Identified! CA - Woman with skull on stick results in body find- Mai Ker Thao

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NY Daily News:

Homeless California woman carrying human skull on stick leads cops to dead body

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Cops in Sacramento, Calif. launched an investigation after a woman with a human skull perched on a stick led them to a dead body Wednesday afternoon.

Patrolling officers spotted the woman, who is homeless, as she walked down a street in the northern part of the city at some point before 2 p.m. They confronted the woman in front of an abandoned house, and quickly realized that the skull on top of the stick she carried was a severed human head, Sacramento police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said.
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fox5sandiego.com:

Woman carrying human skull on stick leads police to remains

 

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Identified as 26-year-old Mai Ker Thao. RIP

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August 14, 2018 - SACRAMENTO -- A transient woman was seen walking along Connie Drive in Sacramento, holding a human skull on a stick in October 2016.

Investigators were eventually led to an abandoned homeless encampment on Crosby Way. There, the rest of the remains, identified recently as 26-year-old Mai Ker Thao, were found.

"We're trying to find out what she was doing and who she was with the last week of her life, and that's our missing place in her timeline," Sacramento Police Detective Scot Krutz said. "And that could lead us to what happened ultimately in the end."

Identifying Thao took some time, but her distinctive red hair dye and help from family eventually put a name on those remains.

2 Years after a Skull was Seen Carried on a Stick, A Woman’s Remains are Identified