Police find hand in jar at home of nude dancer

The Star-Ledger (NJ) ^ | 7/25/2006 | TOM HAYDON AND SULEMAN DIN

[wjersey]

As an exotic dancer at Hott 22 in Union, Linda Kay's persona was that of a dark and ghoulish Goth girl.

In real life, police say, her interest in the macabre was more than just an act.

Officers responding to a report of a suicidal individual at Kay's South Plainfield home discovered a severed hand in a glass mason jar of formaldehyde and six skulls -- all human, according to the Middlesex County medical examiner.

Kay, 31, was arrested and charged with improper disposition of human remains. She has so far refused to tell police where or how she obtained the body parts.

The skulls, which authorities suspect were purchased online, were found in an upstairs bedroom, South Plainfield police Capt. Paul Brempt said. Linda's mother, Patricia Ann Kay, said her daughter purchased the skulls from a mail-order catalogue.

A man at the home yesterday, Jason Lafontaine, said Kay and Sean McDonough, who owned the house with Kay, got the hand from a friend who worked at a medical examiner's office.

[wjersey]

Only in NJ

[johnny7]

kewl!

[Tijeras_Slim]

And they say all the good ones are taken!

[CholeraJoe]

You can't make up $hit like this!

[frithguild]

"As a dancer, Linda had a lot of fans, and this med student who now lives in California gave her the hand," said Leipow, who said she left the home several months ago. The condition of the hand suggested it had been cut off crudely, not surgically, according to a police report, which also noted there were bone fragments in the jar.

So what's wrong with a little hand job for a tip?

[NonValueAdded]

"I told him if he touched me like that one more time ..."

[Sax]

Someone grabbed for the cookie and wound up with their hand in her cookie jar, and she was caught with it there??

[Mr. Brightside]

Was there hair on the palm?

[CougarGA7]

They say she was pretty handy.

[sully777]

"As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that it was very pleasurtable, until I realized it wasn’t a nectarine at all, but a human head!"

[dirtboy]

It's the hand of the guy who tried to tip her with a roll of nickels...

[Slings and Arrows]

She wasn't happy when somebody gave her the finger.

[pissant]

That was a genrous tip....but it could have been worse.

[GSWarrior]

It's reassuring to learn that young people are carrying on the tradition of home canning!

[Slings and Arrows]

That was a genrous tip....but it could have been worse.

...as the mohel said to the rabbi.

[pissant]

LOL! Yep.

[dfwgator]

"Let's give the little lady a hand."


"Which one?"

[cjshapi]

Scary pole dancer ping.

[Liberty Valance]

[Junior]

Well, ya gotta hand it to her.