Posted on 10/27/2020 4:37:33 PM PDT by conservative98
A sunglasses-wearing human skull that had been used for years to decorate a Tennessee fireplace mantel actually belonged to a man who had been missing since 2012, local authorities said.
An unidentified person found the skull near the town of Gobey and put it on the mantel where it sat for more than a year with sunglasses on, according to local District Attorney Russell Johnson.
Someone eventually told the local sheriffs office about the skull, and investigators pulled a DNA sample from it, Johnson said in a statement.
The office matched DNA from the skull to family members of Junior Willie McCann, who disappeared in 2012
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What kind of a person picks up a skull alongside the road puts it on his mantel? He is a sick puppy.
You beat me to it.
Some areas of the US havent evolved yet
Morgan County Tn just up the road from Wartburg..Yall
A trophy from your enemy?
exactly. what a sick mind...
That’s effed up.
So Mr. Smith, did you know Mr. Jones?
Someone keenly interested in anatomy or anthropology?
So it didn’t come from Spencers’ Gifts?
Human skulls on the mantle used to be “stylish” over 100 years ago. I’ve read of people rummaging through old cemeteries looking for skulls to sell.
I have a long horn steer skull on my wall.
Here is a photo of the artist Fredrick Remington and his fireplace.
https://centerofthewest.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Remington-PN.23.1.jpg
You took the exact words out of my mouth. How creepy is that?
With the sunglasses, it looked like Traitor Joe.
Local authorities believe McCann may have been killed by a family member who
is now also dead, but are asking anyone with information to contact the Morgan
County Sheriffs Office.
Reminds me of a house I used to have, by the roadside. Had a brand new chimney made on top, made out of a human skull.
Was it sided with rattlesnake hide? :-)
What kind of a person picks up a skull alongside the road puts it on his mantel?
Sounds like an episode from “Justified”, one of my favorite Amazon Prime TV series.
Only “Justified” is set in hillbilly country in Kentucky. It’s a quirky violent series, feels a lot like something the Coen brothers would do.
Gotta wonder how many other people end up on the mantle or heads displayed on the wall in Tennessee?....
Moonshiners do not take kindly to strangers.
[What kind of a person picks up a skull alongside the road puts it on his mantel? He is a sick puppy.]
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