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rynner2 said:
Wheal Maid death cyclist David Alderson 'was murdered'

A 72-year-old cyclist whose body was found in a disused Cornish copper mine was murdered, police believe.
When David Alderson was found at Wheal Maid, near Carharrack, earlier this month, Devon and Cornwall Police initially thought the Falmouth man had fallen accidentally.
They have now begun a murder inquiry and say they are looking for 33-year-old Kevin Cooper from Redruth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-25947274
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David Alderson murder: Arrest over copper mine body find

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder over the death of a man whose body was found at a disused copper mine in Cornwall.
The body of David Alderson, 72, from Falmouth, was found on 18 January at Wheal Maid, near Carharrack.

A 33-year-old man from Redruth was arrested in Newbury, Berkshire by Thames Valley Police.
Devon and Cornwall Police said he would be returned to Cornwall for questioning.

Mr Alderson was last seen leaving his home on Old Hill, Falmouth, in his red Ford Fiesta Freestyle, on the evening of 17 January.

He was found wearing cycling clothing and the area around the mine, which closed in the 19th Century, is popular with mountain bikers, though police have been unable to find his bike.
His car was later found at his home.

His death was originally thought to have been as a result of an accidental fall, before officers later concluded he had been murdered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26030193
 
Aaron Fiveash missing: Body of 'naked' man found in Southsea

The body of a man found on a beach it is that of a "naked" man missing since early January, police have confirmed.
Aaron Fiveash, from Bournemouth, was discovered near South Parade Pier in Southsea, Portsmouth, on Wednesday.

The 36-year-old was thought to have no clothes on when he left his parents' home in Sunnylands Avenue on the morning of 6 January.
Hampshire Police confirmed Mr Fiveash's death is not thought to be suspicious.
His next of kin have been informed and a file has been passed to the coroner.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26037020

From Nude News:

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Major search for missing 'naked' man in Bournemouth

A land and air search has been launched in Dorset for man who is believed to have gone missing without wearing any clothes.
Aaron Fiveash, 36, is thought to have been naked when he left his parents home in Bournemouth at about 05:30 GMT.

Police said the "limited clothes" he had with him had been left behind at the house in Sunnylands Avenue.
Officers described him as white, 5ft 11ins tall, of medium build and with short black hair.

Sgt Billy Bulloch, of Dorset Police, said: "We are very concerned for Aaron's welfare as it is believed he left his parents' home in Bournemouth not wearing any clothes.
"Aaron's disappearance is completely out of character and I appeal to him to make contact with someone to let his family know that he is safe and well."

Police also issued a message from Mr Fiveash's father, Dennis, who said: "We love you, please come home. We are all really worried about you."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-25626401
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Nigeria lynch mob 'kills pastor' in Katsina state
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26030058

A Christian pastor has been killed by a lynch mob in northern Nigeria after a schoolgirl was mutilated and killed, a local MP has told the BBC.

The girl's body was found in the preacher's house, which was then burnt to the ground, said Ahmed Babba Kaita, MP for Kankia in Katsina state.

The pastor died on his way to hospital, Mr Kaita said.

The crowd apparently accused him and another man of killing the girl for ritual purposes.

A house and shop belonging the other man were also reportedly set on fire.

Police have intervened and the town is now said to be calm.
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Financial death toll rises to 6, as JP Morgan employee jumps from Asian HQ
Published time: February 19, 2014 09:52
Edited time: February 19, 2014 14:18
http://rt.com/business/jpmorgan-third-b ... icide-655/

The 30-floor Chater House tower housing the headquarters of investment bank JPMorgan in Hong Kong. (AFP Photo / Philippe Lopez)

A third JP Morgan employee has died under mysterious circumstances in a matter of few weeks. A still unidentified “Chinese male in is thirties” jumped from the roof of Charter House, the 30 floor Hong Kong headquarters of JPM.

An eyewitness told the South China Morning Post he saw a man climb onto the roof of the skyscraper shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday.


Despite attempts to talk him down, the man jumped before emergency crews arrived, landing on the road outside the building. The man who jumped was taken to Ruttonjee Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.


The unidentified man, aged about 33, was a junior employee who served a supporting function at the bank and wasn’t involved in investment activity, according to Bloomberg. Rumors circulating in the media say that his last name was Li.

A colleague of the man said that before the suicide he had complained about heavy work-related stress, though police say no suicide note has been found.

“Out of respect for those involved, we cannot yet comment further. Our thoughts and sympathy are with the family that's involved at this difficult time,” JP Morgan said in an e-mailed statement.

The latest apparent suicide marks the 3rd sudden death at JP Morgan and the 6th in the global financial world in just a few weeks.

On February 3, a 37 – year old JP Morgan executive director died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut. The cause of death, however, remains unclear and will be determined after a toxicology report is completed.

About a month ago, 39-year-old Gabriel Magee, a JP Morgan vice president in technology operations, died after falling from JPMorgan’s London headquarters.

Other apparent business suicides include a 58-year-old former senior manager for Deutsche Bank, who was found hanged in his home; Karl Slim, the managing director of Tata Motors aged 51, and 50-year-old Mike Dueker who worked for Russell Investment and was found dead on January 29 close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State after being reported missing on the same day.

Also reporter David Bird, who works in the Dow Jones newsroom went missing on January 11 when he left his New Jersey home for a walk.

Fine burden
Major world banks are under regulatory scrutiny over their so called “pre-crisis cheating” and multi-billion dollar rigging of benchmark and commodity rates.

JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank have been hit the hardest, with JPM being fined a record $4 billion and Deutsche Bank facing a $1.93 billion bill.

Reuters / Neil HallReuters / Neil Hall

In January, JP Morgan also admitted it had aided the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme by turning it a blind eye, but the US Department of Justice decided then not to send anyone from the firm to jail under a deferred prosecution agreement.

In March 2013 the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation published a 307 page report that described in detail JP Morgan’s financial irregularities and deliberate masking of some critical financial information.

More recently, JP Morgan was fined $614 million for concealing the full risk associated with the mortgage securities it sold Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ahead of the crisis.

In September last year JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $920 million in fines to settle probes related to the “London Whale” financial debacle of 2012. Bank employee Bruno Iksil, nicknamed “London Whale” for the size of his operations, was notorious for his “casino bets” of other people’s money, which caused the bank about $6.2 billion in losses.

Overall, eight world banking giants were fined a record combined total of €1.71bn by the European Commission for manipulating with the benchmark Libor and Euribor rates.

According to the EU investigation, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Société Générale, RBS, UBS, JPMorgan, Citigroup and RP Martin were part of two separate illegal cartels which conspired to manipulate Euribor and Libor to benefit their own positions in euro and Japanese yen-denominated interest rate derivatives markets.

Deutsche bank is now running internal probes into whether its traders manipulated interbank and foreign exchange rates.
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A few years ago several France Telecom employees committed suicide within a fairly short time span, including one young woman who jumped from a window of the company's office building in Paris. Very sad!
 
Michigan man kills himself while demonstrating gun safety
Published time: February 25, 2014 18:49
http://rt.com/usa/michigan-man-kills-gun-safety-714/

Reuters/Daniel Becerril

A Michigan man from Independence Township accidentally killed himself after reportedly firing a gun into his head while attempting to demonstrate how safe the weapon was.

The 36-year-old man’s girlfriend told law enforcement that he’d been drinking throughout the day when the incident occurred Sunday evening. Police told the Oakland Press that when they arrived at the home, the girlfriend was performing CPR on the man. He was declared dead at the scene.

Authorities have declined to release the names of those involved until the family has been notified. The girlfriend had been living with the man at the time with her three children, aged seven, 10, and 12.

According to the Oakland Press, the man was explaining to his girlfriend that his three guns were safe when not loaded. Police said he put two guns to his head and pulled the trigger, but when he did the same with the third gun, it discharged and a bullet went into his head.

“(The situation) is pretty unique, as I have never heard of anyone testing out the safety of a gun by pointing at their head and pulling the trigger,” Undersheriff Michael McCabe told the newspaper.

The man's death has been ruled a suicide by the Oakland County Medical Examiner.

There have been numerous incidents related to accidental gun discharges over the last few years. Last week, a Florida man accidentally shot himself in the leg after leaving a gun safety class and manipulating his weapon in the parking lot. He was taken to a hospital and treated.

Just two months ago in Michigan, the vice president of the United Automobile Workers union, General Holiefield, mistakenly shot his wife in the stomach while cleaning a loaded gun. Fortunately, she survived the incident, and Holiefield pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges.

In August 2013, meanwhile, the instructor of a gun safety class in Ohio accidentally shot one of his students while he was demonstrating the firearm to the class. He apparently did not realize the gun was loaded, and the boy survived after being struck in his arm.
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The man's death has been ruled a suicide by the Oakland County Medical Examiner.
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That doesn't make sense. It seems to have been a terrible accident.
 
Woman hangs herself in Korean reality television show
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26464490

A cartoon of a couple taken from the website of the South Korean reality tv show, Jjak

Reality tv shows are under scrutiny in South Korea

A woman taking part in a popular South Korean reality television show has been found dead in a bathroom on the set.

The police said she appeared to have hanged herself with the cord of a hairdryer.

South Korean media have raised questions about alleged bullying and humiliation during filming of the match-making show.

The producer expressed remorse at the death but denied that the woman had been put under too much pressure.

The programme called "Jjak", which means partner, features seven men and five women contestants who compete for dates in a guesthouse, known as "Lovetown", which is fitted with cameras in all rooms except the bathroom.

South Korean newspapers say the show has a reputation for creating emotional tension and that contestants are required to eat meals alone when rejected by their dates.

Producers questioned
Police said the 29-year-old woman, identified only by her surname Jeon, had left a note saying that her life was full of trauma and she wanted to end it.

She was reported to have told her mother by phone that she could not live in the country if the programme was aired.

The police have been interviewing the producers and other participants to try to find a possible reason for the suicide.

The national broadcaster, SBS, withdrew the latest edition of the show from broadcast after Miss Jeon was found dead.

South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the developed world. The latest government statistics indicate that the rate has tripled in the last two decades to 28 people per 100,000.
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This story has been simmering quietly in the local news for some weeks now. Although police suspected murder almost from the start, there was not much detail given. But today we get this:

14 March 2014 Last updated at 11:48
Perranporth beach naked body of Alan Jeal had sock in mouth

A man whose naked body was washed up on a Cornish beach was found with multiple injuries and a sock in his mouth, police have revealed.
Detectives are now investigating whether Alan Jeal, 64, from Wadebridge was murdered.
Police said "multiple injuries were found on his body which are inconsistent with drowning and cannot be easily explained".

Mr Jeal's body was found on Perranporth beach on 25 February.
Police said his body was also found with a shoe on one foot.
Some of his injuries were not consistent with him being in the sea, said police.

Det Ch Insp Dave Thorne said police "can't think of an explanation" as to why the sock was found in Mr Jeal's mouth.
"Officers are keeping an open mind as to the cause of his death," he said.
"Murder is one possibility we are considering, however his death may have been caused by accident or suicide."

Mr Jeal was seen in Truro city centre on the day before he was found dead.
It is believed he got a bus from Wadebridge to the Lemon Quay area of Truro.
Officers are trying to establish how he then travelled to Perranporth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26577107

Links on page to earlier coverage of the story.
 
Reminds me of the time they found a body with the head severed and a few feet away... and said they didn't think the death was suspicious. :lol:
 
Ronson8 said:
"Murder is one possibility"
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Wow, how astute, how likely is it that he beat himself up, stuck a sock in his mouth and then killed himself? :roll:
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however his death may have been caused by accident
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My son and I have been wondering what sort of accident could possibly lead to someone ending up with a sock in their mouth; we haven't thought of one.
 
No charges for Connecticut teacher who mistakenly shot son
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26587350

Visitors arrive at the home of Jeffrey Giuliano in New Fairfield, Connecticut, 28 September 2012

Visitors arrive at the home of Jeffrey Giuliano a day after the shooting

A popular Connecticut teacher who shot dead a masked knife-wielding intruder who turned out to be his adoptive son will not be charged, police say.

State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky said Jeffrey Giuliano was defending himself.

It is still unclear why his 15-year-old son, Tyler, tried to break into his aunt's home next door and walked towards his father with a knife.

A family lawyer said at the time of the shooting on 27 September 2012 that Mr Giuliano was "devastated".

State police said Mr Giuliano went outside his home in New Fairfield with a gun, after his sister, who lived next door, called to say someone was trying to break into her house.

He saw a masked person holding a knife come toward him in a threatening manner and shot him several times.

Mr Giuliano only found afterwards that it was Tyler.

On Friday, Mr Sedensky said Mr Guiliano had believed the person was holding a gun, and "reasonably believed that [the person] presented him with the threat of imminent death or great bodily harm".

"It would not have been possible for Giuliano to know whether he could retreat with complete safety to avoid shooting the subject," the state's attorney wrote.

The family, who have three other children, adopted the 15-year-old and his sister four years ago.

According to the family lawyer Gene Zingaro, the children's biological father was being sent to prison.

Mr Zingaro said Mr Giuliano's family has "literally hundreds of questions as to what Tyler was doing".

"Those questions will probably go unanswered forever," Mr Zingaro said in October.
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More on the Alan Jeal case:

New image in police investigation into death of Alan Jeal, found on Perranporth beach.
By WBMiles.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014.

Police have issued a new image of the bag thought to have been used by the man whose body was found on Perranporth beach.
The body of Alan Jeal was discovered with a sock in his mouth on the beach near the Watering Hole bar on February 25.

Mr Jeal, from Wadebridge, was captured on camera in Truro on the day before his body was found and police are trying to piece together his last movements.

It is believed that Mr Jeal got the number 594 bus from Wadebridge to the Lemon Quay area of Truro, arriving at the bus station at 6.14pm. He was seen walking towards the public toilets at The Leats, and was last seen at 6.36pm in Boscawen Street.
Officers are trying to find out where the 64-year-old went after that, and how he got to Perranporth.
[video: Alan Jeal getting off the bus?]

Detective Chief Inspector Dave Thorne, senior investigating officer, said: “We are keen to speak to anyone who saw Alan on Monday 24 February, whether walking, on public transport or in a car.
“We have traced his movements up until 6.36pm in Truro city centre but we need the public’s help in establishing where he went after that.”

Police said multiple injuries were found on the body which were inconsistent with drowning and cannot be easily explained.

Read more: http://www.westbriton.co.uk/New-image-p ... z2wIiGvB1c

As the cops have worked out he got to Truro by bus, I assume they'd have checked whether he also caught a bus to Perranporth. (He probably had a bus pass, and most of the buses round here have CCTV.) If not, he may have come to grief in Truro, so only his attackers can say how he got to the coast.
 
So the police have looked at the Perranporth buses, but can't say whether Mr. Jeal caught one...

Police release CCTV image of Alan Jeal before death

Police have released new CCTV images of Alan Jeal at a bus stop a day before his body was found on a Cornish beach.
Police hope to trace three bus passengers believed to have been in contact with Mr Jeal, whose body was washed up on Perranporth Beach on 25 February.

The footage shows the 64-year-old and the three bus passengers at Lemon Quay bus station in Truro.
Det Ch Insp Dave Thorne said these people may hold "vital" information.

The man, believed to be Mr Jeal, is seen talking to one passenger at 18:45 GMT while two others were also waiting for the bus that was destined for Perranporth.

On 24 February, the day before his death, police believe he got the number 594 bus from Wadebridge to the Lemon Quay area of Truro, arriving at the bus station at around 18:15 GMT.
He was seen walking towards the public toilets at The Leats, and then seen at around 18:35 GMT in Boscawen Street.
Police believe Mr Jeal was wearing a blue jacket and a rucksack.

DCI Thorne said: "We are keen to speak to these three individuals, particularly the man who was talking to the man believed to be Alan, as they may hold vital information about where he went next.
"It is not clear from the footage whether Alan got on the bus or walked away."

Mr Jeal lived alone in Wadebridge and was not reported missing to the police.
His body was discovered by a member of the public and was naked apart from socks and one shoe.
Police said multiple injuries were found on his body, inconsistent with drowning, and a sock was found in his mouth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26674176
 
Did you speak to man at Truro bus stop who ended up dead on Perranporth Beach: VIDEO
4:45pm Thursday 20th March 2014

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DCI Dave Thorne, Senior Investigating Officer, said:
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“If you were at the bus stop with Alan, saw him somewhere else that evening, or have any information that could assist with the investigation, please call 101 quoting log 381 of 1 March.”

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11 ... O/?ref=mry

Video better seen full-screen on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf275CfcFL0#t=17

I found it slightly disturbing.
 
Homeless man shot to death by police after being caught illegally camping
Published time: March 24, 2014 20:46
http://rt.com/usa/james-boyd-killed-apd-965/

Still from a video uploaded on YouTube by user@KRQE on March 21, 2014.

The Albuquerque Police Department in the state of New Mexico is coming under fire following the release of video footage taken from the helmet-mounted camera of an officer who shot and killed a man earlier this month for camping.

James Boyd, a 38-year-old homeless man thought to be schizophrenic, was shot by the Albuquerque PD on Sunday, March 16 after he became engaged in an hours-long standoff with officers who caught him illegally camping in the Sandi foothills. He was pronounced dead the next day.

Late last week, the APD released video footage taken from the helmetcam of an officer on the scene of the crime that shows a cop opening fire on Boyd while his back was turned to the police. The clip has since been widely circulated online and caused the local police force to become the target of widespread condemnation.

In the video, Boyd is heard telling the police, "Don't change up the agreement, I'm going to try to walk with you.” As he reaches for his belongings, however, an officer says “Do it” and a flash-bang device is fired at the suspect while a law enforcement dog is let loose. Boyd remains standing a few yards from the police seemingly unaffected by the blast, but moments later, the police say, he reached for something that they believed to be a knife, prompting Officers Dominque Perez and Keith Sandy to fire a total of six shots into the man.

As Boyd laid motionless on a rock with his face in a pool of blood, the police continued to bark orders at him before firing further rounds of non-lethal ammunition.



When the APD released the video on Friday, New Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden said that the video showed that the shooting is justified. It’s since been proven that Boyd had an extensive criminal past, and mentioned killing the police earlier during the encounter.

“I’m almost going to kill you right now. Don’t give me another directive. Don’t attempt to give me, the Department of Defense, another directive,” Boyd said earlier on.

According to KOAT News, previous incidents on Boyd’s record involve cases where he told people that he was God, or on a special mission handed-down to him directly by former-US President Gerald Ford. In 2009 he cut the face of a homeless man with a box cutter, and during a 2010 incident he was apprehended with a knife and razor blade in his waistband.

With regards to this month’s incident, Chief Eden said Boyd posed a “direct threat” to his officers and cited Garner v. Tennessee, a Supreme Court of the United States decision that found that the police can use deadly force in certain circumstances.

Grassroots organization ProgressNow reported that Albuquerque police have shot more people than the New York Police Department since 2010, despite being one-sixteenth the size, and has been the subject of a Department of Justice federal probe when the APD’s fatal shooting record was called into question.

According to the Huffington Post, Officer Sandy — one of the two cops responsible for firing the shots against Boyd earlier this month — was fired from the New Mexico State Police in 2007 over allegations of fraud.

“When Sandy joined the APD, the department said he would be a civilian employee and wouldn't have a gun or badge,” Sebastian Murdock wrote for HuffPo.

Albuquerque’s City Council President Ken Sanchez has asked that a federal investigation be opened up to review Boyd’s death, and a protest is scheduled outside of police headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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Police are still struggling with this one:

Alan Jeal death: Police appeal for witness

Police investigating the death of a man whose naked body was washed up on a Cornish beach want to trace a witness.
The man detectives want to trace was in The Leats in Truro at 18:30 GMT on 24 February, the day before Alan Jeal's body was discovered at Perranporth.
Mr Jeal's body, found on 25 February, had multiple injuries "inconsistent with drowning and cannot be easily explained", police said.

The witness was seen wearing shorts and a waterproof jacket.
Det Ch Insp Dave Thorne, senior investigating officer, said: "We would like to speak to this man in case he saw or spoke to Alan."

Mr Jeal, 64, from Wadebridge, lived alone and was not reported missing to the police.
His body had only socks and one walking shoe on it when it was found by a dog walker.

Officers previously released CCTV footage, hoping to trace three people standing at a bus stop in Truro, with a man matching Mr Jeal's description.

Earlier in the investigation, the force released a series of photographs of items that were found on the beach.
A Regatta jacket, wallet and photograph that were found on 26 February are believed to be Mr Jeal's.

A black-and-white woolly hat, found on Perranporth Beach on the day that Mr Jeal's body was discovered, has been claimed by its owner and eliminated from inquiries, a spokesman said

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26769831
 
California man washed out to sea during baptism
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26823842

A man holds his young child on a the breakwater of Santa Barbara Harbor, 1 March 2014

Officials warned the surf near the area can be dangerous

A California man remains missing a day after he was swept out to sea during an ocean baptism.

Benito Flores, 43, was among several people helping his cousin, Pastor Maurigro Cervantes, baptise a man near the Guadalupe Dunes Preserve north of Santa Barbara.

Two others were swept out by a huge wave but were able to swim to shore.

The US Coast Guard says the search for Mr Flores was called off at midnight on Sunday.

The baptism was just finishing up at 10:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday when the church members were hit by the wave.

"A big wave came and took Benito," Mr Cervantes told local broadcaster KEYT. "I tried to take him out, he was heavy and then another big wave came."

The US Coast Guard and as well as local rescue officials were involved in the search but there are no plans to resume it.

Santa Barbara Fire Captain David Sadecki said it would be difficult for anyone to survive more than 30 minutes in the cold water.

Mr Cervantes, who leads the Jesus Christ Light of the Sky church in Santa Maria, said his church performed such ceremonies two or three times a year, according to the Santa Maria Times.
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Human remains found in Bournemouth golf course tree

More human remains have been found in a tree on a golf course, a day after a dog discovered an arm.
Dorset Police said body parts were found in a "hard to reach location" up a tree at Meyrick Park Golf Club in Bournemouth, shortly after 12:00 BST.

The dog had brought remains of an arm and hand to its owner from a wooded area near the fourth hole on Monday.
The body has not been identified nor its gender determined but police said the remains were decomposed.

Dorset Police said the body parts were found 40ft (12m) up a tree in a "secluded wooded area off the main golf course", after a specialist team of sniffer dogs from South Wales Police were brought in to help the investigation.
Det Insp Mark Samuel said he thought the remains had been there for "more than weeks, I'd estimate months".
"We're not treating it as suspicious. We are keeping an open mind and trying to find out what happened and identify this person," he added.
He said unsolved missing persons reports were being investigated.

The area has remained sealed off while further forensic examinations and a recovery operation are carried out.
A police spokeswoman had said the arm initially found "was not wrapped or covered and did not have any identifying features on it".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26834881
 
I take it that's nowhere near the lake where they found the leg today?

Somehow I'm imagining a scenario where there was more than one dismembered and decomposed victim and they put the wrong bits back together. :shock:
 
rynner2 said:
Human remains found in Bournemouth golf course tree
More human remains have been found in a tree on a golf course, a day after a dog discovered an arm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26834881
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Bournemouth body in tree 'thought to be suicide'

Police investigating the discovery of human remains in a tree in Bournemouth have said they believe the death to be suicide.

A dog discovered an arm at Meyrick Park Golf Club on Monday. The following day, more body parts were found.
Police said the body was so badly decomposed it was not possible to determine if it was male or female.
It is thought to have been on the golf course for several months. The death is not being treated as suspicious.
Formal identification has not yet taken place.

The remains of the arm and hand were discovered by the dog in a wooded area near the fourth hole on Monday.
On Tuesday, more body parts were found 40ft (12m) up a tree in a "secluded wooded area off the main golf course".
The discovery came after a specialist team of sniffer dogs from South Wales Police were brought in to help the investigation.

Det Insp Mark Samuel said the force was "keeping an open mind" and unsolved missing persons reports were being investigated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26854349
 
rynner2 said:
Police said the body was so badly decomposed it was not possible to determine if it was male or female.
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Well unless they don't find the pelvis or skull that should be fairly easy to determine.
 
Bournemouth body in tree identified as Jurij Sliachtecov

A body found in a tree at a Bournemouth golf club is believed to be that of a missing Lithuanian man, police have said.
Jurij Sliachtecov, 21, went missing from Bournemouth in April 2011. His next of kin have been informed.
Dorset Police said they were not treating the death as suspicious.

A dog discovered an arm at Meyrick Park Golf Club on 31 March. More body parts were found the following day.

Following his disappearance, Mr Sliachtecov's family issued an appeal for him to get in touch and his case was covered in the Lithuanian press and on TV.

After the initial find of an arm and hand by the dog, more body parts were found in a tree in a secluded wooded area off the main golf course.
Formal identification is yet to take place. The coroner has been informed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-26922479
 
rynner2 said:
Police are still struggling with this one:

Alan Jeal death: Police appeal for witness

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26769831
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And still they need more info:

10 April 2014 Last updated at 08:54
Perranporth beach body: Appeal to gay men on Alan Jeal death

Police investigating the death of man whose body was found washed up on a Cornwall beach have appealed to the gay community for information.
Alan Jeal, 64, was found naked and with a sock his mouth, on a part of Perranporth Beach known as a gay cruising site.
Detectives said they had no evidence Mr Jeal was gay, but they were appealing "particularly to the gay community".

Officers are also trying to trace missing bank cards and an iPod Shuffle.

Mr Jeal's body was discovered on 25 February.
Police said a jacket found nearby containing his wallet was not the one he was wearing in CCTV footage on the day before he died.
Officers said they wanted to know where Mr Jeal was going on Monday 24 February when he was filmed on CCTV in Truro and Wadebridge, and who he met.

Det Ch Insp David Thorne, senior investigating officer, said police wanted to talk to anyone who knew Mr Jeal, or might have more information about his lifestyle.

He said officers had been in contact with Mr Jeal's younger brother, Derek, who was "clearly traumatised by the whole thing".
"Derek has given us some information about Alan's lifestyle and that he was quite a solitary character," he said.
"But, unfortunately it doesn't move us forward in finding out what happened on the evening he disappeared."

Mr Jeal has been described by his family as a "mild-mannered, gentle man who was very interested in minerals, mining and surfing".

Det Ch Insp David Thorne said detectives were trying find Mr Jeal's bank card and credit card from Barclays.

A post-mortem examination found multiple injuries on Mr Jeal's body that were inconsistent with drowning.
Police said murder, suicide and an accident were the three possibilities they were looking at.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-26953965
 
ramonmercado said:
California man washed out to sea during baptism
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26823842

A California man remains missing a day after he was swept out to sea during an ocean baptism.

Benito Flores, 43, was among several people helping his cousin, Pastor Maurigro Cervantes, baptise a man near the Guadalupe Dunes Preserve north of Santa Barbara.

Two others were swept out by a huge wave but were able to swim to shore.

The baptism was just finishing up at 10:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday when the church members were hit by the wave.
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My sister just mailed me, a bunch of god-botherers are carrying out baptism in the sea off South Beach, Fremantle, WA. Maybe sharks will get them rather than waves.
 
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