From A&E, this is Cold In 1899, the Midwest town housed the winter residence of the Ringling

Brothers Circus. A century later, another Circus is about to inhabit this sleepy town, but in this show the main act is murder.

July 30th, 1999. Friday afternoon in Sock County, Wisconsin at

345, Detective Joseph Welsh answers a call about a family finding a

strange bag by the river.

The mother was on the beach.

They had come over and they were actually poking at what they had thought

at the time was garbage.

And they had poked it open, told the mother that they had found something.

She came back and looked and found that it was a human torso.

A female torso wrapped in a black canvas bag.

The remains are fresh, deposited on the beach within the past seven days.

Search teams immediately begin patrolling the banks for the rest of the body.

By Saturday morning, four more bags are recovered. Each contains a separate limb.

When Detective Welsh moves in for a closer look, the merely horrific turns bizarre.

The femurs, both femurs were completely skined,

the legs or the skin,

along with the flesh was removed and that was found in a bag.

Another very unique aspect of the body was how precisely this young lady was dismembered.

Special Agent Liz Fegels views the disarticulation of the corpse as an investigative key, a window perhaps into the mindset of a killer.

Disarticulation specifically refers to the taking apart of the joints as opposed to hacking or cutting and it was done almost with surgical precision.

On Saturday afternoon 24 hours after the torso was discovered,

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