One set of officers found his arms and set them aside.

I was on the dive team, so we go collect his remains.

While we check on his condition, we notice the brain is missing.

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This was me flipping up his scalp and taking a peek inside to find nothing there.

Its very strange to look for something very important and not find it.

Anyway, we bag him up and get him on the boat.

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Our supervisor tells us we have to at least look for his brains.

So we dive and look around, but the only thing we find is a piece of skull.

And we had decided if we did find it, none of us wanted to grab it.

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No_Im_Random_Coffee

2.

He said he had important information to pass to president Obama.

I ended up having to detain him, stop the bleeding and then involuntarily commit him.

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Turned out to be a local college kid, going through some mental health issues.

Ive field interviewed hundreds of White House callers but this kid took the cake.

ctmacdon84

3.

Alerts are in place for the missing peoples credit cards.

The fathers credit card hits on a purchase at a jewelry store where an engagement ring was purchased.

It leads us to the son who made the purchase of the ring.

Son is questioned and confessed to killing both parents and burying them in shallow graves.

The son led us to the grave site and we began the process of recovery.

thisisnotmylocker24

4.

The kicker was, she was talking the whole time and her tone or volume never changed.

The pain never bothered her.

Or, more likely, she never felt it.

The human mind is scary as fuck.

5uhoh

5.

Hispanic male in his early 20s left a note and decided to take a nap on the tracks.

It was a mess.

I mean a real horror show of a mess.

So we are working like crazy to get everything in order so we can release the train.

Well, and this is the creepy part, the family claimed we missed some things out there.

Personal property of the deceased.

We searched for it and never found it.

At this point its just gone.

Disappeared into thin air.

Well this guys little brother is a 17 year old kid with a chip on his shoulder.

He goes out there at night a few hours after we clear to look for himself.

You could still see the blood stains on the shale.

Thats some Final Destination shit.

k00ni3

6. in between thud noises.

He didnt respond to anything I said.

Turns out, those thuds were the sounds of him chopping off his fingers with a meat cleaver.

Had a Good Samaritan call about a guy pulled up in front of a medical center in his car.

He had a travel blender plugged into his vehicle and he was bleeding heavily.

He had chopped his dick off and put it in the blender.

I didnt believe her.

milkcustard

7.

Her jaw was completely missing from her face

It was a stormy night on the Oregon Coast.

A lady was driving drunk and ran into the back of a parked school bus.

When she did, her car caught on fire, but she was able to escape.

When she turned around, her lower jaw was gone, and she was totally dazed.

Her tongue was sticking straight out the top of her neck, and she was trying to talk.

She ended up surviving but needed tons of plastic surgery.

tallfescue1983

8.

We got a call late one night to assist rescue at a townhouse complex for a woman hemorrhaging.

We didnt show up until rescue had already left with the patient.

So we let ourselves into the residence and eventually found the bathroom, which was COVERED in blood.

Blood on the walls, all over the toilet, everywhere.

CRAZY amount of blood.

Rescue hadnt mentioned anything suspicious on the radio, so this was surprising.

We gathered at the dumpster, lifted up the top, and lit up the interior with our flashlights.

cop1152

9.

I found a pedophile with baby sex dolls hidden in his home

Ex-cop.

I worked in a High Tech Task force agency conducting computer forensics investigations.

Lots of child porn.

Anyways, we were doing a multi-agency search warrant sweep in large metro area in California.

Some of the heads were removed and scattered on the floor.

This guy had serious issues.

smw2102

10.

He murdered his step-father and stabbed his grandmother through the eye

Man this was probably 2010, 2011…

I was really new.

He missed her brain by about an eighth of an inch, so she did not die.

We caught the guy in a stroke of pure luck.

Elderly woman with a massive hunting knife for an eye, definitely the creepiest thing I can remember seeing.

Aardvark1292

11.

There was like 6-8 inches of water in the pool and the call came from their dad.

They never could charge the man but it is widely believed that he killed his two sons.

rkanemvp1

12.

He was the first responder to an accident.

A truckload of farm workers were coming back from the fields.

My FIL held her as she moaned and eventually died in his arms.

He says he still hears her sounds in his head all these years later.

squirrel-phone

13.

So a patrol car swings around to see whats up.

Goddamn, turns out the kid was telling the truth!

Tower-Union

14.

He slit his elbows and the blood went everywhere

Not a cop, but a correctional officer in Texas.

One time a guy slit the forearm side of his elbows (where it bends).

He laid there in a big puddle of his own blood.

I was one of the responders that day.

Ill never forget it.

As soon as you entered the cell, the smell just hit you.

Blood has a strong metallic smell, which I never realized before.

Hed been laying there awhile, so the blood had coagulated which again, I did not expect.

Were not really medically trained, so all of it was completely surprising to me.

iceman2kx

15.

Going through the neighborhood each of the roads ends at a small two lane road that surrounds the lake.

I back up to see what it was and I see a guy hanging.

CaribbeanLounger

16.

I held an infants corpse

I responded to a report of an unresponsive infant.

I found the baby in the back room laying on her back on a bare mattress.

I started CPR, but realized the baby was probably already deceased.

We rushed her out to the arriving ambulance hoping they had a way to bring her back.

I just smiled, but it killed me inside.

I lounged around the morgue for about an hour waiting.

My young daughter was in daycare, and my wife at work.

I really needed to hold both of them, so the house felt incredibly empty.

I didnt get any sleep at all before going back in for the next shift later that night.

JazzieFizzle13

17.

I couldnt find his dead body

Went to a welfare check.

I go and look around and find no footprints or tire marks in the snow (recent storm).

I check the garage and nothing.

Thats when I realized this was now a dead body search.

I looked everywhere in and outside the house and around the garage.

I call all recent numbers on his phone and no ones heard from him.

Only so much I can do so I issue a BOL and we start getting NCIC paperwork ready.

Next day the day shift officer goes over to follow up.

jjm295

18.

He tried to escape from his handcuffs

Detention Officer at a local jail here.

At one point he looks up at my coworker and says, Would you blame me for it?

For whatever reason this set the guy off.

He leaps off the bench and we both push him back down.

This motherfucker was STRONG.

I swear the bench was about to come up off the concrete when he first leapt at us.

Once my coworker gets handcuffs on him, we take a step back.

Im not Catholic but I was very tempted to cross myself.

The screaming, head throwing back and eye rolling continue on for about 45 minutes.

moocowboocow

19.

As we walk around the side of the house we notice a lot of flies on the windows.

We head back to the front and attempt to make entry.

From the dates of the packages We concluded that she had been gone about two months.

Once we did make entry into the house I was allowed inside.

After two months she didnt even look like a human corpse.

Ill never forget the smell when the coroners moved her and she popped.

It was like a physical presence.

Whatever those people get paid to deal with that shit, its not enough.

NotATroll4

20.

Guy just kind of sat around after.

When they got there he just went into custody without any fight.

The dude had no expression or emotion.

Like a real life Dexter.

Another time some tornado ripped through a trailer park back in the 90s and there were bodies in trees.

LITER_OF_FARVA

21.

I saw his skeleton inside of a burnt up car

I once went to a two fatality car crash.

The cars had collided head on in a 55mph zone.

I wont describe the rest of the scene, but the worst part of it is…

This was Christmas Day.

Not a merry Christmas at all.

chestersutherland

22. that was swerving and driving crazy.

He pulled him over, and the drivers hands were shaky and covered in blood.

olympicsized_starfsh

23.

I guess her and her brother were getting ready for dinner and the mom just shot herself.

Kids were sitting outside when he arrived, to this day I cant imagine Valentines Day for them.

But I know that is something that stuck with him seeing that.

hugatree0643

24.

I think it had the highest murder rate during his years on the job.

However, I do remember he told us one story when he was really drunk.

It opened, and the only person in there was a creepy looking guy.

I guess someone forgot to lock it.

Maintenance found them that morning, and my dad was a responder.

Again, my dad never told us stories.

eecb23

25.

I found a missing husband after he was already dead

Got a report of a missing husband.

Ill save you from the description.

AwaitingDeath

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