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Crime scene photo from John Doe Cecil County case. A tag of a bed sheet that the body was wrapped in.
Posted 48 minutes ago By: Amanda Engel
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Body dismembered and burned, in John Doe cold case
Decades later, police still don't know the identity of the victim, but the investigation has given them some information.
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When police responded, they found a grisly scene.
Two fires separated by just a few feet.
With separate parts of the same body.
"There was an unidentified African American male that's essentially cut in half," says Sgt. Chris Taylor of the Maryland State Police. "His legs and arms and I believe his right hand was on one fire and his torso was on the other fire. Very gruesome scene to say the least."
"So we believe he came from New York to make a drug deal," he says. "For whatever reason, that drug deal went terribly south and ended up, you know, costing him his life."
According to his NamUs case file, he's estimated to have been between 25 and 35 years old, and weighed around 166 pounds, with dark, short, and bushy hair.'