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Aboriginal elder leads police to body -- but wrong one

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Aboriginal elder who claimed to have seen the location of a missing child in a dream has led Australian police to a body -- but it was not the corpse of a child but of an adult woman. Police believe the dismembered torso found wrapped in plastic at the Nurragingy Reserve at Doonside in western Sydney, a sacred ...

Australian elder's 'psychic vision' fails to find missing girl but turns up dismembered body

An Aboriginal elder in Australia who said she had a psychic vision of where to find a missing 6-year-old went to the wooded location outside Sydney and instead found the dismembered torso of an older woman. The Aboriginal woman had been trying to find Kiesha ...

Balkan river still bleeds the dead of wars past

DJUREVICI, Bosnia (Reuters) - For generations, the River Drina separating Serbia from Bosnia has received the dead of the region's wars. Now, for the first time in decades, it is giving many of them up. In recent weeks, experts have started searching the exposed bed along both sides of Lake Perucac, a 60 km (38 mile) long dammed section of ...

Woman arrested after boy's tumble dryer death

A woman has been arrested following the death of a four-year-old boy from Derbyshire whose body was found in a tumble dryer, police have confirmed. Sonny Gibson was found dead at his home in Northcliffe Road, Ashbourne, on July 26 after he was reported missing from his garden. A 41-year-old woman was arrested on Friday, on suspicion of child neglect ...

The case of Kyron Horman takes bizarre twists, but the OR boy is still missing 2 months later

The unfolding case of missing 7-year-old Kyron Horman has taken some bizarre twists, but the essential question remains: Where is the child? Suspicion rests on the boy's stepmother, Terri Horman, who is mute about what happened the morning the child disappeared ...

Police in Memphis suburb review handling of mysterious 911 call in Lorenzen Wright shooting

Police in the Memphis suburb of Germantown are reviewing how a 911 call from Lorenzen Wright's cell phone was handled as authorities investigate the shooting death of the former NBA player. Rodney Bright, Germantown's deputy police chief, says department officials did not know about ...

Body of second missing US sailor found: official

The body of a second US sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been recovered, a US military official told AFP on Thursday. The discovery confirmed suspicions that both the American sailors who went missing in eastern Logar province last Friday were dead. The Taliban earlier said their fighters had ambushed the pair, killing one and taking the ...

Remains of 1 missing U.S. serviceman recovered: NATO

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and foreign forces have recovered the remains of one of two U.S. servicemen who went missing from their compound in Kabul last week, the NATO-led force said on Tuesday. "Afghan and coalition forces recovered the remains of a missing ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) service member Sunday in eastern Afghanistan after an extensive search," the ...

New film over U.S. teen's disappearance on Aruba

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The unsolved disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 has been made into a film, with an expected release early next year. In a case that sparked widespread media publicity in the United States, Holloway disappeared from Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Her body has never been found ...

Panamanian police identify body of US woman missing since March

Panamanian authorities say they have identified the body of a U.S. woman who had been missing since March and are looking for a Texas man suspected in her death. Prosecutors' advisor Neftali Jaen says police on Friday identified the remains of Cheryl Lynn Hugues, who went missing in western ...

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