Cops investigating the discovery of dismembered body parts dumped and set on fire under a bridge in Yonkers used surveillance video to track the suspects back to a Bronx apartment building where additional remains were recovered, police sources said Wednesday.
The suspects were caught on video taking most of the dismembered body in a collapsible shopping cart onto MetroNorth, then taking the train from the Bronx to Yonkers, where they torched the remains, sources said.
More body parts, including two severed hands in a crockpot and possibly two human legs in trash bags in the freezer, were found inside the apartment on Rogers Place near Dawson St., in the South Bronx.
Surveillance video obtained by the Daily News shows two people rolling the shopping cart down the block on Rogers Place at 12:16 a.m. Monday — about two hours before the remains were discovered burning in Yonkers.
The cart is pushed down the sidewalk by a man wearing a baseball cap and a long-sleeved sweatshirt with a cigarette or a pen dangling out of his mouth He is followed by someone in a bulky hooded sweatshirt.
It wasn’t clear Wednesday if the video obtained by the Daily News is included in the video recovered by cops.
Cops are still trying to identify the victim and learn how the person died.
The victim’s teeth were bashed out to help slow identification, investigators believe, according to police sources. The teeth were found in the Bronx apartments, according to local reports.
Body parts were first found on fire in a shopping cart under the Oak Street Bridge in Yonkers about 2 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Yonkers firefighters put out the blaze and discovered the body parts inside the cart. Cops arriving at the scene quickly recovered video footage that showed two people rolling the body from the nearby Mount Vernon West MetroNorth station.
Yonkers police called the NYPD, who picked up the trail from there. Using surveillance video, detectives painstakingly traced the morbid trip from the MetroNorth station to the South Bronx and finally to the apartment building on Rogers Place, police sources said.
Cops executed a search warrant at the apartment around 11:30 p.m. Monday, where the additional remains were found. A pistol and drug paraphernalia were also found in the apartment.
No arrests have been made. Cops are still hoping to question the apartment’s listed 40-year-old tenant, who often rents one of his rooms out for extra cash, neighbors said.
Crime scene unit cops were spotted entering the building in white hazmat suits and blue plastic booties.
“I have 34 years working in that building,” the super told the Daily News Tuesday. “I’ve never seen something like that in this building.”
The police activity was also caught on video.
“I saw when the police go knock on the door,” the super said. “I saw them bring the body (parts) outside.”
Also caught on camera, he said, were a man and a woman who rented a room in the apartment. He said they came to the building in a car Monday before cops showed up.
“They go inside, open the door, go inside, looking for something and then they leave,” he said. “Somebody that lives there rents the room.”
It was unclear if the victim who rents the room was the victim. No arrests have been made.
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