On September 29, 1915, Joseph Miller, night watchman at a pier on South 11th Street, in the Williamsburg section of New York City, noticed two dark objects floating in the Hudson River. Scrambling into a boat, Miller followed the current and fished out the pieces of flotsam, appalled to discover that two baby girls had been thrown in the river to drown. A coroner's report revealed the victims to be less than two days old. Worse yet, a scan of recent files told homicide detectives that a dozen other infants, three days old or less, had been recovered from the Hudson in the past six weeks. Found floating anywhere from South 11th Street to Broadway, most of the tiny victims had been tossed in the water naked, to drown; a few were bundled up so tightly that they must have suffocated prior to entering the river, as no water was discovered in their lungs. Without a single clue to work on, homicide investigators organized a special team to prowl the waterfront by night, but they were flying blind. A spokesman for the force announced that someone in the neighborhood was "systematically engaged in the slaying of newborn babies," but a recognition of the problem offered no solution. With publicity, the grim parade of tiny corpses ceased. The case remains unsolved.