Case 18: A Trackless Death - The Silverstone Murder (1999)
After following up on a missing persons report, local police uncovered a mysterious death north of Boston in the winter of 1999.
When Reese Silverstone failed to arrive at work at 7:00 PM on a cold Saturday night, no one was surprised. The high school dropout was frequently late to work and rarely had an excuse. However, when he failed to show up to work once more on Monday and did not answer his phone, people became concerned.
Mr Silverstone's body was found that evening face down in a snowy field of Thorn Hill Park. His death was a grisly one: his head had been snapped backwards, and his spine had been dislocated and twisted 180 degrees above the hips. Autopsy reports showed signs of struggle and abrasions around the head and arms, but no foreign particulates or claw marks could be found.
Forensic experts at the scene found no footprints or tracks 100 ft from the body, excluding those of the investigating officers', leaving the question as to how the sheep got there. It had not snowed for several days, so it was impossible that snow could have fallen over footprints - especially as there was no new snow on Reese himself.
Based on the soft impact of the body in the snow, all that could be determined by experts was that Reese had been twisted around and killed before being laid very slowly onto the ground - apparently in mid-air by a being of extreme power. Silverstone's footprints were found at to the edge of the clearing with signs of stress, but to have been thrown into the clearing would have caused considerable impact trauma.
Official reports list the incident as a hoax body dump, though no explanation of how a body could have been placed without tracks in the small clearing has ever been offered.
(Victor Morgan, The Unexplained World, 1st edition, p.75)
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