Word: culvert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first two miles, a pathologist testified at trial, and deliberately twisted his body from side to side, trying to keep his head from hitting the pavement. He may have been conscious at the time of his death, when his head was finally torn off by a concrete drainage culvert. Lawmen later found Byrd's head and upper torso, including his right arm, shoulder and neck, in a ditch about a mile away from the rest of his body...
...three white men charged in the death of James Byrd Jr. last June. Dr. Brown testified that Byrd was alive for aproximately half of the three miles he was dragged behind a pickup truck along a rural East Texas road. He died after slamming into a culvert...
...found on the morning of June 7, torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African American...
...ride outside San Francisco with a balding man in a blue van. The man approached her sexually, backed off, but later--having liquored up--beat her, bound her and raped her twice. Then he got his ax. He chopped off her arms and left her in a concrete culvert to die. She didn't. The next day, read court records, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her arms so that the muscles and blood would not fall out." When Singleton, a merchant mariner, was sentenced for the crime, the judge said he wished he could "send him to prison...
...escaped convict and a teenager suspected of a cross-country murder and robbery spree were nabbed in Santa Fe when they woke up in handcuffs. State police found Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Eric Elliot, 16, sleeping under a culvert -- with two high-powered rifles, a shotgun and a pistol. The cops followed up on a tip from a motorist who had given the two a ride last night. Gilbert and Elliot, both from Newcomerstown, Ohio, are suspected of kidnapping a 79-year-old Ohio woman, burglarizing her farmhouse and stealing her car a week ago, then killing a Missouri couple...