Posted on 10/27/2020 4:37:33 PM PDT by conservative98
A sunglasses-wearing human skull that had been used for years to decorate a Tennessee fireplace mantel actually belonged to a man who had been missing since 2012, local authorities said.
An unidentified person found the skull near the town of Gobey and put it on the mantel — where it sat for more than a year with sunglasses on, according to local District Attorney Russell Johnson.
Someone eventually told the local sheriff’s office about the skull, and investigators pulled a DNA sample from it, Johnson said in a statement.
The office matched DNA from the skull to family members of Junior Willie McCann, who disappeared in 2012
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Linemen find remains occasionally, bones mostly. And old Ma-Bell employee and friend told me that years ago.
>>Someone keenly interested in anatomy or anthropology?<<
or Shakespeare?
So you’re saying it might not have been skulduggery.
I know the Old Gobey area, family trees don’t branch
Do they still have those?
Some years back there was a similar case up in Canada where a guy found a skull in the woods and kept it as a souvenir. The cops were going crazy trying to track down a missing person when the idiot shows up with it “Maybe this will help?”. The cops were PIST!!
Many comments along the lines posted here about the weirdness of some people.
I was thinking James Carvell:
Come on man, who hasn’t done that?
[So you’re saying it might not have been skulduggery.]
“been missing since 2012”
On the other hand, Biden has been mostly missing since only 2019.
“Who do you love”?
“or Shakespeare?”
Alas, poor Junior! I knew him, Homer.
I have known people like that. Think of a household of young men in blue collar jobs, substance abuse, and infrequent female visitors.
Once upon FR......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1228428/posts
We thought Justified was great, too. You’re right, it was quirky, but some really fine acting and scripts.
I have a cow skull on my wall.
His cowboys and his Indians were always slim I guess I thought he was too...
:)
You hate someone so much you want to gloat over it, desecrate and humiliate your victim even years after he's dead...
DA is Russell Johnson, wasn’t he Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan’s Island also?
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