4 People Arrested After Body Parts Found Scattered Around Long Island

The investigation began after a student walking to school found a severed arm in a park.

Four New Yorkers were charged on Wednesday in connection with strange circumstances involving human remains found scattered across Long Island, the Suffolk County Police Department announced.

Steven Brown, 44, Jeffrey Mackey, 38, Alexis Nieves, 33, and Amanda Wallace, 40, were charged with hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a human corpse after more remains were located on Tuesday, according to a press release shared by the police department on Wednesday. None of the four have been charged with murder.

The investigation began on Feb. 29, when a student walking to school discovered a severed left arm in Southards Pond Park in Babylon. The student’s father called 911 to report the limb to police.

Cadaver dogs soon discovered a human leg “in a mound of leaves” in the western part of the park, then a right arm almost 20 feet away from the arm the student found earlier that morning, according to the press release.

In total, police found a severed head, right arm, left leg from the knee down, and a right upper leg on that day. A medical examiner determined that all of the limbs belonged to a 59-year-old woman.