that their lovely melody had an ominous sonority in the lower register , and that right at this moment both she and nina might be looking at water which held the cumulative bodies and body parts of the toddler thrown in by his own mother ; the missing little girl from chinatown floating under a pier ; the body of a woman found under the brooklyn bridge by two joggers ; the parents stuffed in a shopping bag by their teenage children and shoved into the deep tides ; the crew member who slipped off a barge near the statue of liberty ; the steel worker who fell from a bridge ; the kid swimming off sharp rocks who never came up ; the foolish man swept away after he dived in to retrieve the disposable camera he accidentally dropped in the water at the south street seaport pier ; the drunken high school student on prom night who jumped off a sightseeing boat on a dare ; the man drowned on new years eve ; the suicides from ferries , piers , bridges ; the severed foot found by a dockworker ; the soaking suitcase with a dismembered woman , and the smiley faces left on the rocks where a serial killer dumped his victims into the river .