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Podcast: True Crime Stories
Episode: Decapitated Body In Washington, DC
Description: A suspect is facing charges after a decapitated and decomposing human body was discovered weeks ago in a backyard in Northeast, Washington, DC. A 32-year-old man reported finding a decapitated, dismembered, and “mummified” body in his backyard earlier this month but later turned himself in and told police, “I did it.”LaVaughn Barnes has been charged with first-degree murder while armed in the death of a handyman he said had done work for him on several occasions at his northeast Washington, D.C., home. Police identified the dead man as Abdulio Arias-Lopez and said he had a bullet wound in the abdo...