Dive Brief:

• Not long after his right leg was amputated, homicide detectives knocked on John Timiriasieff's door to ask him why his amputated leg was found in the garbage. 
• In October, Timiriasieff went to Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, FL, to have his right leg amputated; instead of incinerating the limb, an unknown employee tossed it into the garbage.
• The leg was found by homicide detectives at a waste management facility.

Dive Insight:

After contacting the hospital and being told "they would provide no explanation for what had occurred" and also writing a letter to the hospital's administration that went unanswered, Timiriasieff filed a lawsuit claiming emotional distress. The lawsuit says what the hospital did "was outrageous and beyond all bounds of human decency … and utterly intolerable in civilized society."

"When we contacted the hospital, they claimed they could not give us any explanation for why or how this happened," Clay Roberts, Timiriasieff's attorney, told The Miami Herald.