Cops stumbled on two severed heads in a Long Island park hours after other body parts were found nearby — and are now probing whether the ruthless MS-13 gang is responsible, police and sources said Friday.
One of the heads, as well as a right arm and leg, are believed to belong to the same female victim, while the other head and two arms appear to be from the same man, law-enforcement sources said of the grisly finds in and around Southards Park in Babylon, Suffolk County.
The man’s left arm, at least, still had its tattoos on it but not its fingertips — which “could mean the victim has a record and [that the perpetrators] don’t want him identified [through prints] because [that] could lead investigators to his killer,’’ a source said.
“These were brutal, vicious murders. MS 13 has been known to hack up bodies with machetes,” the source said of why authorities are eying the ruthless Central American-based gang.
“The bodies were also found near where the gang has committed other crimes,” the source said.
“The medical examiner will determine how and what they were cut up with.”
The first thing that probers have to do is identify the bodies because that will then tell them what direction to go in, sources said.
Cops are hoping that the man’s arm tattoo helps identify him, they said, noting that many law-enforcement agencies keep records of suspects’ ink.
The first body part was found by a girl walking to school with a group of pals along Siegel Boulevard on the east side of the park around 8:40 a.m. Thursday, police said.
She spotted the man’s dismembered left arm dumped in bushes.
The girl called her dad, who went to the scene and reported the stomach-churning find to police.
Authorities then began sweeping the area.
A cadaver dog found the right arm belonging to the woman “about 20 feet further into the woods from where the left arm [was found], almost in a direct line,” Suffolk County Detective Lt. Kevin Beyrer told reporters on Thursday night.
None of the remains appear to have been inside the park for long, the police official said Friday.
“Preliminarily, it appears it’s a matter of a small amount of days, if not hours,” Beyrer said.
MS-13 — which has had a stronghold on Long Island — is notorious for its particularly brutal slayings and dismemberments.
One of its gang members pleaded guilty in May to slicing and stabbing a rival gang member with knives and then chopping him up with a machete in a park in Greenlawn in Suffolk.
A few years earlier, a 22-year-old suspected snitch was hacked to death with a machete and dismembered by the gang, with his body parts found in Uniondale in Nassau County, LI.
