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True Crime Historian presents Sunday Magazine number 17, three international man hunts.

Episode 218 journeys across three continents as we hear the stories of wily police officers outwitting some very clever criminals. Later on we'll hear about a

chase back and forth across the Canadian-American border as a lieutenant and the Royal Mounted

Police begins to wonder if he can live up to their motto. We'll also travel to England and France

as Scotland Yard attempts to track down gangsters that seem to have been taking lessons from their American colleagues.

But first up, we head down Argentine way to hear about a family feud that gets settled in a grisly way.

I'm true crime historian Richard O. Jones and I give you three international man hunts. Strange murder of an aged Romeo, the South American way of disposing of Uncle Manuel's body,

another article in the true crime series by Peter Levin's.

On the afternoon of July 20, 1938, a lonely spot two miles out of Guinezou, Argentina,

became the center of intense police activity after a farmer made a gruesome discovery there.

Parts of a human body, as well as some clothing, lay scattered along the right-of-way of the railroad

connecting the cities of Tukuman and Cordoba.

At first glance, it appeared that the victim, a man, had been struck by a train,

but police quickly discovered that most of the body was missing.

There was a right arm, a left leg, plus scraps of trousers, and a head from which all the

skin had been peeled, obviously to forestall identification. The suit included an undershirt,

shorts, an overcoat, a suit coat, and the rest of the torn trousers, an overshirt and a waistband

or native scarf. All these articles were blood soaked, except the coats, indicating that the victim had not

been wearing these when he was slain. Underneath the pile of clothing, the investigators came upon further bits of

evidence, a set of false teeth, a razor blade specked with blood, and a billfold which contained a lottery

stub. Numerous cigarette butts were scattered about, indicating that the killer, or whoever had disposed of the human

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