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Britain's Mystery of the Bolney Torso Continues

By Joy Montefusco

It was a chilly day in October 1991 when warehouseman Colin Oliver, 62, made what has been remembered as one of Sussex's most gruesome and macabre discoveries in undergrowth just off Broxmead Lane, in Bolney, near Haywards Heath. There, Oliver found the blood-spattered headless and handless torso of a man, who police later incorrectly estimated was in his 60s.Investigators believe the victim's head had been removed with an axe or with a bolt cutter -- if the latter, the crime would have been all the more grotesque because of the additional time it would have taken to sever a person's head with such a tool.  The cops also noted that the victim's arms had been broken, and that one hand had been severed six inches below the elbow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).