Severed Head Found Inside Plastic Bag in Louisiana Swamp Identified Years Later as Missing Texas Woman; Body Remains Missing Jerry Lambe
Sally Ann Hines
A severed human head found inside a plastic bag in a Louisiana swamp three years ago was identified as the remains of a woman from San Antonio, Texas who was reported missing in 2017, several localnewsoutlets reported. Cameron Parish Sheriff
Ron Johnson confirmed that the head first discovered by a litter abatement team working in the tall, swampy grass alongside Louisiana Highway 27 in March 2018 was identified as belonging to 58-year-old
Sally Ann Hines.
Authorities ran a DNA test to identify the remains, but were unable to find a match. The head was then sent to the Louisiana State University Faces lab, where scientists reverse engineered a facial reconstruction and released a composite image through the Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in 2019.
An anonymous tipster helped police identify the head found along a Louisiana highway in 2018 as that of a missing 58-year-old Sally Ann Hines, a San Antonio woman who went missing in 2017
A severed head found in a plastic bag along a stretch of highway in Louisiana in 2018 was identified this week as that of a 58-year-old Texas woman missing for more than three years, according to reports.
the u.s. military is launching a new attack on a familiar enemy fat in the budget. the secretary of defense announced plans to cut $100 billion out of it over the next five years. the budget is now about $750 billion a year. one target is a major command in virginia that employs nearly 6,000 people and government officials in the state democrats and republicans alike- - are up in arms. david martin has more on the planned cuts and why the pentagon says they re necessary. reporter: after nearly a decade of war-time spending, defense secretary gates today took dead aim at a bloated pentagon bureaucracy which spends a quarter of a trillion a year on overhead. the culture of endless money that has taken hold and must be replaced by a culture of savings and restraint. reporter: gates kicked off example after example of the bloat that has set in since 9/11. his own office has grown by 1,000 people. the number of generals, admirals and senior civilians by 400. it s called gr
he also plans to close the business transformation agency which you ve probably never heard of which which spends $340 million a year. also on the hit list, the joint forces command in norfolk, virginia, which, in fact, commands no forces but employs nearly 6,000 people and spends $240 million a year. beyond the specific cuts, gates is out to end the decades-old pattern of sharp wartime increases and steep peacetime declines. if you were to graph the defense budget going back the last 40 or 50 years, it would look like the e.k.g. of a fibrillating heart. reporter: he plans to cut $100 billion worth of fat over five years and spend it instead on things like shipbuilding. this is not about cutting the defense budget. this is about a rheal location internally. reporter: in other words, katie, he wants to take the money the pentagon spends on bureaucrats and spend it on weapons instead. couric: david, i know secretary gates said he plans to stay until the end of this ye