DNA analyst: Muscle tissue delivered to downtown Greenville is ‘pretty unique case’ – WYFF Greenville

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C.

A Greenville County DNA analyst says the case of a piece of muscle tissue being found in a container in downtown Greenville is a pretty unique case.

Greenville police said they were called to the CVS on Main Street Thursday about a shipping container that appeared to have a piece of muscle inside of it.

The coroner said a preliminary evaluation shows that the tissue is not a tongue, but appears to be skeletal muscle of some kind. DNA testing will be done to determine if it is human or animal.

Brian Browning, the DNA analyst for Greenville County Forensics, will do the testing on the tissue.

Its a mystery. Thats the reason theyre trying to investigate it. They dont know, number one, is it human? And number two, where did it come from and how did it get there, Browning said.

Browning said he will take samples of the tissue, extract the DNA and then determine how much human DNA, if any, is in the sample.

This is a pretty unique case, I gotta say. Getting tissue samples in general is pretty unique for us, but in this particular instance, getting that phone call was a new type of phone call, Browning said.

Police said the container appears to have originated in North Carolina and traveled through Georgia before arriving in Greenville.

They said detectives are working to track down the container's origins to see if an industrial or other accident may have occurred, or if there's any other explanation for the tissue.

Police said the container also held other products, but none of the products were meat- or dairy-related.

The tissue was being taken to the Greenville County Law Enforcement Center, and it will be evaluated by forensic investigators, Kent Dill, with the coroner's office, said.

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DNA analyst: Muscle tissue delivered to downtown Greenville is 'pretty unique case' - WYFF Greenville