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Nov 3, 2019 · Dominic Moffitt. The tale of a the handless corpse, featuring a New Zealand drug baron, heroin, and a Chinese medallion. In 1979, two amateur divers arrived at Eccleston Delph, a water filled quarry near Chorley. Keen to explore the murky depth, the duo ascended into the cold water.
Oct 8, 2009 · They chopped off his hands and extracted his teeth in the hope he would never be identified. The body was then dumped in Eccleston Delph quarry. Having told the police so much, the women they...
Aug 29, 2023 · “The discovery of the body in Eccleston Delph led to one of the biggest crime investigations in international police history at the time - and the eventual trial at Lancaster Castle was the ...
And at Eccleston Delph - it's actually in neighbouring Heskin - they film the dumping of his heavily weighted body, its discovery by two amateur divers who thought it was a tailor's dummy, and its recovery by police frogmen. Lancashire police have co-operated with the makers. Few police forces, they believe, could have concluded the case in the ...
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Nov 9, 2019 · Though the body was not identified immediately, police knew this was a lot more than just evidence of a murder — and it was widely reported that the killing was a “gangland-style” execution. The victim, a powerfully built male, who could have been aged between 25 and 35, had severe stomach and head wounds, and was handless, preventing ...
Mary Hission, 24, was found shot and tied to a ship's anchor at the bottom of Sydney Harbour. The remains of the body of a young man were discovered on the outskirts of Melbourne with at least 12 stab wounds in the back. Another man was found hanging from a tree in New South Wales. The Killings stretched overseas.
Johnstone was murdered by his longtime friend Andy Maher under the orders of Clark, and his handless body was dumped in Eccleston Delph, Lancashire, mutilated in a hasty but failed attempt to foil identification by the police. Maher not only cut off his hands, but battered Johnstone's face hoping to prevent dental identification.
