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It was cold and damp on the banks of Loch Lomond on the morning of December 6th, 1999.

Specialist officers from an underwater search unit of Central Scotland Police were preparing to take part in a training exercise in the Highland Lake northwest of Glasgow. Locke Lomond is the largest lake by surface area in Great Britain,

spanning 22 miles between Central Scotland and the Highlands. The deep water at Roeddenon Pier reflected the sloping green hills surrounding the lake,

but as divers went beneath the surface, they made a horrifying discovery.

Welcome to Season 9, Episode 14 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Two bin liners were pulled from the water.

The soaked plastic clung tightly to the contents,

outlining what appeared to be a human limb. The bags were opened on the shore, revealing a severed

hand, a piece of an arm, a foot, and a section of a leg.

What started as a training exercise quickly escalated into a full-scale search of

Loch Lomond.

In the days that followed another arm with the hand attached, a lower leg with the foot attached,

and other pieces of severed limbs were found in 15 feet of water close to Roa Denon Pier.

The body parts seemed to have been disposed of, not unusual fishing areas, but in locations used for other activities such as police diving training.

An incident room was set up at the scene.

Lead investigator, Detective Superintendent Douglas Nielsen told the press,

had our diving unit not happened across these limbs,

they might never have been found,

and that is possibly what the person or people who disposed of them was counting on. It was a grim discovery for the divers to make.

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