A disembodied human leg found on Bronx subway tracks could be the partial remains of a man dragged for miles that were then hidden for days, according to police sources.
Authorities were puzzled when a man’s left leg was discovered in the path of a northbound 4 train between the 167th Street subway stop and 170th Street subway stop around 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
The leg was taken to the medical examiner’s office to be tested, but authorities believe it was separated from a man hit by a train miles away and days earlier, sources told The Post.
A man’s body was discovered Monday, Feb. 12 after either falling or jumping on the tracks– at least 9 miles away at the Spring Street station in lower Manhattan, according to police.
Investigators say no criminality is suspected in that death, but they could not find the left leg of that man’s body during the initial investigation, a police source said.
Now investigators think a train could have dragged the leg along miles and miles of track up to the 167th Street stop in the Bronx, where MTA workers on Saturday were plowing the snow away and uncovered a human leg lying in the subway roadbed, a police source said.
Investigators can’t say definitively it is that same man’s leg, but they suspect DNA and blood tests will show it belongs to the same person, the police source added.
Authorities had not released the identity of the man in the Manhattan incident as of Tuesday afternoon.