[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] As a child, she had witnessed a body being buried in her backyard. For more than 40 years, the remains had rested there undisturbed, buried in a makeshift grave. The sensational — if grim — discovery is one of the rare moments when the reality of police work all but trumps fictionalized TV true crime tales. “We’d really like to put a collar on it,” said Patrick Conry, the director of the Police Department’s public information unit.

Source: New York Times March 13, 2019 23:48 UTC