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Headless body near Waffle House - cops try to solve ‘gory’ mystery in Nashville
NY Post ^ | 8/23/25 | Anna Young

Posted on 08/24/2025 3:10:04 AM PDT by Libloather

A mysterious headless corpse was found rotting in a wooded strip flanked by two fast-food joints in Tennessee — and cops have no idea how long it had been there, according to reports.

Authorities responded to the grim scene after a women stumbled upon a cluster of heavily decomposed bones in the woods behind a McDonald’s and Waffle House in Nashville Friday morning, WSMV reported.

A severely crumbling skull was then found roughly 100 feet from the gruesome decapitated remains, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.

“It is unclear at this point who this person is, how this person got there,” a police spokesperson said, adding that the gender and age of the unidentified skeletal corpse is still unknown.

“Given the heat and the woods and the nature of how this person was found it’s extremely difficult for officers to see and four our CSI team to photograph and capture.”

Officials have yet to confirm if the severed head belongs to the putrefying bones, the outlet reported.

The horrific discovery left workers at the quick-service eateries in shock.

“It’s pretty gory, that’s crazy,” worker Tom Keesee told the outlet.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: headless; mystery; nashville; tennessee; wafflehouse
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Past employee. Who else would go behind a Waffle House after 2am?
1 posted on 08/24/2025 3:10:04 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I’m here for the comments.


2 posted on 08/24/2025 3:34:59 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Libloather

Check the hash browns.


3 posted on 08/24/2025 3:35:37 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Libloather

My money is that is a drug war retaliation, illegals from the cartels are known to cut off heads.


4 posted on 08/24/2025 3:36:22 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Libloather
Three observations:
  1. One shouldn't discount the possibility that the murder victim was killed elsewhere, dismembered, and the remains deposited behind the Waffle House at some later time.
  2. I am surprised the smell hadn't attracted the attention of passersby / Waffle House customers earlier.
  3. The discovery of a decomposed corpse just steps from your Waffle House has got to be terrible for business.
Regards,
5 posted on 08/24/2025 3:36:54 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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A severely crumbling skull was then found roughly 100 feet from the gruesome decapitated remains

At least they're making headway.

6 posted on 08/24/2025 3:55:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

Have they tracked the whereabouts of Randy Travis?
I heard he was ‘diggin’ up bones’....


7 posted on 08/24/2025 4:02:32 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Libloather

I think I found the place. There’s a motel right there too.
I’m guessing the woman who found the body stayed at the motel and was walking to either the McDonald’s or the Waffle House.


8 posted on 08/24/2025 4:03:11 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Libloather

Gay guys hooking up might be out there. Actually, a homeless person could have just died out there, and animals dragged the head a ways away. I mean, if you’re going to go to all that trouble to cut off a head, why leave it in the general vicinity?


9 posted on 08/24/2025 4:09:39 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Libloather

They found the headless horseman or is it all The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?


10 posted on 08/24/2025 4:11:02 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Libloather

11 posted on 08/24/2025 4:12:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Libloather

The beheading bears the trademark of the Sword of Islam.


12 posted on 08/24/2025 4:13:19 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Libloather

I syrup the detectives solve the crime.


13 posted on 08/24/2025 4:23:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: quantim

Cartels are now operating inside the USA, not just in Mexico?


14 posted on 08/24/2025 4:39:36 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. )
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To: Libloather

I keep seeing street signs that say “Stop A Head” so I stop, look, but never see any heads.


15 posted on 08/24/2025 4:40:47 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: desertsolitaire

Yes, cartels and their extensions are operating all over the world. MS-13 is a good example, like the most perfect “Maryland Man” who had tattoos with “MS-13 on his knuckles caught smuggling humans. These animals are a curse on the whole planet.


16 posted on 08/24/2025 4:54:11 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Lazamataz

Damn! You beat me to it!


17 posted on 08/24/2025 4:58:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Libloather

Well, the head could have been dragged 100 ft away from the decomposing body by coyotes or other animals.

My guess is as good as anyone’s at this point, but could have been a homeless person who died there from exposure or drug overdose.


18 posted on 08/24/2025 5:06:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Libloather

“ Authorities responded to the grim scene after a women…”

What’s “a women?”

Is this some variant or they/them pronouns?


19 posted on 08/24/2025 5:07:53 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I syrup the detectives solve the crime.

The sooner the butter.

20 posted on 08/24/2025 5:19:32 AM PDT by Right Brother (I don't really care Margaret.)
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