MURDERERS' TRICK.
Criminals seem to have adopted very quickly the idea that a decapitated body is extremely difficult to identify. This was proved last year wien the French police searched for several months and failed to Identify the headless body of a young woman which had been thrown into the Seine. On several occasions since then i-riminals have resorted to this means when disposla; of the body of their victim. The latest case is the body of a young girl believed to have been a professional dancer, found in the river near Mauriac. in the Cantal E>epartment. The' head is missing, and, according to medical experts the murderer, after killing the girl, inflicted several slight rasor cuts on the body. The body was crushed as though it had been forced into a trunk.
Inquiries throughout the region have so far failed to bring to light the disappearance of any girl, and It is thought that it will ibe a task of some difficulty to identify the body, which had probably "been brought by motor-car from some distant town.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 19
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