Police in Phoenix, Arizona were asked to solve the mystery of a limb found in a dumpster.

From just a small body part, archaeologists, toxicologists, and DNA scientists pieced together

enough information about the victim to lead police to the killer.

On June 8, 1992, a man looking through a garbage dumpster made a frightening discovery.

A dumpster diver found a large plastic bag which he unwrapped, not knowing what was in it, and discovered this severed leg.

There was also a saw.

Phoenix homicide detectives, Rico for Gosul and Joseph Petracino were first on the scene.

I think the longer I stay here, more bizarre the cases become.

The waste management driver, Jesse Paine, told police he emptied the dumpster just one hour earlier.

The dumpster is right now, it's not where I left it.

So somebody pushed it back out of the way.

I immediately thought this guy, meaning the victim, has been scattered probably through other dumpsters in the area.

And now we're going to need to go out and try and locate the rest of the body in the other dumpsters.

Detected search every dumpster within a five-mile radius.

They were hoping to find more of the body to compare to dental records, fingerprints or missing persons reports.

They found nothing.

Although there wasn't much to autopsy, the medical examiner could tell it was a leg of a male Caucasian between 30 and 40 years old.

The presence of scars on the knee are helpful in that this person has had either trauma or surgery.

In this case, surgical-type scars.

He's had surgical intervention on the knee.

Initially, investigators thought the scars would help identify the victim until they learned how common knee surgery had become.

The muscle from the thigh of the leg was analyzed.

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