Category Archives: Dismemberment

Picnic Halted As Jealous Man Murders Pal at Turkey Point, 1939

(The Afro-American, 8/2/1930) 20-Year-Old Youth is Nearly Decapitated by Friend. What was intended to be a happy event when a number of former high school students gave a bathing party, was turned into tragedy when Robert Turner, 20, 2102 Division … Continue reading


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Another Trunk Mystery: A Dismembered Body Received in Baltimore (1887)

ANOTHER TRUNK MYSTERY. A DISMEMBERED BODY RECEIVED IN BALTIMORE. CHOPPED INTO SECTIONS FOR PACKING AND FORWARDED FROM NEW YORK BY THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. The New York Times, January 27, 1887 BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.—On Sunday morning a cheap looking trunk … Continue reading


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