Man's body recovered from Mississippi River!

2-28-2004 Minnesota:

Almost four months after a legally blind 73-year-old man (a registered sex offender) disappeared from his St. Paul home, his body was recovered from the Mississippi River, police reported Friday..

Kimberly Jackson, a daughter-in-law, said the family is suspicious about the death because he did not have his house keys and was found without shoes or a jacket.

Police checked the man's house after the disappearance and found nothing missing or suspicious, Schnell said. Jackson was sentenced in Hennepin County in 1981 for attempted incest with a minor and incest with a minor. He was in and out of prison for more than a decade, last getting out in the mid-1990s. (Star Tribune)

'KILLED BY HIS PALS'

3-22-2007 United Kingdom:
FOUR neighbours tortured a disabled man then drowned him because they thought he was a paedophile, a court heard.

Sean Miles, 37, who had an IQ of just 50, was stripped, slashed with a knife and battered with a golf club last May.

He was then marched to the river where he was drowned by the gang he thought were his friends.

Edward Doyle, 34, Terry McMasters, 24, and sisters Tracey, 36, and Karen Fathers, 35, of Littlemoor, Oxford, all deny murder.

Sean's carers said: "He was a sweet man who never did any harm."

The trial at Oxford crown court continues. ..more.. by Mirror.uk.co