Years ago, while helping to archive old St Albans papers & documents, I came across an account in a coroner’s inquest of the 1810-20’s
A mail coach was passing under the arch of the White Hart Hotel on Holywell Hill, with two top passengers, a husband & wife, the husband ducked & the wife didn’t & was decapitated.
At the time, I was amazed that even a mail coach of it’s day, could travel at sufficient speed to produce such an injury, even more so, that if it was entering from the hill it would need to do a ninety degree turn to enter, or ditto on leaving.
But what sticks with me is the husband’s account, while still obviously traumatised, to the coroner.
I was amazed that even a mail coach of it’s day, could travel at sufficient speed to produce such an injury
A nasty case, her son is the main suspect.
Detectives believe they have apprehended the man suspected of decapitating a woman at her home in Co Louth.
Gardaí recovered the murder weapon, believed to be an axe, at the house in Ardee and will liaise with the DPP today in relation to bringing charges against the 32-year-old suspect. The 57-year-old victim, Elzbieta Piotrowska, was a mother of two and was attacked after her husband left for work yesterday morning.
The man who was arrested in connection with her death remains in custody in Drogheda Garda Station. He can be held until 8pm this evening. Reports suggest the man who was arrested is Ms Piotrowska's son, Tomasz Piotrowski, who is said to have been arrested over an hour after the murder in Ardee after officers had searched two properties in the town.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/break...tion-with-death-of-woman-in-louth-896403.html
In the name of God...Truly appalling.
This worries me.A rather distressing case.
A woman who suffers from paranoid delusions who decapitated her mother has been sentenced to a hospital order.
The body of Odessa Carey, 73, was found at her home in Ashington, Northumberland, in April. Her 36-year-old daughter, also named Odessa Carey, was charged with her murder but was found not to be fit enough to stand trial. After a trial of the facts, a jury at Newcastle Crown Court decided she was responsible for her mother's death.
Mrs Carey's body was found at her home on 8 April and post-mortem tests showed she had been beaten to death. Scissors, knives and a mallet were discovered in a bath. Police then found her daughter hiding in the loft of a property in nearby Guide Post. Mrs Carey's head was discovered wrapped in a pillow case and a towel in a plastic bag in the cupboard under the sink at that house.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-51855111
A tenant decapitated his landlord with a sword over a rent dispute, Hartford police say
A Connecticut man decapitated his landlord with a sword after being told he had to move out because of overdue rent, Hartford police say.
The Hartford Police Department responded to a 911 call Saturday morning from the landlord, Victor King, who said that his roommate Jerry Thompson, 42, had been "waving a sword at him in a threatening and terrorizing manner" amid a rent dispute ...
The next day, police received calls from a neighbor and then a separate friend of King's who were concerned about his safety ...
Police entered the residence Sunday afternoon to find a grisly crime scene and King's body "covered by numerous articles of bedding" on the floor ...
A medical examiner investigator's preliminary observations suggested King's injuries were consistent with a large edged weapon, noting "lacerations to the landlord's right arm, upper chest and across the neck causing decapitation."
Surveillance video also caught a male exiting a white Jeep, carrying a "long skinny white object in his right hand," walking into the residence Saturday afternoon, and exiting about 30 minutes later with the same object ...
When questioned by police, Thompson refused to speak but wrote on a sheet of paper that the "paper in glove compart in Jeep is all you need" ...
Once a search warrant was obtained, police found paperwork suggesting Thompson believed he was a "sovereign citizen," or an individual who believes he is not subject to any statutes and interprets the laws in their own way ...
Shortly after Thompson was formally charged with murder, detectives and members of the Hartford Police Dive Team recovered the suspected murder weapon about 10 miles away in the Farmington River ...
Man ‘decapitates mother’ before placing head in freezer and finger in kettle
A son stabbed his elderly mother to death with an ornamental sword, cut off her head and placed it in the freezer, a court heard.
Philip Tarver, 47, allegedly decapitated 86-year-old Angela Tarver as police rushed to the family home in Woking, Surrey.
He also used a knife to amputate her left ring finger, which was found in a kettle, it is claimed.
Opening the murder trial at the Old Bailey, Alexandra Healy QC said the attack took place in the kitchen at around midday on 19 December last year.
“The defendant stabbed his mother in the chest with an ornamental sword, killing her,” the prosecutor told jurors. ...
“Brandishing that sword in the dining room of the property he argued with and threatened to kill his father.”
During a struggle, he was disarmed by his father Colin Tarver, 83, who left the house with the sword and called police.
“It appears that whilst the police were making their way to address and Colin Tarver, the father, was outside the address, that the defendant decapitated his mother.
“He placed her head into the freezer of the kitchen and then he amputated her left ring finger which he placed into a kettle,” said Ms Healy. ...
During a mental health assessment, Mr Tarver explained how he killed his mother, jurors were told.
He was taken to a mental health hospital where he remained until March when he was deemed fit to be interviewed by police. ...
https://news.sky.com/story/teenager...re-than-100-times-with-samurai-sword-12061980Two teenagers have been jailed for life after trying to decapitate a factory supervisor as they hacked at him more than 100 times with a samurai sword.
Kiyran Earnshaw, 18, and Luke Gaukroger, 16, admitted murdering Robert Wilson in the "frenzied and senseless attack" in Huddersfield in January this year.
Mr Wilson, 53, had approached Earnshaw and Gaukroger as they loitered outside the Thornton and Ross Pharmaceutical plant.
CCTV footage played in court showed how the teenagers later passed a 20-inch blue samurai sword between them in an attack that lasted around 10 minutes.
Audio recorded from the factory supervisor's phone call to a security firm during the attack captured Gaukroger, who was 15 at the time, shouting "get his head, I want to cut his head, Kia I want to cut his head".
Why is it nearly always a Samurai sword?
Why is it nearly always a Samurai sword?
I'm so happy I found this forum!!For god's sake someone, start a Bog Standard Beheadings thread.
Samauri swords (or most likely copies of them) are displayed in certain households on walls as ornaments. They are close to hand in an argument, like kitchen knives are.
A teacher at my nephew's high school once chased his girlfriend down the street with one and was duly prosecuted but amazingly didn't get the sack.
This was in the '80s. I doubt he'd keep his job now!
"Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest", in English)