Newark, NJ - Body Parts Found In NJ Park Were Those Of Brooklyn Man

Newark, NJ - Body parts discovered earlier this year in a New Jersey park have been identified as belonging to a man that lived in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn NY. Viktor Alekseyeva's mutilated remains were identified through DNA testing, according to Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

A County sheriff's officer discovered the body parts in January while on patrol. The parts -- legs, arms and thighs -- were strewn in four trash bags near an intersection in Maplewood. Soon after the discovery, authorities sent the remains to the State Police Technology Complex in Hamilton for analysis by a forensic anthropologist.

Authorities got a DNA match through samples that the victim's mother, Tamara Alekseyeva of Chelny, Russia, gave them, and it was a saliva sample through a cheek swab from her that provided the match.

The discovery of Alekseyeva's remains were the fifth time in a decade that a body or body parts have been found in the South Mountain Reservation.