Fingers found in trash are child's, not monkey's, police say What initially were thought to be fingers from a monkey are actually those of a child, Honolulu police said as they asked for the public's help in solving the mystery of who dumped the bones in a trash bin a month ago. "I have not seen anything like this in all my 25 years on the force," KITV4.com quoted Police Sgt. Kim Buffett as saying. The six fingers were found in a Ziploc bag on Feb. 12 at the Kukui Gardens Housing Complex. "Laboratory testing has determined that the fingers are those of a child," Honolulu Police said in a statement Monday. The woman who found the bag said she was looking for recyclables when she came across the bag that she thought had ginger roots. "I'm a gardener, and I recycle, and I thought I'd be able restore them," KHON TV quoted Gina Rose Vendegna as saying. So I threw them in my purse. ... They did not smell bad; they were preserved. Later that day she noticed fingernails. "I knew for a fact those were fingers when I seen the fingernails," she added. And people I tried showing them to tried telling me that it wasn't, that it might be monkey fingers. And I thought just by chance I'm going to call the police department, turn 'em in and let them decide. The manager of the apartment complex was shocked. "I'm trying to put the pieces together," Kevin Carney told KITV4. We don't know if something horrible happened or if this is something that happened 100 years ago.