Mark Hutchinson, 82, who served against the Japanese with the 2/12 Field Regiment in Borneo and New Guinea, was discovered on Saturday afternoon by his cousin.
As family and friends sought to come to terms with the murder, police confirmed that Mr Hutchinson's head was lying beside his body and that they would pursue several lines of inquiry, including his past.
Divers were yesterday searching a creek near Mr Hutchinson's home for the weapon used in his slaying. Detectives from Strike Force Penfold want to speak to anyone who was at the northern end of Markham Street, Armidale, or nearby parkland, between 5.30pm on Thursday and 2pm on Saturday.
The rest is here (even though all the other papers seem to have said that he was found by his nephew, rather than his cousin) but they really don't seem to know much yet. I used to live a few blocks away from there. It's not that big a town, anyway. Scary stuff.
How can someone do that?
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I get the feeling they kinda prejudiced the inquiry by stressing the Japanese angle. Though it would be cool for some octogenarian Japanese soldier to track this guy down, smuggle a sword into the country and lop off the poor guy's head.
It could be a bizarre suicide; but then self-decapitation is almost as hard as self-crucifiction (how the hell do you get that last nail in?).
"Strike Force Penfold" cracked me right up. Do you have "Danger Mouse" down there?
How vintage is Danger Mouse? That says something about Armidale Police. Moving forward!
The local paper only gets printed three times a week, and they took a month to get over the art gallery trying to sell a painting to get out of debt, so you can imagine the circus that's going on over there now.
Nice angle with the suicide - it's only a matter of time before the "new evidence" arises of the still-running power saw in between the head and body.
I love Danger Mouse! As for self-decapitation...I try t'avoid that type o'thing.
No, self-decapitation isn't my top way to. Self-crucifiction sounds like a good challenge! You'd have to rig up a nail gun somehow...
The Armidale Police would take years to figure that one out!
Or a really, long hammer you could hold in your mouth for that last bit...
I don't know, Viragobrat... The long hammer thing seems a little more like effort and a little less doosmday. Imagine lining up a nailgun with a trigger job to the last nail. Crucifiction by facing a firing squad (of sorts).
OUCH.
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