Jane Doe Served Head Story Explained: The new trending volume 4 of Unsolved Mysteries show streaming on Netflix is a gripping anthology series that deep dives into real-life cases that created a huge panic around the city due to the nature of their crime and remained unsolved till date. Yes, you read it right, no person has been identified behind that crime although police officials tried several ways to get through it.
In Volume 4, Episode 3, titled “The Severed Head,” shows the story, theories, police struggles, and shocking discoveries related to the case. This incident took place in the quiet town of Riverdale when a passerby discovered a severed head in a plastic bag lying near the river bank. The shocking part of this case is that the identity of the victim or the suspect, the motive behind the killing, and the rest of the body remained a mystery to date even though the authorities ran a serious investigation to unfold the mystery.
Who discovered The Severed Head?
It was a Friday afternoon when a 15-year-old schoolboy was running in the woods when he stumbled in a plastic bag. At first, he felt it might be some animal remaining part which the hunters do sometimes while hunting but upon opening it he found a human head kept carefully inside it. He informed the officials and soon an officer arrived on the scene. Initially, the police officer thought that it might be a prank as such kind of killing was not seen in the history of the town but upon checking, he confirmed it was a real human head and immediately informed his seniors.
Officer Andy was called to investigate the crime scene where he noticed that the head as lying on its right and there was no left above the packet which indicated that it was kept there recently even the tip of the nose was a bit flat which means that the head might have been stored in some box before throwing it on the scene.
Who’s Severed Head it was?
Identifying the victim was the first hurdle that the investigators had to solve and it didn’t seem easy. Initially, forensic analysis suggested that the head belonged to a middle-aged male but without the rest of the body, it was not possible to confirm. Officials spread across the forest looking at the other parts of the body or any identifying marks which can provide them further clues. After a thorough search, the police found nothing. They took the head to the mortuary to preserve it and perform further tests on it. Initially, when the police took the head to the forensic, they thought it might be a fake head which Hollywood uses to reenact scenes. Upon close look, it was confirmed that it was a real head.
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What was shocking to them was that the whole head was in a proper condition which indicated that whoever did this had taken proper care of the head after killing the person. Even the head was not just randomly cut away from the body instead it was precisely cut using a scalper. The eyelids were closed which was a natural thing but upon opening them, they discovered that there were no eyeballs and those were replaced by red balls which was a very unusual thing to witness in a crime. A dental test was done and the details were run through national databases, but unfortunately, no matches were found.
‘The strange discovery of an embalmed head in the woods of Western Pennsylvania has police mystified’, this was the news headline running through almost all the national news channels spreading a bone-chilling nightmare across the region. This lack of identification of the victim left a significant gap in the investigation and made it even more difficult for the police to solve it or establish any connections with the killing.
With little evidence which didn’t provide much help to the official, they started listening to the theories which were made by the locals. This made the police review some other unsolved murder cases to find some sort of pattern or connection but ended up with nothing. The police didn’t want to publish the original picture of the head so they made a sculpture that can be displayed and identified by the people using different profiles.
But soon the police got news from an older case that a head was stolen on 4th August 1988, 26 years before this crime and they believed that the head was used for a Satanic cult as there was no theft of watch and jewellery from the body. Upon comparing Jane Doe’s photograph with their head, they matched with it.
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What was shocking to them is that the head has dental work done on the teeth which was not possible back in 1988 when the head went missing, which meant that this dental work was performed recently. Upon further investigation, authorities found some of the funeral directors were selling body parts in the hours after the death and making a profit from others’ pain. After making all the attempts, police had no identification of the murderer and the case remained unsolved.
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 4, Episode 3, titled “The Severed Head,” deals with a heart-ranching story and does a haunting exploration of a real-life case that continues to defy resolution. The way this entire story has been shown and explained along with the interviews of the people connected with this case really captivates the viewers. If you are a fan of shows based on true events or suspense, then this can be a must-watch for you
