1.   Forensic experts who study homicide say that severing bodies is a rare occurrence.

2.   Investigators say Holmer was strangled, and that her body was severed afterward, possibly with a saw.

3.   Investigators say that Holmer was strangled, and that her body was severed afterward, possibly with a saw.

4.   Seghorn and others questioned the transportation motive for severing the body, and Latham suggested that the mutilation may have been driven by a desire to mark the victim.

5.   They speculate that the killer may have severed the body to cover up a sex crime or to make it easier to transport the corpse without being seen.

6.   They speculate that the killer may have severed the body to cover up a sex crime.

7.   Palestinian security and medical sources charged that the man, whose body was severed, was shot at close range by tank shells.