Blood Bane

What happened?

The Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department is investigating the discovery of a human head inside a bucket found in a wooded area in Taylor, Mississippi.

Local children happened upon a nearby vandalism scene on Saturday morning. That discovery led law enforcement to the secondary scene where the human remains were found.

The deceased has not yet been identified. The investigation into who the victim is and the location of the remainder of the body is ongoing at this time.

Help investigate the case

The Blood Bane case documents are presented in chronological order in the Case Files.

• Click the Evidence, Interview, Biography, or Press tag at the top of the Case Files page to filter by document type.
• Click the Day tags at the top of the Case Files page to filter case documents by the day they happened in the investigation.

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Where do you start?

If this is your first look at the investigation, you may want to start with the Case Recap or one of these case documents:

• YCSD incident report
• Diagram of the Taylor, MS location
• Interview with Tucker Allison, witness at the scene
• Interview with Freddy Allison, witness at the scene
• Interview with Melissa Bridges, witness at the scene
• Oxford Weekly Planet post on the incident

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