The discovery of a headless body in a bath house along Pittsburgh’s Monongahela River left detectives with a grim puzzle and almost nothing to follow.
The victim was soon identified as 21-year-old Charles “Chuck” McGregor, a young man from Kittanning whose restless travels had taken him away from home months earlier.
Police admitted they had no clear clue and no definite motive, but the strange condition of the body led them into troubling speculation. With McGregor’s head found buried in the sand nearby, a photograph beside the body, and tattoo marks on his arms, including an inscription in Arabic, detectives began tracing his movements in search of someone who may have wanted revenge.
Pittsburgh Police Work on Mystery
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania. — With the identification of the headless body found Wednesday in a bath house along the Monongahela River as that of Charles “Chuck” McGregor, 21, city detectives today began the task of attempting to unravel what they believe has the aspect of a mystery…