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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/River Thames
		By the 18th century, the Thames was one of the world's busiest waterways, as London became the centre of the vast, mercantile British Empire.
		The serenity of the contemporary Thames is contrasted with the savagery of the Congo River, and with the wilderness of the Thames as it would have appeared to a Roman soldier posted to Britannia two thousand years before.
		The Thames is the historic heartland of rowing in the United Kingdom.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/River_Thames (2696 words)

	Torso in the Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Torso in the Thames is an unsolved murder case in the United Kingdom.
		It centres on the discovery of the torso of an African boy, between the ages of four and seven, in the River Thames, London on September 21, 2001.
		The torso was first discovered on the afternoon of Friday September 21, 2001 as it floated past the Tower of London towards Tower Bridge in Central London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Torso_in_the_Thames (682 words)

	Torso Murder : Search Renewed Detectives hunting the killer of a young woman whose severed upper torso was found ...
		Torso Murder : Search Renewed Detectives hunting the killer of a young woman whose severed upper torso was found floating in the Thames in London are to search the river again for the rest of her body.
		On Sunday 17th December 2000 the upper torso of a female was recovered from the Thames at Battersea.
		Detectives hunting the killer of a young woman whose severed upper torso was found floating in the Thames in London are to search the river again for the rest of her body.
	www.criminalprofiling.com /Torso-Murder--Search-Renewed_s101.html (421 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Police are 'tantalisingly close' to breakthrough in Thames torso murder
		Detectives investigating the voodoo killing of "Adam", the boy whose decapitated and limbless torso was found floating in the Thames two years ago, believe that they are "tantalisingly close" to charging someone in connection with his murder.
		Painstaking forensic tests have proved that the dead boy, whose throat had been slit and whose stomach contained a potion of animal bone, quartz and clay with traces of gold, had lived most of his life in or near Benin City in Nigeria and was brought to London shortly before his horrific death.
		She claimed asylum, telling immigration officers she was fleeing her estranged husband, Sam Onojhighovie, who she claimed had been responsible for 10 ritual killings over a one-year period and was linked to a sinister Nigerian cult accused in the past of a voodoo slaying.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/24/ntorso24.xml (798 words)

	Observer - Hua Hin and Cha-am Stories and articles.
		On closer inspection he found that it was the upper part of a human male torso, minus head and arms.
		The police learned that three days before the torso was found three men had been discussing the death of Moseley at a family funeral.
		The cuts in the neck structure were made by an eighteen-teeth-per-inch Eclipse high-speed hacksaw blade and were consistent with those recorded from sections of the torso identified as that of William Moseley.
	www.observergroup.net /ob108back/stories.htm (2736 words)

	CNN.com - Boy's headless torso found - September 24, 2001
		The torso - the arms and legs had also been removed - was spotted floating in the River Thames in London by a member of the public.
		River police recovered the torso from the water near to the Globe Theatre tourist attraction on the South Bank but despite a search, no other body parts could be found.
		The body, which is thought to have been in the river for between one and 10 days, was brought ashore by river police who are continuing to search for the limbs and head.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/09/23/britain.torso/index.html (289 words)

	Woman held over Thames torso case \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		A woman was arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of a boy whose torso was found in the river Thames last year.
		The married mother, who is in her 30s and of West African origin, was held at her home in Glasgow before being transferred to a police station in south London for questioning last night.
		His torso, clad in a pair of orange shorts, was spotted floating in the Thames by a man walking across Tower Bridge on September 21.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,752474,00.html (321 words)

	spiked-culture \| Column \| TV UK, 30 January
		Torso in the Thames (last Sunday) followed the murder investigation after the discovery of a boy's torso in the river in September 2001.
		I was less disturbed by the pictures of the boy's torso than by the programme-makers' uncritical acceptance of the police's assumption that this was an African ritual murder.
		Torso in the Thames dutifully followed every twist and turn in the case.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DC24.htm (603 words)

	Jimmy Lee Shreeve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now that "Adam" has finally been buried (in a low-key ceremony in early December), I've uncovered compelling new evidence to suggest that the young fl boy, whose torso was pulled out of the Thames on 21 Sept, 2001, may not have been an African witchcraft or "Juju" sacrifice, as is popularly believed.
		I've got a piece in this week's issue about the 2001 "Thames torso" case, in which a little fl boy was thought to have been ritually sacrificed by evil Juju practitioners.
		My full coverage of the Thames torso case can be found in the first chapter of my book Blood Rites (Arrow 2006).
	www.jimmyleeshreeve.net (1271 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Police investigating the murder of a young African boy whose dismembered torso was found in the Thames have arrested a gang suspected of bringing hundreds of people, including many children, into Britain illegally.
		Senior detectives said yesterday that they believed the gang was responsible for trafficking Adam - the name given by police to the boy whose torso was found - into the country.
		It is thought the gang passed Adam on to those who killed him for the "benefit" of whoever commissioned the sacrifice of the boy, who was aged between four and seven and whose mutilated torso was found floating near Tower Bridge in September 2001.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/30/ntors30.xml (744 words)

	Focus: Torso in the Thames - MUTI: THE STORY OF ADAM Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles
		The arrest of 21 people in connection with the discovery of a child's mutilated body in the Thames points to a network of people traffickers and an underworld of abuse and domestic slavery.
		Paul Vallely, who has followed the case in the two years since the torso of the young African boy was found, says the evidence leads to the bloody ritual of muti, where the body parts of children are sacrificed in pursuit of spiritual power
		All that remained was a torso dressed - grotesquely - in a pair of orange shorts, which had been thrown into the Thames shortly before it was discovered in September 2001.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030803/ai_n12743122 (904 words)

	spiked-culture \| Article \| Mysticism and murder
		According to Scotland Yard, the young west African boy whose severed torso was found in the River Thames, London had eaten a poisonous bean before he died.
		Since the torso was found over two years ago, forensic study has yielded all kinds of information: where the boy was from, what he had eaten, how he was killed.
		The headless, limbless body was spotted near Tower Bridge in the Thames in September 2001, wearing an orange pair of shorts.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DF8A.htm (1717 words)

	Adam "Sacrifice" Case: Was Scotland Yard Duped?
		One "sangoma" or medicine man they spoke to told them that the ritual sacrifice of Adam was likely to a water deity called Oshun and would have been carried out by a gang of people strengthening themselves magically to do some "very ugly crimes".
		The medicine man added that the orange shorts found on Adam's torso would have been put on after his death and that the colour orange was sacred to Oshun.
		According to Adam Kuper, a professor of anthropology at Brunel University in the West of England, who grew up in South Africa, this is not the case.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006/9/prweb437177.htm (771 words)

	21 held by torso murder police \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Police investigating the discovery of a boy's torso in the Thames arrive at a property in east London armed with a battering ram before an early morning raid.
		A total of 21 people were detained in the operation by detectives investigating the murder of a young boy whose torso was found floating in the Thames.
		His torso measured just 18in by 8in and was discovered naked apart from a pair of orange shorts which could be bought only in Woolworths stores in Germany.
	www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,2763,1008020,00.html (763 words)

	Arrest in Thames torso case: News24: Archive: News24
		London - British police on Tuesday arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a boy whose mutilated torso was found in a river, a case which has prompted an extended probe into a suspected ritual killing.
		The married mother, who is in her 30s and of west African origin, was arrested at her home in the Scottish city of Glasgow, and then flown to London for questioning.
		It is the first since the torso of the still unidentified African boy, wearing a pair of orange shorts, was found in the River Thames in London on September 21 last year.
	www.news24.com /News24/Archive/0,,2-1659_1211325,00.html (342 words)

	Thames torso murder police in voodoo invocation shocker [The Rockall Times]
		Thames torso murder police in voodoo invocation shocker
		The Metropolitan Police are to use ground-breaking techniques in an effort to discover the identity of a dismembered body that they believe was the victim of a ritualistic "voodoo" killing.
		Police have been unable to determine the identity of a young male torso found floating in the River Thames last September, despite a large-scale operation involving a massive amount of paper-shuffling and an award-winning televised plea for information from Michael Barrymore.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2002/03/18/police-voodoo.html (517 words)

	River Thames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its usually quoted source is at Thames Head (at grid reference ST980994), about a mile north of the village of Kemble and near the town of Cirencester, in the Cotswolds.
		However he also refers to the area as "brown" and throughout this poem the semantic field evokes feelings of decay with its references to detritus.
		In this instance, it could be said that the Thames is a boundless and free notion; but Blake seems to be showing here a disdain for its apparent 'chartered' nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Thames (2884 words)

	Londonist: Thames Torso Laid To Rest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Since the discovery of his torso in the Thames in September 2001, the mystery child named "Adam" by the investigation team has baffled the police and has sparked a five-year probe into possible ritual killings in London and Nigeria.
		We can only imagine how his remains were abused - and then his torso, the only surviving piece of him, was kept as a vital piece of evidence in the investigation in London and Africa for a further five years.
		There is a certain sense of "laying to rest" in the quiet, peaceful ceremony for him in the unnamed London cemetery at the beginning of this month.
	www.londonist.com /archives/2006/12/thames_torso_la.php (496 words)

	A Few of Our Client's Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome.
		He resumed his crimes in 1902, taking his last victim south of the Thames and leaving her body in a pile of dismembered parts as he had done with most of his other victims.
		It also raises the idea that Jack the Ripper and the Torso Murderer may have been the same man--Severin Klosowski, better known as George Chapman, the Borough Poisoner.
	www.sedgeband.com /clients.html (1400 words)

	WorldWide Religious News - Exposed: witch-doctors
		Tests by the scientists who are also involved in the "torso in the Thames" murder have so far shown that it contains plant extracts, quartz and, disturbingly, blood and muscle tissue.
		Since the discovery of a boy's headless and limbless body in the Thames in September 2001, the prevalence of fl magic - the generic Western term for African voodoo and juju practices - has shocked detectives.
		Until the murder of Adam, as the victim came to be known, there was a gaping hole in the police's knowledge of African medicinal practices - after all, it was not their job to pry into the religious or superstitious beliefs of other cultures.
	www.wwrn.org /sparse.php?idd=6196 (1831 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - 21 held in hunt for torso boy's killer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DETECTIVES hunting the killer of the "torso in the Thames" victim said yesterday that they had smashed the gang whom they suspected of smuggling the Nigerian boy into the UK.
		The youngster, aged between four and seven, was believed to have been the victim of a ritualistic sacrifice after being smuggled from Nigeria via Europe.
		Onojhighovie is thought to be the estranged husband of Joyce Osagiede, who was arrested in connection with the murder a year ago in Glasgow but was never charged and later returned to Nigeria.
	www.thescotsman.co.uk /uk.cfm?id=819892003 (596 words)

	Bartholomew's notes on religion
		Thereafter the police referred to the torso in the Thames case, as it became known, as a “ritual” killing and spoke of fl magic rituals.
		This is an oversimplification: the link between “Adam’s” death and some sort of ritual rests on stronger grounds than just the dubious expertise of Jonkers and the SRA crowd.
		Hoskins says the orange colour of Adam's shorts, and the dumping of his torso in the river is also ritually significant.
	blogs.salon.com /0003494/2006/09/02.html (1321 words)

	No 791: Ritual Murder And Barbaric Migrants
		In London yet again, the "Torso in the Thames" case of a boy whose decapitated body, posthumously named Adam by the Scotland Yard detectives investigating the case, was found near the Tower Bridge in the Thames river continued through the summer, fall, and winter of 2003.
		The headless and limbless torso of a boy of between four and seven is a tragedy of immense proportions.
		Oshun, a Yoruba river goddess is associated with orange, the colour of the shorts, which were placed on Adam's body 24 hours after he was killed as a bizarre addition to the ritual.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/791.html (1138 words)

	The Scotsman - UK - Police question man over Thames torso boy
		POLICE investigating the voodoo-style killing of an African boy whose dismembered and mutilated body was found in the Thames are questioning a man in Dublin.
		His torso, clad in orange shorts, was found floating in the Thames near Tower Bridge on 21 September, 2001.
		By identifying traces of pollen in the boy’s lungs, police were able to establish that he had not been in London for long before his death.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=723342003 (537 words)

	The Truth Seeker - Torso in Thames Link to 11 Murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A key witness has claimed 11 children were murdered by a demonic African cult linked to the death of a boy whose torso was found in the Thames.
		Detectives investigating the murder believe “Adam” was killed in a ritual ceremony by a west African cult in Britain.
		His torso was discovered clothed in only a pair of orange shorts in 2001.
	www.thetruthseeker.co.uk /print.asp?ID=981 (234 words)

	Torso Suspect ‘May Be Deported’
		Detectives want to continue to question an asylum seeker over the killing but officials are threatening to deport her.
		It is believed the crisis has been brought to the attention of Home Secretary David Blunkett who is being pressed to block the deportation of the suspect.
		The torso of the young African boy was discovered in the Thames near Tower Bridge in London a year ago.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /859/torso-suspect-may-be-deported (492 words)

	Ripper fear grips London
		The gruesome finds include the discovery of a severed female torso floating in the Thames, bags filled with female body parts in a canal and the latest victim found tied up and wrapped in a carpet.
		The body had not been dismembered like the previous victims, but investigators in the three cases will be discussing whether the cases are connected, a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said.
		In December, the upper torso of Zoe Parker, a 24-year-old prostitute, was found floating in the Thames near Chelsea Harbour in west London.
	www.walnet.org /csis/news/world_2001/gandm-010307.html (449 words)

	BBC News \| ENGLAND \| Thames torso 'was human sacrifice'
		A graphic depicting the boy in the orange shorts he was wearing when the body was found, has also been released.
		The youngster's torso was spotted floating in the Thames by a man walking across Tower Bridge on 21 September last year.
		The investigating officer, Detective Inspector Will O'Reilly, said the name found on the white sheet was a common name in the Yoruba area of Nigeria.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/1788452.stm (452 words)

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