A sign along the Schuylkill River Trail in Norristown. After a body was found hidden in the brush along the trail, Norristown Police and Montgomery County detectives investigated and charged a 46-year-old Norristown resident with murder. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Aubrey Whelan Published Nov. 15, 2025, 4:28 p.m. ET

The trash can abandoned in the brush by the Schuylkill River Trail in Norristown smelled foul — so much so that one man who walked near it on Monday couldn’t stop thinking about what might be inside.

An hour after he had first traversed that stretch of the trail, the passerby doubled back, opened the trash can, and pushed aside a blanket.

Beneath it was a human leg.

Norristown police on Saturday identified th

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