page_title: Whitehall Mystery
section_title: Discovery of remains
hierarchical_section_title: Whitehall Mystery / Discovery of remains
caption_attribution_description: English: Old "New Scotland Yard", Westminster Viewers of old black-and-white crime dramas will recognise the red brick building on the right as the former HQ of the Metropolitan Police - before they moved nearer to the Home Office. It was, for example, in the opening credits of "Fabian of the Yard". On the extreme left is the edge of Portcullis House, new offices for MPs. Español: Anterior sede de "Scotland Yard", en Westminster. Las personas de cierta edad interesadas en las historias de detectives y de misterios, y en especial los seguidores de la serie de televisión de la BBC titulada "Fabian of the Yard" (basada en los casos reales que tuvo a cargo el detective Robert Honey Fabian), probablemente reconocerán el edificio de ladrillo rojo a la derecha, y lo identificarán como la antigua sede de la Policía Metropolitana, antes de que la misma se mudara a su actual emplazamiento. En la parte izquierda de esta imagen, se aprecia un extremo del edificio llamado Portcullis House, donde se ubican actualmente las oficinas de los miembros del parlamento.
context_page_description: The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder that took place in London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were discovered at three different sites in the centre of the city, including the construction site of Scotland Yard, the police's headquarters. The incident belongs to the so-called Thames Torso Murders.
context_section_description: On 11 September 1888, a right arm and shoulder were discovered on the muddy shore of the River Thames in Pimlico. The Times newspaper had initially suspected that the arm was placed in the water as a medical students' prank.
  On 2 October 1888, during construction of the Metropolitan Police's new headquarters, to be known as Scotland Yard, on the Victoria Embankment near Whitehall in Westminster, a worker found a parcel containing human remains. The female torso was discovered in a three-month-old vault that made up part of the cellar. It was placed there at some point after 29 September when Richard Lawrence, a workman, had last been inside the unlocked vault. The body had been wrapped in cloth, possibly a black petticoat, and tied with string. The torso was matched by police surgeon Thomas Bond to the previously-found arm and shoulder.
  On 17 October 1888, reporter Jasper Waring used a Spitsbergen dog, with the permission of the police and the help of a labourer, to find a left leg cut above the knee that was buried near the construction site.
  The head and remaining limbs were never found, and the identity of the victim remains unknown.
caption: The original New Scotland Yard, now called the Norman Shaw Buildings
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