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BODY OF BABY FOUND AT LANCASTER LANDFILL.


Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer

A dead baby was found Thursday at the Lancaster Landfill by an employee sorting through recyclable material dumped by a trash truck, officials said.

A heavy-equipment operator discovered the mangled remains Mangled Remains is the demo of the Welsh death metal band Desecration Track listing
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  3. "Festering Innards"
  4. "Crave For Rot"
 - apparently those of a baby up to 2 weeks old - just after 11 a.m. among cardboard and newspapers dropped off by a truck picking up recyclable materials in Lancaster.

"This has to be one of the saddest days since I've been in the business," said Doug Corcoran, division president of Waste Management of Lancaster, which runs the Lancaster Landfill. "It definitely shook everyone up."

Corcoran said the remains did not appear badly decomposed de·com·pose  
v. de·com·posed, de·com·pos·ing, de·com·pos·es

v.tr.
1. To separate into components or basic elements.

2. To cause to rot.

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1.
, but officials would not comment on how long the baby might have been dead.

Sheriff's homicide Sgt. Lynn Reeder confirmed that detectives were investigating the discovery of human remains, but would not elaborate.

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"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 its sex, its age, or its race," Reeder said.

Waste Management officials allowed some workers to leave early and blocked off the area where the remains were found.

In January 1994 Waste Management workers found a badly injured in·jure  
tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures
1. To cause physical harm to; hurt.

2. To cause damage to; impair.

3.
 state prison fugitive in a pile of trash. The inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. , Steve Brigida, had escaped in a refuse truck after hiding in a trash bin near a prison kitchen. Brigida suffered broken ribs and cuts from the trash truck's compactor during the trip to the landfill.

Brigida was serving a life sentence for trying to kill two California Highway Patrol highway patrol
n.
A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways.
 officers in 1987.
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