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Scotland's Case of the Severed Head on the Beach

By David Lohr

By all accounts revealed so far at the murder trial of Lithuanian immigrant Vitas Plytnykas, 41, March 29, 2008 had been the last day of life for Jolanta Bledaite, 35, a female immigrant also from Lithuania.  When she failed to report to work that day, she was promptly missed by others.  It was completely out of character for her to not show up for work without calling in and telling someone why.  Jolanta, who was employed as a farm worker, was described as "very reliable." "She didn't have a flamboyant lifestyle," Philip Brown, 58, area manager of an employment agency that specializes in providing farm workers to those needing them, said in court.  "She kept to herself." Trial testimony recently revealed that two sisters playing on a beach near Arbroath, Scotland, northeast of Edinburgh, had discovered a black bag on the sand a few feet from the water, and that it had been their discovery that had broken the case of a missing person and launched it into the realm of a murder investigation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).