Discretion is advised.

Ten-minute murder.

Every member of law enforcement has a handful of cases that stick with them for the rest of their career.

These cases are full of unimaginable cruelty, making them think, how can someone do this to another person?

Cases where the perpetrator managed to dodge the consequences of their actions, or cases

that went cold despite the best effort of investigators.

For the Sheriff's Office in Mobile County, Alabama, there's one case

that fits all three of these criteria, the unsolved murder of Renee Michelle Bergeron. It was 1993

when the Mobile County Sheriff's Office received a panicked 911 call from a local motorist

who had seen something unusual lying in a ditch.

This strange object turned out to be the body of an unknown woman, left in a shallow ditch by the side of the road.

When emergency responders arrived, they immediately knew that this was no ordinary death.

The body's head had been cut off and was

missing from the crime scene, leaving only an unidentifiable torso. There were clear signs that

the woman had been tortured before she was killed. Her genitals had been heavily mutilated,

and a bladed weapon had been used to make a deep, vertical

incision between her bare breasts. For the paramedics who were responsible for moving the body,

this was one call-out that was hard to forget, even years later. Sheriff Tom Purvis later

described the unknown murderer as being someone who quote really had it in for the

woman someone who wanted to try to mask the identity and that was one reason for cutting the head off

in most true crime cases where a murderer tries to conceal their victim's identity think like a

detective for a moment and tell me why they'd try to do this.

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