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- 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. Beneath the deep expanse, a little over 30 feet beneath the surface, is a sandstone ledge. It was on that ledge, that the two divers found the mutilated body of Marty Johnstone.
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Oct 8, 2009 · When two amateur divers plunged into a water filled quarry near Chorley on a Sunday morning they were unaware of what they were about to uncover - or the consequences of the gruesome find. Jeff...
Nov 3, 2019 · Long life inspired the papers to dub the discovery of the mutilated corpse as a 'Chinese Puzzle' on October 15, 1979, the day after two divers found the body at the bottom of Delph Quarry, naked and anchored beneath the water with industrial weights and a hydraulic lorry jack.
Aug 29, 2023 · Known widely as ‘The Handless Corpse’ case, the investigation began in 1979 when two amateur divers at Eccleston Delph, a water filled quarry near Chorley, discovered a mangled body in the...
The naked, mutilated corpse of a stocky man thought to be under 30 was found by amateur scuba-divers at Marsden's Quarry, off Halfpenny Lane, Eccleston, near Chorley. The frogmen say both hands had been chopped off the body and there was a large gaping wound in the stomach.
Nov 9, 2019 · 2019-11-09 - Lancs Live. ‘It was only when we got close, we found it was a body and had no hands, our stomachs turned.’. In October 1979, two amateur divers, Jeffrey Ashcroft and Ian Reading, arrived at Eccleston Delph, a water-filled quarry near Chorley, in the English county of Lancashire.
Apr 8, 1995 · October 15, 1979. Eccleston Delph, a flooded quarry in the heart of Lancashire, was never meant to reveal it's gruesome secret. But the body of Martin Johnstone never hit the bottom. The naked, mutilated corpse was found by amateur scuba divers. Read all about it here
Oct 8, 2009 · The discovery of Martin Johnstone's mutilated body in a water-filled quarry in Eccleston in 1979 led the police to uncover an international drug ring. In the first of the series of Lancashire...
