on Sandwich beach
Had my fill of this story, sorry.
