before leaving that day, ronald cohen noticed that the sanitation workers hadn t picked up all of his trash. a note on the large steel drum said it wasn t removed because of its weight. cohen had no idea what was inside since it had been in a crawl space in his home since the day he moved in nine years earlier. when he broke the seal, cohen was overcome by a terrible stench. inside he saw what appeared to be a human hand and a lady s shoe. local police transported the drum to the nassau county morgue, where all of its contents were carefully removed for forensic examination. inside were the mummified remains of a young woman. there were also some plastic pellets, a green plastic flower stem with leaves, and a woman s