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Inside the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant in Winthrop, Victor Lesperance, security director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, talked on a cellphone next to waste water exclusion screens, where the infant’s arm was discovered.

Officials seek DNA profile, try to trace path of severed arm

By Raja Mishra and John R. Ellement
Globe Staff / May 11, 2006

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The mystery of the 6-inch-long infant's arm discovered at a local sewage plant deepened yesterday, as nearly two-dozen North Shore police departments searched for the baby's mother while forensics specialists sought clues in the flesh, bone, and genes of the tiny limb. (Full article: 846 words)

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