Usually it involves a mutilated body or a pile of bodies, or just a head and a handwritten sign.

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Arab residents blamed Kurds for kidnapping and killing an Arab resident, whose badly mutilated body was found Thursday.

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His mutilated body was found near the Dead Sea some days later.

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The sister of a woman whose mutilated body was found in a Dutch canal has told the Old Bailey that she had predicted her own death.

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Officers found him 11 months later - but by that time Tobin had killed Miss Kluk and hidden her mutilated body under the floor of Glasgow's St Patrick's Church.

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Her body was mutilated and she was taken to hospital where she died.

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His body was not discovered until the following morning, mutilated by machete blows.

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