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Sheriff: Body of Shirley Dermond Found in Lake Oconee
WSB-TV.com ^ | 5-16-2014 | WSB-TV

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 couple’s 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: decapitation; dermond; georgia; lakeoconee; murder; putnamcounty
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1 posted on 05/16/2014 3:43:07 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Aquamarine

Lover’s quarrel?


2 posted on 05/16/2014 3:45:23 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Aquamarine
Amish or Baptists. None dare mention the group most often related to decapitation.
3 posted on 05/16/2014 3:47:04 PM PDT by Myrddin
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I’d be more apt to look to organized crime stuff here.


4 posted on 05/16/2014 3:49:59 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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“He’s even questioned Mrs. Dermond’s bridge club.”

Hardcore bridge players play for keeps.


5 posted on 05/16/2014 3:51:55 PM PDT by Owl558 (Those who remember George Santayana are doomed to repeat him)
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The sheriff’s dept. seems to be a little clueless.


7 posted on 05/16/2014 3:54:52 PM PDT by Aquamarine
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What is astounding is that you live to your late 80s and you die like this.


9 posted on 05/16/2014 3:59:06 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Aquamarine

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.


11 posted on 05/16/2014 4:01:17 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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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.


12 posted on 05/16/2014 4:08:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

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.


13 posted on 05/16/2014 4:10:13 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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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.


14 posted on 05/16/2014 4:10:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Cicero

I would look at a drug fueled rage by a family member who thought grandma and grandpa had cash for more.


15 posted on 05/16/2014 4:16:33 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Myrddin

I have never heard of this being a practice of Baptists. please educate/elaborate.


16 posted on 05/16/2014 4:34:31 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: exit82

Agreed. It’s really sad.


17 posted on 05/16/2014 4:38:40 PM PDT by tahoeblue
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“What is astounding is that you live to your late 80s and you die like this.”

Awful.


18 posted on 05/16/2014 4:40:44 PM PDT by jocon307
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19 posted on 05/16/2014 4:48:24 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Aquamarine

it could just as well be Knockout Game Extended Version, but the beheading rings a bell.

http://wwrn.org/articles/6687/?&section=nuwaubian-nation

http://www.11alive.com/story/news/crime/2014/03/06/1955218/

(video recap at the second link)


20 posted on 05/16/2014 4:53:02 PM PDT by blueplum
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