MIAMI-DADE – Police are looking for clues after a disturbing and gruesome discovery on Key Biscayne on Tuesday morning.
Detectives say a worker discovered a human head at 8:36 a.m. that had apparently washed up on the beach behind the Key Colony II Ocean Sound condominium building at 251 Crandon Blvd.
A section of the beach was cordoned off with yellow police tape for an investigation.
Miami-Dade Police detective Argemis Colome told CBS News MIami that it was not known if the head belonged to a male or a female, or how old that person was. He said the head would be examined by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office, and Miami-Dade Police homicide investigators were looking in to the discovery.
Bahman Amini told CBS News Miami that he had lived in the condominium building for 40 years and he said: “We have seen all things here but nothing like this what was found this morning, the head of a person. It makes us scared to go to the beach that we love.”
Alex Portuondo was visiting from Denver and used to live in South Florida.
“That’s pretty scary and crazy,” she said. “I have never heard of anything like this happening before on this kind of beach. I guess I am curious if they have any information on where it came from, if anything else has been found, if it happened here on the island or washed up on the shore. I guess I assume it might have happened someplace else and washed up here but I do worry because of this.”
Kristy Sippel, a tourst from New York City, said: “It is scary. I would like to know what happened.”
Pat, a tourist from Summit, New Jersey, said “I am curious about it, I guess.”
Marcelo Borrelli, from Miami, said: “This is shocking, shocking. You don’t hear a lot about that. You heard about drugs washing up on shore and things like that, but a head.”
Mollie McAuliffe of Miami said: “I have questions about where it came from, where the remains came from. It is pretty upsetting.”
