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Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The On February 10, 2003, contractors were demolishing a section of basement in a five-story

dilapidated tenement building located at 301 West 46th Street in Hell's Kitchen on Manhattan

Island.

The workers were knocking through the concrete floor in the building's basement storage area, which

had been rented to be used as a walk-in freezer by the restaurant on the 8th Avenue side of the street

level called rendezvous. The workers noted that in the far northeast corner of the basement

behind an old coal-burning furnace, there was a raised concrete slab that was six feet wide,

five feet long, and a foot high. The raised slab seemed out

a place and newer than the rest of the floor. One of the workers took out a sledgehammer

and smashed it and discovered that it was hollow. Detective Robert Hahn told ABC 7, quote,

One of them hit the cement slab. It cracked off and he discovered some material. I believe it

was the rug the body was

wrapped in. He started pulling on it and a skeleton started coming out. That's when he discovered

there was a body in there, end quote. What popped out was a human skull. Of course, a raised

concrete slab in the basement of a decrepit building hit a body, its murderer 101. The NYPD got the phone call about the

human bones in the old building's basement. Detective Gerard Gardner was on duty that evening and

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