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Medicine murder is viewed as the obtaining of an item or items from a corpse to be used in traditional medicine. The practice occurs primarily in sub-equatorial Africa [citation needed]. The illegal organ trade has led to murder for body parts, because of a worldwide demand of organs for transplant and organ donors.
The Bournemouth body parts murder was a murder of 49-year-old local man, Simon Shotton, who was killed by 49-year-old Benjamin Atkins on 18 August 2023. Later, Atkins cut up Shotton's body and placed various parts around the Boscombe suburb of the Bournemouth area in Dorset, England.
Masego Kgomo (c. 1999 – 31 December 2009) was a South African girl murdered in order to provide body parts for rituals performed by a sangoma. [2] Her murder sparked calls for sangomas to stop using human flesh for rituals. [3] [4] Kgomo went missing near her home in Soshanguve, a township north of Pretoria, on 31 December 2009.
His dismembered body parts were scattered across Hertfordshire and Leicestershire, leading to him being known in the press as Jigsaw Man. [3] Marshall became known as the Jigsaw Killer. Marshall initially pleaded "not guilty" to murder, but he changed his plea to "guilty" and was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2010. [4]
Aguilar was arrested twelve hours after the discovery of the body parts by passers-by in these two locations. Originally charged with murder, Aguilar, who suffered from depression at the time of the offence, managed to avoid the death penalty after she pleaded guilty and received a sentence of ten years' in jail for a reduced charge of ...
The Kallang River body parts murder was a murder and dismemberment case that occurred in Singapore in June 2005. The case earned its name due to the body parts of the victim, 22-year-old Liu Hong Mei (Chinese: 刘红梅; pinyin: Líu Hóngmeí), being found disposed off in Kallang River. In this case, Liu's 50-year-old supervisor, Leong Siew ...
Police believed that Onufrejczyk dismembered Sykut's body in the kitchen and fed the parts to the pigs. The ruling was cited as a precedent in later murder without a body cases in England and Wales. [49] Malika Maria de Fernandez: Peter Reyn-Bardt Wilmslow, England June 1961 December 1983 The estranged wife of the convict.
Other severed body parts, including Thyrion's bisected torso in a storage tote, were later discovered by police. Schabusiness, who was involved in a sexual relationship with Thyrion, admitted to strangling him to death during sexual intercourse while they were both intoxicated with methamphetamine and prescription drugs. She continued to have ...