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“No Foul Play”- Severed Head and Body Parts Found After Young Man Says He’s Scared for His Life
Before his separated remains were recovered, Rasheem Carter sent haunting messages to his mother saying truckloads of men were hunting him down.
Certain cases capture the public’s attention and leave a lasting impact on the communities they touch. One such case is the Rasheem Carter mystery. The disappearance and untimely demise of a young father, under suspicious circumstances, has left a web of unanswered questions surrounding his mysterious death.
Was he murdered?
In an unexpected phone call, Mississippi Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston contacted Rasheem’s distraught mother, asking her to identify an individual captured on a hunter’s camera in a wooded area south of Taylorsville. The man in the picture resembled her son.
Just a day later the missing persons story took a devastating turn with the discovery of human remains.
What led Rasheem Carter to the deer park that day, and why was his body in such a grisly state? Were there any witnesses? What events unfolded in the days and weeks leading up to his brutal death?