On September 21st, 2001, a torso was discovered in the river Thames near Tower Bridge in London, England.

The unidentified remains belonged to a black male around 4 to 8 years old who had been wearing The remains

became known as Adam, and the remains

became known as Adam, and the investigation would reveal

something horrific had happened to the boy after coming into contact with a monster. Oh, The autopsy showed that Adam had been poisoned, his throat had been cut to drain the blood from his body, and his head and limbs had been removed from his torso.

Further forensic testing examined his stomach contents and traced minerals in his bones to establish that Adam had only been in the United Kingdom for a few days or weeks before he was murdered,

and that he likely came from a region near southwestern Nigeria

near Benin City, known as the birthplace of Voodoo.

That evidence led investigators to believe that Adam was trafficked to the UK specifically to be the victim of a ritual sacrifice performed by a witch doctor that uses a child's body parts to make medicinal potions called

Muti. Unable to find a match for Adam and databases of missing children in Britain

and Europe, investigators made requests to the public for assistance, however the story didn't get them

any leads.

The police eventually traveled to Nigeria and launched a campaign to track Adam's parents.

Despite visiting elementary schools and looking at reported missing children in the region, there was no success.

In 2002, a Nigerian woman named Joyce Osegid had been living in Glasgow and authorities suspected her to have been involved in the child's death.

But there wasn't enough evidence to charge her so she was deported back to her home country.

She was not a parent of the boy, but had previously been living in Germany when his parents

got deported and she

said the boy was taken by somebody else while she still lived in Germany and then eventually she moved to Scotland.

In February of 2013 the BBC was contacted by Joyce who said

she was prepared to tell them everything she knew about the boy. The BBC traveled

to Nigeria and met with the woman and she revealed that Adam's real name was in fact Patrick Erhabor.

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