CHICAGO — Police are conducting a death investigation after a man found an Amazon box containing an object that may be a human head on the West Side yesterday evening.
The man was walking his dog when he came upon the box around 5:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of West Taylor, according to initial information.
In a brief media statement, Chicago police said the man reported that he was “on the sidewalk and discovered a box containing an unknown victim’s remains inside.”
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is examining the recovered item today. Investigators there will determine if it is human remains and, if confirmed, try to determine who they are and how they died.
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