Murder?

[natloveskara]

Sorry for the click bait, but that's the conversation that my family and I had as we dug up today's find.

We were at a large local park, and I was making some sweeps about 20 yards of one of the trails that goes through a wooded area.

Got a good signal, but it seemed kind of long. Definitely too long for a coin and more like a pipe.

I dug down about 6 inches and found a footlong long something wrapped in a grocery bag. My wife said, It's a knife. The shape was right, but too bulky.

It was wrapped in a total of eight tied grocery bags.

I have to admit I was a little freaked when I saw it was a hunting knife.
But who wraps a murder weapon? Nobody. that's who.

So what do you think? Geo cache?

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

Good gracious, wrapped in multiple plastic bags and buried.....

Maybe it is time to make a good faith trip to the local PD.

 

[robfinds]

Think it must have belonged to, Jack the Wrapper.

 

[bill from lachine]

Maybe the local PD is the way to go just to be on the safe side.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[PaJim]

Clear it by the police. You don't want to get caught with a murder weapon no matter how you got it.

 

[Uncle Jeff]

sounds more like a prepper buried it and never found it again..

Besides, water destroys DNA.. and that things is so rusted there are no finger prints on it.. the police would just laugh at you ...

My goodness you people have vivid imaginations LOL

 

[MrMikeJackie]

You would want the "murder" weapon to rust and disintegrate. Not preserve it in plastic bags. Probably some amateur doomsday prepper hiding his cache of weapons for the zombie apocolypse.

 

[Eastcoasthunter21]

Clearly your duty as a hunter and I state strongly your duty as
A person call the police with exact location and anything
Else found nearby imo hh gl e/c

 

[Burnt Chimney]

Clean it up looks like an old K-Bar.

 

[RelicMedic]

There's been a case where someone committed a murder wearing medical gloves, dumped the murder weapon, rags and the gloves into a river in a plastic bag, and a years later when the stuff was recovered, they lifted usable prints off the glove. Turn it in...you just never know

 

[Brother Al]

Do we really know that DNA analysis is not possible? Really know? Also stab wounds are sometimes identifiable from knives in other ways. Proximity to the crime scene and many other thoughts come to mind....... IMHO

 

[Rivers rat]

I will say voodoo or black magic i found a lot in the Thames........




RR

 

[screwynewy]

You would want the "murder" weapon to rust and disintegrate. Not preserve it in plastic bags. Probably some amateur doomsday prepper hiding his cache of weapons for the zombie apocolypse.

"Prepper" ?!? I had to look that one up. Talk about a whacked bunch of people. Never heard of it and there appears to be a ton of them out there. I think I'd rather just get taken out quick rather than worry about how to survive a zombie attack. Now there's another whacked bunch of people. Sorry got a little off topic there.

 

[gunsil]

Clean it up looks like an old K-Bar.

Not an old KA-BAR, it is a Pal RH 36, sold largely in PX stores during WW2 but many sold for years after the war. Cool find!! Might clean up OK with some 0000 steel wool and gun oil.

 

[MrMikeJackie]

It's not a murder weapon, there was no murder and it's not going to help solve any cases. Clean the thing up and get some good use out of it.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Sounds more like somebody cached it for a later date, then never retrieved it.
If you can somehow date the bread wrappers that will tell you when it was cached.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Maybe that's where the serial killer lures his victims, where he already has knives at the ready.

 

[natloveskara]

Well, we opted to turn it in, although I think it was cached for layer, too. The police asked a few questions and said they would run it through their records. We think it was the right thing to do. I'm new at this and it creeped me out.

 

[texjim]

I would have done the same thing to be on the safe side.

 

[ScubaDetector]

No harm in doing what you feel is right. You never know. Nice story