The never resolved mystery of the African child torso that was found in London

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The digital simulation of the torso that uncovered the crime.

Adam’s torso

The scotland yard, the police force of London And one of the most select in the world, activated all protocols when a call reported that there was a body floating in the Thames river. The remains were removed from the place and analyzed in the laboratory. The results were disparate: few certainties, but chilling.

The first concrete data was that it was a child, male, between 4 and 8 years old, and that it was originally from Africa, more specifically from Nigeria. Not being able to identify it, not even today more than two decades later, the researchers nicknamed him Adam. Maybe it was to put an entity to the victim of a brutal crime Satanic.

Necropsy determined that Adam It had been aged with an African plant that produces a brutal sedative effect as it leaves its conscious victims but unable to move. In that state of paralysis is that the child was slaughtered and then amputated his limbs. It was not an improvised job. The Forensic determined that the cuts had an amazing precision.

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The only garment that the victim of crime in London had.

The mystery about Adam’s murderer

By the characteristics of the crimeScotland Yard researchers pointed to an African witchcraft ritual that use remains of child bodies to make potions. But the investigation could not advance much more than that. And that’s why the request for public aid came to people.

Of course, in a world still moved by the attack of the Twin Towers, the rewards that were offered to clarify the crime of Adam. Only the following year, in mid -2002, the case began to have greater notoriety. Nelson Mandela himself issued an informative television network that was broadcast in almost all of Africa and where he asked for help to clarify the mystery.

In December 2006 the body of Adam was buried in a cemetery of London. How was he transferred alive from Africa to the United Kingdom? Where did the crime? Why did they throw part of their body on the Thames river? And, especially, who were the murderers? Those answers were also buried next to their body.

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