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Man Found Dead In The South; Is It Murder?
posted (December 24, 2014)

And that number of 121 murders may already be increasing. That's after a man was found dead on the Southern Highway this morning. On Tuesday morning, 20-year-old Juan Daniel Young Menjivar from Independence village was found between miles 42 and 43 on the Southern Highway near the Monkey River Junction in a pool of blood. Police say he had a head injury – but they can't say that it's foul play because around 1:00a.m. he was seen walking on the Southern Highway in Bella vista Village with another man and both appeared to be drunk. A postmortem examination certified the cause of death to be "Severe Head Injury due to Massive Skull Fracture". Today CEO Lovell said it could be murder number 122:…

Rt. Col George Lovell - CEO, Ministry of National Security

"With that recent body that was found on the southern highway between Bella Vista and Independence. Because, while from the looks of it appeared to be a hit and run or a vehicular road accident. According to the doctors, they have been signs that are consistent with chop wombs, so we need to look at that to see precisely where that is."

Police have detained a 26-year-old man pending investigation.

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