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🗓️ 12 October 2023
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0:00.0 | A bloody scalp was dumped in a bag on the side of the road in Pennsylvania, but investigators |
0:06.7 | quickly reached a dead end on the case. |
0:09.8 | For five years, dover police knew that somebody had been scalped and murdered. |
0:14.6 | They just didn't know who. |
0:16.9 | This is Monsters. |
0:42.2 | In January of 2012, a man was walking down Conowago Road in Dover Township, Pennsylvania |
0:49.0 | when he noticed a small bag of trash on the sidewalk. |
0:52.8 | As he walked closer, he saw that the contents of the sealed, transparent food saver bag seemed |
0:59.0 | to be stained with blood. |
1:00.8 | A food saver bag is what you would use in a food saver brand vacuum sealer. |
1:06.0 | A human scalp had been stuffed into the bag and abandoned, alongside a blood-stained |
1:11.3 | bed sheet. |
1:12.7 | The scalp still had hair attached, which had been left tied into a pig tail. |
1:17.6 | Forensic analysis of the scalp verified that it was human, and although there was no |
1:21.6 | way to tell whether the victim had been alive or dead at the time the scalp was removed, |
1:26.7 | pathologists agreed that removing the scalp from a living victim in that way would have |
1:31.4 | quickly become fatal due to blood loss and bone infection. |
1:36.0 | Investigators took samples from the scalp and ran it against the DNA profiles they had |
1:40.6 | on record, but there was no match. |
1:43.1 | No witnesses had seen anybody leaving the bag on the side of the road, and there was |
1:47.2 | no additional evidence found at that location. |
1:50.4 | It was a frustrating case. |
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