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Bizarre Incidents Of Beheading / Decapitation

A woman is being held in Moscow by officers after she wandered into a police station brandishing a child's severed head.

Reports in Russia claim the woman shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as she was held this morning.

Local media reports the woman was seen carrying the head near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the Russian capital this monrning.

Police then swooped and she was dragged to the ground by around half a dozen officers.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...a-after-handing-7463132#ICID=sharebar_twitter
 
Pensioner who decapitated his partner acted 'out of pure hatred'
The 69-year-old has said the deceased was 'not the housewife she used to be'
Jess Staufenberg

A jealous pensioner who decapitated his partner after she admitted seeing other men may have done so "out of pure hatred".
Demsey Nibbs is thought to have knocked his partner Judith unconscious before cutting off her head, trying to destroy it and flushing it down the toilet.

The 69-year-old admits killing Ms Nibbs but said he was acting in self-defence during a struggle, and was "out of his mind" believing she was a snake, the court has heard.
Jury members at the Old Bailey were told by the prosecution to "brace themselves" over details of the murder on 11 April 2014.
"Quite why the defendant decapitated Judith and then disposed of her head is not entirely clear but it may well be that he did it out of pure hatred at the sight of his wife's face," prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said.

The pair, who never married but had two children and lived together in north London, began to argue after Nibbs grew angry at finding she was seeing other men, according to their son.
Kirk Nibbs told the jury: "I heard my mum say she had sex eight times. That was the first I was aware. My dad was really, really, really shocked. He was really hurt about what she did."
Nibbs reportedly said she was "not the housewife she used to be" after she began working at Hackney Council and going out with friends.

His 60-year-old partner predicted her own death to colleagues on the day of her murder when she said she feared she might be dead the following day.
Colleagues described her as "happy and smiley" and "always bubbly, very friendly and open-minded."

Nibbs reportedly dialled 999 after attacking his partner to report "a couple of dead bodies" before trying to turn the knife on himself.
A nearby paramedic and police officer arrived sooner than he expected, however, and prevented him from doing so - although he was then not well enough to be interviewed by police for a year.
Nibbs, who lived on the Charles Estate in Hoxton, denies murder and obstructing the coroner by disposing of her head, saying he was "defending himself" in a struggle.

The case continues.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...r-head-down-toilet-acted-out-of-a6959106.html
 
A jealous man who decapitated his long-term partner at their east London flat before flushing her head down the toilet has been jailed for life.

Dempsey Nibbs, 69, killed Judith Nibbs, his partner of 30 years, after he became angry when she admitted to having affairs.

The crane driver, from the Charles Estate in Hoxton, must serve a minimum of 21 years.

Ms Nibbs was attacked with an iron bar in April 2014, the Old Bailey heard.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36072860
 
Severed head found at Cambridgeshire toxic waste site
It is understood police have been unable to determine if head discovered at facility in Mepal belongs to a man or woman
Jamie Grierson
Tuesday 17 May 2016 13.04 BST

A severed head has been discovered at a toxic waste facility in Cambridgeshire, police have said.
The head was found on Monday at 3pm at the Mick George Ltd waste facility in Mepal, Cambridgeshire.
It is understood police officers have been unable to determine if the head belongs to a man or a woman.
The site in Mepal operates as a disposal facility for asbestos, contaminated soils and other hazardous waste.

A Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman said: “We were called at about 3pm yesterday afternoon with reports of the discovery of a human head at a quarry in Mepal.
“Officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire major crime unit are conducting inquiries, both locally and across the county borders.”

Police are searching a site in Mill Road in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire – about 50 miles away from the site – as they believe this is where the remains may have come from.
The force would not comment further on links between the Mill Road site and the Mepal facility.

DI Jerry Waite, from the Beds, Cambs and Herts major crime unit, said: “At this stage we do not know if the head is male or female, however we have got officers carrying out searches at a site in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, as we believe this is where the remains may have come from.”

A spokesman for Mick George said: “We are working closely with the police and providing them with all the information they need to undertake their investigations. At this point we cannot provide any further comments.”

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/17/severed-head-found-at-cambridgeshire-toxic-waste-site
 
A New Zealand couple on holiday in Fiji have found a human head on a beach, the latest grisly discovery in an unsolved murder case in the Pacific nation.

In recent weeks a number of parcels containing body parts have washed up in Fiji, beginning with two pairs of human feet.

Police believe the body parts belong to a Russian couple missing from their farm on Fiji's main island since June.

Police and naval personnel are carrying out a full search of the area.

Police told local media that DNA tests confirmed the feet belonged to the couple, but have yet to receive results for the latest find. They have said they will not comment further on the case until the murder investigation is complete.

New Zealand couple Graeme and Jan Bickley had gone to Fiji for a week when Graeme spotted a bundle in shallow water during a walk on a beach. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36721242
 
An 18-year-old man has been detained after a gruesome chainsaw and ax attack in a shopping center in the Belarusian capital which left one woman dead and another injured.

“The suspect is a citizen of Belarus, born in 1998 and currently living in Minsk,” police chief Alexander Barsukov was quoted as saying by Interfax. “He is now being interrogated at a police station in the capital.”
The suspect, armed with an ax and a chainsaw, reportedly entered the Europe shopping center in central Minsk through a back door before attacking a group of young women sitting outside a pizzeria at around 17:40 local time. One of the women was killed while another was wounded by the chainsaw. To some witnesses, it appeared that the murdered woman may have been decapitated.

https://www.rt.com/news/362055-chainsaw-attack-belarus-shopping-mall/
 
Militia fighters in DR Congo have decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush in the central province of Kasai, local officials say.

Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy.

Six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed, Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba said.

The unrest in Kasai began last August, when security forces killed the Kamwina Nsapu leader.

Friday's attack targeted a police convoy travelling between Tshikapa and Kananga.

The state Governor Alexis Nkande Myopompa said an investigation had been launched into the killings. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39396196?ocid=socialflow_twitter
 
That is not a bizarre beheading. That should go in a Bog-Standard Beheadings thread.
 
I didn't see this reported yet, even though it happened awhile ago:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...gia-elderly-couple-slain-year-later/70875900/

Mystery man emerges in year-old Ga. beheading case
Doug Richards, WXIA-TV, Atlanta Published 7:25 a.m. ET May 6, 2015 | Updated 9:36 a.m. ET May 6, 20


Investigators in the year-old murder of an elderly couple would like to learn more about a man spotted on the lawn of the murder victims. VPC

EATONTON, Ga. — Investigators in the year-old murder of an elderly Georgia couple would like to learn more about a man spotted on the lawn of the murder victims, the sheriff investigating the case said Tuesday.

"I consider (him) a suspect myself," said Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills. "But that's all I'll say about it. We had a witness that saw him out there."

Sills would not elaborate, nor would he provide a description of the man.

The case of Russell and Shirley Dermond remains unsolved.

Couple's finances focus of murder probe in Georgia

Russell Dermond, 88, was found beheaded in the garage at his home on Lake Oconee on May 6, 2014. Two fisherman found the body of Shirley Dermond, 87, near a dam in the lake May 16, 2014. She was found weighted down with cinder blocks.

With no obvious motive, Sills initially directed investigators to search the Dermonds' financial records for clues of anything untoward.

"Their finances and expenditures are remarkably routine," Sills said, after poring over eight years worth of the Dermonds' financial records.

Now Sills thinks the Dermonds died after what he calls a botched robbery extortion — in which the Dermonds were unable to deliver whatever cash or valuables the bad guys demanded.

Wife of beheaded man died of blunt force trauma

Sills said he is interviewing one of Russell Dermond's former employees this week, as part of an effort to contact anybody who could potentially help the investigation.

He said he is routinely making contact with investigators across the country who are handling similar cases — except, he said, few are as grisly as his case.

"We haven't found one quite like this one. You know, a decapitation murder is very rare," Sills said.

Sills believes Russell Dermond was shot to death, then decapitated. His head was never recovered. Sills believes it was discarded in Lake Oconee.

He said he believes the case will be solved eventually. There is a $45,000 reward for information that leads to the killer.
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ESTACADA, Ore. (AP) — A man carrying what appeared to be a human head walked into a grocery store in Oregon and stabbed an employee just minutes before authorities discovered a woman’s body in a home in a nearby town.

The two incidents were connected, authorities said.

The gruesome and bizarre chain of events began Sunday afternoon when the man entered the Thriftway grocery store covered in blood and with “what looked like a large kitchen type of knife,” Ernie Roberts, interim police chief in nearby Sandy, Oregon, said Monday in a phone interview. Sandy provides police services for Estacada, which has just 2,600 residents. ...

https://apnews.com/64635024d3c44e24...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
 
Some people are said to be beheading bald people in Mozambique due to a belief that their heads contain gold. I can understand albinism giving rise to some superstition about magic body parts but baldness seems an odd one. At least I feel better about losing my hair now that I know it's caused by gold. Perhaps I can sneeze it out?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40185359
 
A proper headcase.

A forensic examination of the contents of a coffin is to be carried out in a bid to confirm they are the remains of a notorious 18th Century clan chief. Nicknamed the Old Fox, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, was a Jacobite sympathiser who did deals with the cause's enemies. He was executed in London after supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie. Scientists, led by Dame Sue Black, plan to carry out the study at Highlands mausoleum next month.

After being beheaded in 1747, Lord Lovat's body was buried under the floor of a chapel at the Tower of London. However, according to the clan Fraser, his body was intercepted by his supporters and taken back to Scotland where it was laid to rest in his family's mausoleum. A body, minus the head, is in a lead casket inside Wardlaw Mausoleum at Kirkhill, near Inverness. ...

The Old Fox is known today by readers and TV audiences as the grandfather of Jamie Fraser, a lead character in the Outlander books and television drama. ...

It is said that several people who had gathered to watch the beheading died after the scaffold they were on collapsed.

Lord Lovat found this incident funny and is said to have been so visibly amused when he was executed that his death led to the phrase "laughing your head off".

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-41284414
 
I heard of an Italian funeral where the widow was inconsolable because she insisted it couldn't be her husband in the coffin. She said he was a tall man and the coffin was too small.

She would not be diverted from her concerns and so the coffin was opened up to placate her - only to find that the undertakers had cut off the dead husband's head and placed it between his knees so he would fit.

I would imagine heads rolled at the undertakers.
 
Not a genuine case but still a bit bizarre.

Members of a far right group in the Netherlands left a bloodied, beheaded fake corpse outside an Amsterdam mosque to protest against the "Islamisation" of the Netherlands. Local media reported that city police were investigating the incident.

In a Twitter account calling itself "Right in Resistance" gory images appear to show a fake head hanging from railings and a bloody, decapitated dummy with a note pinned to its chest slumped beneath.

According to Dutchnews.nl, the note translates as "Islam is indivisable from brutal beheadings. Islamisation must stop. No Diyanet mega mosque in Noord, with its links to dictator Erdogan." Diyanet is the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/beheaded-corpse-dumped-amsterdam-mosque-by-far-right-group-1655770
 
ramonmercado said:
A proper headcase.
A forensic examination of the contents of a coffin is to be carried out in a bid to confirm they are the remains of a notorious 18th Century clan chief. Nicknamed the Old Fox, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, was a Jacobite sympathiser who did deals with the cause's enemies. He was executed in London after supporting Bonnie Prince Charlie. Scientists, led by Dame Sue Black, plan to carry out the study at Highlands mausoleum next month. ...
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The results are in ... The remains aren't Simon Fraser's ...

Headless body is not C18th Scottish clan chief, say experts
Human remains thought to belong to a notorious 18th-century Jacobite-supporting Scottish clan chief have been found to be those of an unknown headless woman, according to experts. ...

A team led by the British forensic anthropologist Prof Dame Sue Black carried out investigations including DNA testing to determine whether the body was that of Fraser.

Black, the director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, said: “We can say with absolute certainty that these are not the remains of the Old Fox.

“The area of the body most indicative of whether remains are male or female is the shape of the pelvis, and two areas of the pelvis in particular. In both areas, these remains were very feminine. There is no way that these were the remains of an 80-year-old 6ft man who suffered from gout and arthritis.

“We estimate these are the remains of a young woman, probably aged 25-35. We understand that there are some possibilities that she might be a member of the Fraser family, and further DNA testing is being carried out.

“We simply don’t know what happened to the head, but it may be that it has been taken as a trophy many years ago.” ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.theguardian.com/science...-not-scottish-clan-chief-simon-fraser-experts
 
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