![]() ![]() The headless torso had been slashed and skinned. The object was a suitcase and in it were pieces of a corpse that were to baffle investigators over the years. It appeared to be a box and as it came near the bank, the husband managed to fish it out of the water. At 9:16 they saw a strange object floating downstream. That morning an El Paso couple went for a picnic along the bank of the Rio Grande near Montoya. The question not only of “who did it” but “who was the victim” has gone unanswered in a case that came to the attention of the authorities June 20, 1959. ![]() More: 'Operation Sea Lion' brings mammals to Washington Park Zoo in 1958 Gruesome discovery ![]() The question of who did it has never been answered in some of these famous cases which are revived in a Herald-Post series. Thousands of theories have been spun in efforts to explain why some of the victims were killed and who might have done the killings. Mysterious deaths in the desert have intrigued Southwesterners for many years. The second article ran the next day and featured William and Margret Patterson, which has become “one of the most intriguing puzzles of recent El Paso history.” Case of headless torso never solved The first article in that series, by Nancy Hamilton, ran Oct. In 1973, the El Paso Herald-Post ran a series of articles on unsolved desert deaths. ![]()
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