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No graphic details are given, but please take care when listening. Today's case takes place in the province of New Brunswick, one of the four Atlantic provinces on Canada's east coast.

New Brunswick shares a border with the US state of Maine.

In the south of the province is a tiny rural community

called Browns Flat. Located about 45 kilometres by car from the city of St John, it's a busy

riverside resort community in the summer, but in the winter it's a sleepy village. And on the winter day of February 13, 1984,

employees at the Brown's flat dump were moving garbage bags for burning,

something that they did about once or twice a week.

But this trip would be one they would never forget.

Two teenagers had been there foraging for valuables and saw what

looked like a human arm fall out of a bag. They alerted the dump employees and took off.

An employee tore the bag open and saw something even more disturbing, a human head. They didn't quite know what to do,

and some of the bags had already started burning, so the fire was quickly extinguished in case

there were more remains. The RCMP were called to investigate the grizzly discovery,

and immediately started the task of searching the dump to see if there were

any other body parts. They even used a tracking dog, a German shepherd named Fred, who cut his

little paws on some broken glass and wasn't able to continue. After searching for a few days,

the RCMP uncovered more body parts, although some were in bags

that had already been burned in the fire. The remains were sent to St John for autopsy and forensic

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