LOS ANGELES — Detectives investigating a decapitated human head found by hikers in the hills below the famed Hollywood sign discovered a pair of severed hands nearby on Wednesday, a Los Angeles police spokesman said.

The two hands were uncovered about 50 yards apart during search of Griffith Park, where two female hikers came across the head in a plastic bag on Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said.

The first appendage was located on Wednesday morning by a cadaver dog and the second several hours later by a forensics investigator who ‘thought something looked suspicious to him’ in the brush, Smith said.

‘We did find another hand, it’s the second hand. It’s kind of grisly,’ Smith said after the second hand was discovered. ‘We definitely believe they are related.’

The head and both hands were all found in the same general area about a half-mile below the Hollywood sign in a popular recreation and tourist area not far from Griffith Observatory.

All of the body parts were being turned over to the Los Angeles County Coroner for examination.

Coroner’s spokesman Ed Winter said that investigators there would try to take fingerprints from the hands to identify the man.

Smith said detectives would continue searching for […]