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The On Friday, April 18, 1980, some fishermen hoping to catch their dinner, parked their car at the end of a little known road that accessed the North Canadian River.

This was off Britain Road near Tiny Jones, Oklahoma.

When they walked down to the riverbank, they saw something very odd.

In a patch of weeds was a human-shaped white

mound. It looked almost like a sand sculpture, except it was not made of sand. A fine white powder

encased a human body emphasizing the outline of her shape. It was the nude body of a white woman.

The fishermen summoned the authorities, and the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office

responded to the scene. They found that the woman's body was covered in quicklime, otherwise known

as calcium oxide. There is a bit of misconception about quicklime that it speeds up the decomposition

process. In fact, it inhibits the rotting of the corpse so that it is less odiferous and less of an

attractant to scavengers, whether insect or mammal. It was typically used in times of plague in mass

graves to prevent the spread of disease. Police believe that the person who covered this body in

Lyme mistook it for a substance that would rapidly break down the body, leaving little evidence

behind.

Instead, investigators found that, as Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office Captain Bob Green, told KFOR,

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