Posted on 05/16/2014 3:43:06 PM PDT by Aquamarine
PUTNAM COUNTY, Ga. The Putnam County Sheriff confirms to Channel 2 Action News that a body pulled from Lake Oconee late Friday afternoon is that of Shirley Dermond. Dermond disappeared two weeks ago after her husband, Russell Dermond, 88, was found decapitated at the couples home on Lake Oconee. Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said in his 40 years in law enforcement, he's never seen a case quite like this. It is unusual for me at this point in the investigation, especially with this many people involved in the investigation, not to have a clear path that we are going down, Sills said. Sills said his investigators are almost done processing the Dermond's house for clues. He's even questioned Mrs. Dermond's bridge club. It's been two weeks since someone killed and then beheaded 88-year-old Russell Dermond and possibly kidnapped his 87 year old wife Shirley.
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Lover’s quarrel?
I’d be more apt to look to organized crime stuff here.
“He’s even questioned Mrs. Dermond’s bridge club.”
Hardcore bridge players play for keeps.
The sheriff’s dept. seems to be a little clueless.
What is astounding is that you live to your late 80s and you die like this.
Well, very little to go on. But the two options would seem to be murder and suicide, or a double murder.
Given their ages, a double murder seems more likely to me. An 87-year-old woman seems unlikely to have decapitated her husband. Not impossible, but unlikely.
Yeh I would say the Modus Operandi of the drug cartels is decapitation. Maybe one of their kids got on the wrong side of somebody.
Actually back around 2000 their oldest son was killed while buying crack. I’m guessing maybe the dad was seeking revenge and it backfired on him.
They had a son who was killed in 2000. I couldn’t find any details of that, though....other than LEO’s saying it wasn’t related.
I would look at a drug fueled rage by a family member who thought grandma and grandpa had cash for more.
I have never heard of this being a practice of Baptists. please educate/elaborate.
Agreed. It’s really sad.
“What is astounding is that you live to your late 80s and you die like this.”
Awful.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?

it could just as well be Knockout Game Extended Version, but the beheading rings a bell.
http://wwrn.org/articles/6687/?§ion=nuwaubian-nation
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/06/1955218/
(video recap at the second link)
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