03-13-2012, 07:57 AM
JESUS!!
KHON
Honolulu police are asking for help in solving a mystery involving a child.
Police say a woman found fingers belonging to a little girl inside a dumpster.
The woman is quite shaken up by what she found.
She actually made the discovery a month ago, and police have been investigating the case ever since.
Gina Rose Vendegna lives near Kukui Gardens in Kalihi.
On February 2nd, she was passing by, and decided to check these dumpsters near the entrance to the housing complex.
"I look for bottles and cans to recycle and I give them away to the old people," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
She says she found a few recyclables, but also...
"I saw a plastic ziploc bag, which I thought were ginger root starting to dry out. I'm a gardener, and I recycle, and I thought I'd be able restore them. So I threw them in my purse," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Gina went home.
Then later that day, she took the ziploc out of her purse.
"I was drinking a soda and I knew for a fact those were fingers when I seen the fingernails. And people I tried showing them to tried telling me that it wasn't, that it might be monkey fingers. And I thought just by chance I'm going to call the Police Department, turn 'em in and let them decide," Gina Rose Vendegna.
Turns out, they were human fingers, that Gina found in the dumpster.
"They were preserved in a ziploc bag, they had been preserved. They did not smell bad they were preserved," Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police sources say there were six fingers, and based on lab results, police believe the fingers belonged to a little girl, about 2-1/2 to 4 years old.
"I was pretty strong as far as turning them into the Police Department until about the day afterwards. Then I broke down and thinking about the child. I'm a mother of five myself," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police have checked missing persons cases, questioned hospitals and Kukui Gardens residents, and have not come up with any leads on either who the little girl is, or who did that to her.
"I hope we get this person off the street. We don't need him here or anywhere," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police say Gina is not considered a suspect in this case.
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KHON
Honolulu police are asking for help in solving a mystery involving a child.
Police say a woman found fingers belonging to a little girl inside a dumpster.
The woman is quite shaken up by what she found.
She actually made the discovery a month ago, and police have been investigating the case ever since.
Gina Rose Vendegna lives near Kukui Gardens in Kalihi.
On February 2nd, she was passing by, and decided to check these dumpsters near the entrance to the housing complex.
"I look for bottles and cans to recycle and I give them away to the old people," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
She says she found a few recyclables, but also...
"I saw a plastic ziploc bag, which I thought were ginger root starting to dry out. I'm a gardener, and I recycle, and I thought I'd be able restore them. So I threw them in my purse," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Gina went home.
Then later that day, she took the ziploc out of her purse.
"I was drinking a soda and I knew for a fact those were fingers when I seen the fingernails. And people I tried showing them to tried telling me that it wasn't, that it might be monkey fingers. And I thought just by chance I'm going to call the Police Department, turn 'em in and let them decide," Gina Rose Vendegna.
Turns out, they were human fingers, that Gina found in the dumpster.
"They were preserved in a ziploc bag, they had been preserved. They did not smell bad they were preserved," Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police sources say there were six fingers, and based on lab results, police believe the fingers belonged to a little girl, about 2-1/2 to 4 years old.
"I was pretty strong as far as turning them into the Police Department until about the day afterwards. Then I broke down and thinking about the child. I'm a mother of five myself," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police have checked missing persons cases, questioned hospitals and Kukui Gardens residents, and have not come up with any leads on either who the little girl is, or who did that to her.
"I hope we get this person off the street. We don't need him here or anywhere," said Gina Rose Vendegna.
Police say Gina is not considered a suspect in this case.