Helping Hand

What happened?

The Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department is investigating an alleged human hand that was taken into evidence in connection with an arrest.

Area farmer John Reagle was intoxicated when taken into custody at Duffy's Bar & Grill on August 11.

The bar's staff called 911 when customers complained that Reagle was harassing them, trying to get them to look at what he claimed was his ex-girlfriend's severed hand.

If the hand is human, the whereabouts of the person it came from are unknown at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

Help investigate the case

The Helping Hand case documents are presented in reverse chronological order and are available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time. (Don't want to wait? Subscribe now.)

• Click the Evidence, Interview, Biography, or Press tag at the top of the page to filter by document type.
• Click the Day tags at the top of the 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 arrest report [available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time]
• Photos of the alleged hand [available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time]
• Oxford Weekly Planet post on the incident [available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time]
• Interview with the farmer who had the alleged hand [available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time]
• Results of a search of the farmer's field [available exclusively to Case Detectives for a limited time]

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