dismembered

Newspaper reporters flocked to Dumfries and Galloway after dismembered and disfigured human remains were discovered beneath a bridge over a stream.

Only, sometimes, these cadavers are not truly donated — and the dead person never consented to have their body dismembered.

When that didn’t work, she and others dismembered the body, placed the pieces in vacuum-sealed bags and dumped the body into the San Francisco Bay.

Metson murdered Holly in an act that police have described as "barbaric" - stabbing her multiple times before he dismembered her body into more than 200 pieces and disposed of them in the River Witham.

Now the dismembered statue has become a symbol of a city - and a nation - struggling to reckon with its darkest chapters.