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Wednesday afternoon, July 9th, 1969 was a great time for fishing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The day was overcast,
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low 70s with a little drizzle. If you found just the right spot on Root River, you might catch a ton.
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One family out that day chose to set up near an old steel trestle bridge on 8 Mile Road. The bridge had actually been
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condemned a few weeks earlier, like shut down to traffic because it's basically falling apart, but that hasn't stopped
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people from coming by, including this family. At some point while they're out there, their 10-year-old son makes his
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way down the riverbank to fish or just explore, whatever, but something on the water's edge catches his eye. It's hard
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to tell what it is from afar, just looks like this weird lumpy pile of something,
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but definitely not natural to the river. Any kid would be curious. So, he inches his way closer and closer,
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but he stops himself when he realizes what he's actually looking at. It's a foot.
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And it sends him running back to his parents, but the totality of what's there is so much worse.