This is something I'd expect in Mexico or France, not the US.
May I ask why? There’s a goodly number of decapitation murders in the U.S., home of the “headless body found in topless bar” headline.
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@the-professor, but the homicide rate in Mexico is at least 5x higher than in the US, and a good deal of it is linked to organised crime where sending a message may be viewed as being important.
Unless I'm mistaken, murder by decapitation in the US is very rare.
I think Headless Body in Topless Bar might have been a movie?
This case (decapitation of Chandra Nagamallaiah) appears to be the 3rd (that I can find) this year in the US - out of 15840 total homicides (so around 0.018 percent?)
In Mexico... well, many murders go unreported, but there have been rather a lot of decapitations this year:
February 2025 - Police reported the discovery of a mass grave containing at least 34 bodies at a construction site in Zapopan, Jalisco. Human remains were found packed into 169 bags, prompting a forensic investigation. Experts have since identified 17 bodies and are continuing their work to identify more victims. This discovery has highlighted the region's ongoing issues with cartel violence and forced disappearances, linked to powerful criminal groups like the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
April 2025 - Authorities found bags of various body parts close to the tourist zone near Acapulco.
A note was reportedly found near one of the bodies indicating the involvement of criminal groups.
June 2025 - Authorities discovered 20 bodies, several of which were decapitated, on a highway bridge in Sinaloa. Four headless corpses were found by the roadside, while 16 bodies were discovered inside an abandoned vehicle. Five human heads were found inside a bag at the scene. All of the bodies showed signs of gunshot wounds. The violence was attributed to infighting between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
August 2025 - Six severed heads were discovered along a road in Puebla and Tlaxcala, accompanied by a threatening message from a rival gang.
