A human heart has been discovered among piles of salt at a Tennessee Department of Transportation facility.
Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said that employees at the facility in McEwen, west of Nashville, were making preparations for turbulent weather when they came across something unusual that was subsequently confirmed to be a human heart.
The organ was transported to the state medical examiner’s office in Nashville, where testing of tissue samples established that it was an adult male human heart, Chris Davis said.
He said the heart had been dehydrated by the salt and it was unclear how long it had been there.
Chris Davis told WKRN in Nashville that the facility was being treated as a crime scene, and he said that he’d seen some crazy things, but this by far, was one of the most unusual crime scenes he’d ever been on.
He urged anyone who believes they might have information about what might have happened to reach out to TBI or the sheriff’s office.
Davis said that everybody’s somebody’s somebody and that at the end of the day it would bother him if he laid down his head at night not knowing that they’d done everything they could for this individual and this person’s family.
He said that he had 32 years in law enforcement, but he had to say this was probably in the top 5 of the most bizarre things that he’d ever seen, and that they didn’t feel that anybody’s safety was in question.
He said it was discovered in the salt where TDOT was preparing to attack the bad weather and harsh weather conditions that they have.
Davis said that at first, they believed it was a rock. The process of what salt does to that, it dries out, and it’s speculated that it could have been there for only a few weeks.
He added TDOTs on board working with them to try and uncover any kind of information about where the salt came from and when it came in.
Local 10 was able to get an overhead image of the search taking place.
No other remains were discovered at the facility after crews sifted through the salt barn.
Sadly there are horrific unsettling crimes occurring all the time, and someone got killed and lost their life.
The police may not have located the body, but this heart, whoever it belonged to had a family and loved ones that must be worried sick.
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