Gruesome discovery in torched car sparks a mystery in quaint waterfront Maryland town

Human remains found in the shell of a scorched car have led to a chilling mystery in a quaint waterfront Maryland town, according to police. The disturbing discovery was made Saturday night, police said, after a motorist called 911 to report a car on fire outside the Tropic Bay Aquatic Garden Center in Davidsonville, Md., a tony community about 40 minutes outside the nation’s capital. When firefighters arrived, they found a car engulfed in flames.Once they extinguished the blaze, they discovered a scorched human body in the passenger side of the car, police said. Cops are treating the car fire as a suspicious death investigation.

What was left of the body was taken to the medical examiner for an autopsy and identification.“That certainly changed our investigation from what appeared to be an initial vehicle fire to a suspicious death investigation,” Anne Arundel County police spokesperson Justin Mulcahy told WJZ News.“That’s where we’re at right now.”The gruesome discovery shocked residents of the small and idyllic waterfront town, where the median sales price of a home is almost $1 million, and the average income is $223,135.“My wife called and asked me if I heard what happened.

I was just shocked,” local Pete Best told WJZ.“It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would happen in a small town.”  Best told the outlet that he was playing a gig next door to Tropic Bay at the time of the discovery.“These kinds of things happen on TV, and then you go, ‘Wow, I can’t believe it’s right around the corner,'” Best said.

“It kind of puts you on your heels a little bit for sure.”The Anne Arundel County Fire and Explosives Investigations Unit is investigating the cause of the fire as detectives work to identify the victim – and determine how they ended up in the torched car, according to reports. Regular customers of Tropic Bay, which specializes in koi fish and water features, were surprised to find it closed the following mo...