Badly decomposed body pulled from the Rouge River

WWJ-AM / WWJ Newsradio 950

An investigation is underway after badly decomposed human remains were pulled from in the Rouge River in the City of Wayne. WWJ Newsradio 950's Tim Pamplin reports from the scene.

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00:00We're along the lower Rouge River, that's the city of Wayne City Hall over there

00:03They got a nice little park over here for the kiddos

00:06What was found here last night was nothing anybody needs to see but a kayaker

00:10Unfortunately did as we walk across the the deck you see the river off in the distance

00:14they found the torso of a human being I'm being told it was an adult full-size and

00:20Then he called that kayaker called 9-1-1 got the Wayne

00:25Detectives over there and then this morning, Michigan State Police detectives came to the scene

00:30We're able to locate the lower half of this body the bottom half the legs and the hips

00:36Everything now has been packed up taken over to the Wayne County morgue

00:39Medical examiner's office their job is to now try and figure out who this person was and how they ended up getting here in the

00:45River a very very grizzly scene updates all afternoon on WWJ news radio

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