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Out of the U.K.: Father Charged in Daughter's Murder

By David Lohr

In October 2008 a group of children playing in the woods near Wishing Tree Reservoir, located near the United Kingdom's southeast coast within a few kilometers of the seashore town of Hastings, unexpectedly found a human skull.  Frightened by their macabre discovery, the children ran home and told their parents who, in turn, notified the police.  A number of thorough police searches in the days that followed turned up additional human remains, including a pelvic bone, tibia, an upper left leg bone that had sustained a fracture in life that had required a metal pin to hold it together, among other parts.  Each part was found in the vicinity of where the children had found the skull, and none of the remains appeared to have been buried...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).