Cops:Decapitated,Handless Body In Crawl Space Of Apt Building Likely Seth Foster

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Officials say the body is most likely that of Seth Barton, a homeless man...

The Anderson County coroner says the body that was found in a crawl space of a vacant Anderson building Wednesday was decapitated and had the hands and feet amputated.

Officials are now investigating the incident as a homicide.

Coroner Greg Shore says the discovered torso was originally believed to be that of a woman, but they now think it is of a man who was identified as 53-year-old Seth Barton Foster.

Police recognized a tattoo on Foster's body. Investigators say he was homeless and staying in the area.

The last time he was heard from was around the new year, according to his mother. The coroner thinks Foster's body had been in the abandoned building's crawl space between 15 and 30 days.

The missing body parts were nowhere to be found, according to investigators.

A motive is yet to be identified.

The coroner is waiting on the results of a DNA test to be completely sure it is the body of Foster
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http://www2.wspa.com/news/2012/feb/2...17/?hpt=ju_bn4

[CbabyRKO]

He looks fairly harmless honestly. I hope they find who did this whether he was an assclown or not no one (well...almost no one) deserves to be treated in such a callous manner. No head hands or feet? Someone really didn't want this guy identified...

[VXIII]

they must have cut off other body parts as well if at first they couldnt tell if he was a man or woman You would think...

[Obsolete]

He looks fairly harmless honestly.

It's the harmless looking ones you have to watch out for.

[Bohring]

It's the harmless looking ones you have to watch out for.

And the wonky-eyed.

[Whisper]

Head, hands, foot of Anderson body found

ANDERSON, SC (FOX Carolina) -
Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore said some of the severed parts of a body that was found under a vacant Anderson building Wednesday were found Friday.
The body was found about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday at 203 W. Earle St.
Lt. Tony Tilley, of the Anderson Police Department, said workers, who were at the building at the request of the owner, found the body in a crawl space at the rear of the building.
Shore said the body had been there between 15 and 30 days and was badly decomposed.
On Wednesday, investigators said the body appeared to be that of a woman. On Thursday, Shore said the body is that of a man. He said the decomposition made it difficult to determine the sex of the body.
Shore said the body was missing its head, hands and feet. He said the body was wearing a hooded, pullover jacket that read "Pendleton Baseball 2011." He said the man also had a Yosemite Sam tattoo on his right arm.
Shore said that tattoo helped him tentatively identify the body as that of 53-year-old Seth Foster. He said a tentative identification means his office is waiting on the results of DNA tests to confirm the identity.
On Friday, Tilley said city employees noticed a strange odor coming from an area near some railroad tracks and called investigators. The area, which is near the Meeting Place Restaurant, is about two blocks away from where Foster's body was found.
Shore said investigators found the head, hands and a foot at the second scene. He said the body parts were hidden in a crawl space. He said search dogs were brought in to help find the remaining foot.
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http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/170...-anderson-body

[cubby]

Victim of a serial killer who kept the missing foot as a souvenier.

[CbabyRKO]

No serial killers please. I'd rather this be one truly fucked up but isolated incident. How the fuck do you sleep after finding some shit like his? I would definitely be having nightmares...

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Seth Barton Foster's mother, Marie Whitney of Chuckey, Tenn., said she wants people to remember her son as a kind and loving man who "wouldn't hurt a fly."

"I want people to remember him as a wonderful person," she said, "and not just a homeless man who died a tragic death."

Foster, 53, stayed in Atlanta with a girlfriend and also at a halfway house for about five years. He lived in Tennessee, caring for his grandmother much of the time, for about five years and was sober there, Whitney said.
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Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore and his team initially planned to use DNA from Whitney to confirm that the body was Foster's.

Investigators were able to rehydrate the severed hands Friday and use them to positively identify Foster using fingerprints he had on file with the Anderson Police Department, Shore said.

Foster had a minor criminal record. In 2011 he pleaded guilty to giving false information to a police officer and to causing a disturbance.

Tilley said officers have been talking to homeless people, business owners and anyone who may have seen Foster in the weeks before his death.
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Whitney said the family is waiting for investigators to learn more before any memorials or remembrances can be planned.

"He had become estranged from a female friend here a few months ago and had been homeless since that time, but he seemed to want to live that way," Shore said. "One of my paramedics remembered him, because he saw him walking along a street a couple of months ago and stopped and gave him coffee and doughnuts."
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"He (Foster) was a gentleman, easygoing, a man down on his luck," Dennis said.

Foster was given a coat and some clothes a month or more ago but only visited Clean Start about once a month.

"He was always, whatever you gave him and whatever we could do, he was so thankful and gracious to us," Dennis said.

He said there are perhaps a few hundred homeless people in Anderson.

The homeless people who came to Clean Start on Friday were curious about Foster's death, he said, but did not give Dennis the impression they were frightened."It's a hard life," he said. "There's not much that frightens them. I guess not even this, although I'm not sure."

Dennis said people should not get a bad impression, and most homeless people have no quarrel with anyone.

"Almost all of them are not bad," he said. "Some would give you the shirt off their back, literally, if they had it. Some are going to school. We've been here for six years, and we have a lot of success stories."

http://www.independentmail.com/news/...-for-how-died/

[malq]

they must have cut off other body parts as well if at first they couldnt tell if he was a man or woman You would think...

Yeah that's a major red flag. That this is a little more than a random "oops I killed him hide the body" type of case..
In fact it seems personal, the killer spent a lot of time and thought as to disposing of the corpse. I bet he is smart, knows him and is in fairly decent shape. He also has access to these crawlspaces.

[Whisper]

1 charged with killing, dismembering SC man

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) - Police say an acquaintance has confessed to killing and dismembering a homeless man whose mutilated body was found at a downtown Anderson building.

Sgt. Tony Tilley says 44-year-old Leslie Warren Sandoval had been charged with murder and weapons possession. It wasn't known if he had an attorney.

Investigators say Sandoval voluntarily went with them late Friday night to talk about the death of 53-year-old Seth Barton Foster.

Sandoval told authorities he strangled Foster last month and used a knife to remove the Belton man's head, hands and feet. Police say they found the knife after Sandoval told him where it was.
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http://www.live5news.com/story/17020...mbering-sc-man

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Man Charged in Death Offers Victim's Foot for Deal

A homeless man charged with killing and dismembering his friend says he can't remember much about the crime.

But in a jailhouse interview, Leslie Sandoval said he remembers where he put the victim's missing left foot and is willing to tell a prosecutor if she will make him a deal.

Sandoval says he went on a January drinking binge with Seth Foster.
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Sandoval says he is confused about exactly what happened. But he disagrees with a coroner's finding he beat Foster and denies a claim from investigators that he confessed and gave them the knife used to dismember Foster.

http://www.1011now.com/news/national...151324065.html

[cubby]

I wouldn't make a deal just to locate his foot, his head maybe, but not just his foot, and beside that after 3 months won't be much left of it anyway unless he's got it in cold storage. But I doubt that, him being homeless and all.

He may not remember much but seems he knows what he didn't do, so it's not a big stretch to think he probably remembers what he did do.

Lock him up throw away the key.