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Article: Scotland Yard detectives suspect ritual killing in death of young boy.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2002
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Byline: Andrea Gerlin
LONDON _ One day last September, someone threw the headless, limbless body of a 5- or 6-year-old boy into the grimy, fast-moving waters along a 13-mile stretch of the River Thames spanning greater London.
The small, black torso _ covered only in a pair of girl's orange shorts and losing its pigment _ floated to the surface one to 10 days later.
A young businessman walking across the Tower of London bridge spotted it adrift and phoned police, who retrieved it from a launch 20 minutes later, one mile upstream near the reconstructed Globe Theatre.
In a case that would have left Sherlock Holmes perplexed, the child's ...