By Kari Huus, NBC News
The torsos of a man and woman, and later body parts believed to belong to the two, were found floating in Detroit-area waterways on Tuesday morning, the Detroit Free Press reported.
"This was vicious," Commander Steve Dolunt of the Detroit Police Department told the paper. "It looks like they were sending a message. It?s not just a normal ? if there is a normal ? homicide.?
A U.S. Coast Guard officer on a routine border patrol spotted one torso floating in Fox Creek, just off the Detroit River, around 6:30 a.m. local time, the paper reported. The second body was spotted about 45 minutes floating nearby in the Detroit River.
The Coast Guard handed the case over to the Detroit Police Homicide Unit, according to a spokesman who spoke to the Free Press.
The (Coast Guard) boat crew came across the second one as they were responding to the first,? said the spokesman, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Justin Westmiller. "Both bodies were found without hands, feet or heads. They were clearly cut off."
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Several hours later, a man fishing in the Detroit River called police to report a gruesome discovery, which included a white leg with polished toenails, two other white legs and a cordless circular saw lying on the bottom of the river in about 3 feet of water where the river meets Lake St. Clair, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The Detroit River flows from Lake St. Clair in the north to Lake Erie in the south, forming a part of the U.S.-Canada border.
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