On October 6, 1989, it’s a quiet afternoon in Willard, Missouri. A woman is driving home after a long day at work when something catches her eye—a black bag.
The woman pulls over, gets out of her car, and looks inside the bag. She makes a gruesome discovery.
“She’s curious enough to open it and it’s a pair of legs,” said Sara Hansen, a former reporter for the Springfield News-Leader. “The body parts were stacked on the side of the road. And it was an odd way to hide the body because it was a fairly well-traveled road.”
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More bags are discovered along this well-traveled Greene County road. One bag contained a torso that was cut in half. The rest of the bags contained other body parts and a set of garden shears and bloody towels. The arms of the woman have never been found…