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The Butcher, the Florist, and the Schoolgirl

By David Lohr

Thank the heavens that the crime you are about to read about does not happen often!  According to reports from various news agencies around the world, a 16-year-old St. Petersburg, Russia girl disappeared, at first without a trace, on January 19, 2009 while on her way to school.  However, it did not take long for the girl's body parts to begin turning up in plastic bags at various St. Petersburg locations.  The girl's head, when found, was also wrapped inside a plastic bag.  The father of the girl to whom the body parts likely belonged, and as believed by the police, could not make a formal identification of the flesh and blood remnants that he had once known as his daughter.  Police are continuing to withhold the name of the girl because she has not yet been officially identified, according to city prosecutor Sergei Kapitonov...continue to full post

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