From Remains exhumed from Worth Co. grave
The article doesn't say whether or not the other headless remains were ever identified, but I'm assuming they were still unidentified when this article was written because the article never mentions them by name.
I briefly looked on NamUS for other possible decapitations in the state of Georgia in the years surrounding the discovery of this John Doe. I did find this case of what appears to be a decomposing torso, but very little information about this case is online, and I'm not entirely sure there was any foul play there. Additionally, this UID was found in east-central Georgia, not northern Georgia.
I found something else that might be a bit more useful, though. This skull was located in Albany, Georgia. Albany, the county seat of Dougherty County, is a major city in southwest Georgia. Dougherty County is right next to Worth County, and it takes only about half an hour to get between Albany and Warwick via two rural state roads. I think there's a nonzero chance that this skull and the torso found in September '88 (or the thread topic) belong to the same person.
The demographics and circumstances really aren't as convincing, though, unfortunately. The age estimate for the Worth County torso is on the extreme low end of the age estimate for the skull found in Albany. The postmortem intervals may or may not line up either. The estimated year of death range on NamUS implies that the skull's owner could have died the same month he was discovered, but it also says that the postmortem interval was "years". The fact that they were able to determine the race of the Worth County victim leads me to believe that he hadn't been dead for very long and that he probably died in September '88. If the skull and torso did come from the same person, that would mean that the postmortem interval for the skull would most likely not exceed four months. However, we all have seen how unreliable postmortem intervals can be sometimes, so I'm still debating potentially calling this in.
Edited to add: As shown in the thread title, this UID does have a NamUS profile, but the profile has almost no demographic information on the UID, and the recovery date isn't even specified (the UID is listed as unsure sex/uncertain race between the ages of 1-99, and the date of recovery is listed as January 1, 1988).
The article doesn't say whether or not the other headless remains were ever identified, but I'm assuming they were still unidentified when this article was written because the article never mentions them by name.
I briefly looked on NamUS for other possible decapitations in the state of Georgia in the years surrounding the discovery of this John Doe. I did find this case of what appears to be a decomposing torso, but very little information about this case is online, and I'm not entirely sure there was any foul play there. Additionally, this UID was found in east-central Georgia, not northern Georgia.
I found something else that might be a bit more useful, though. This skull was located in Albany, Georgia. Albany, the county seat of Dougherty County, is a major city in southwest Georgia. Dougherty County is right next to Worth County, and it takes only about half an hour to get between Albany and Warwick via two rural state roads. I think there's a nonzero chance that this skull and the torso found in September '88 (or the thread topic) belong to the same person.
The demographics and circumstances really aren't as convincing, though, unfortunately. The age estimate for the Worth County torso is on the extreme low end of the age estimate for the skull found in Albany. The postmortem intervals may or may not line up either. The estimated year of death range on NamUS implies that the skull's owner could have died the same month he was discovered, but it also says that the postmortem interval was "years". The fact that they were able to determine the race of the Worth County victim leads me to believe that he hadn't been dead for very long and that he probably died in September '88. If the skull and torso did come from the same person, that would mean that the postmortem interval for the skull would most likely not exceed four months. However, we all have seen how unreliable postmortem intervals can be sometimes, so I'm still debating potentially calling this in.
Edited to add: As shown in the thread title, this UID does have a NamUS profile, but the profile has almost no demographic information on the UID, and the recovery date isn't even specified (the UID is listed as unsure sex/uncertain race between the ages of 1-99, and the date of recovery is listed as January 1, 1988).
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