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• v  destroy or injure severely
• v  alter so as to make unrecognizable
• v  destroy or injure severely
  mutilated bodies
• s  having a part of the body crippled or disabled

• Finally, in May, a battered, mutilated little corpse was found by the side of the road, not far from the Lindberghs' home.
• Between August 7 and November 10 of that year, five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of Londons East End, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated in a way .
• The four men were dragged from their cars, mutilated by a mob and set on fire.

• mutilate
• mangle
• cut up
• murder
• mar
• maimed

News & Articles

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• Calif. serial killer Richard Ramirez dies
  LOS ANGELES — Richard Ramirez, the demonic serial killer known as the “Night Stalker’’ who left satanic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims’ bodies during a reign of terror in the 1980s, died early Friday in a hospital, a prison official said.        
  June 14, 2013 - Boston Globe
• SPCA: Mutilated pit bull puppies abandoned in North York
  The SPCA is investigating who left five severely-mutilated pit bull puppies in a North York trash bin last week, according to Melissa Smith, the agency's executive director.
  June 13, 2013 - York Daily Record
• Five puppies mutilated, dumped in a dumpster while still alive
  In York County, the SPCA is investigating after five puppies were found mutilated and near death in a dumpster. According to the York Daily Record, the puppies looked like pit bulls, they still had their umbilical cords attached and their legs were missing. Humane officers say it does not look like a human cut the legs off, rather an attack from another dog. The puppies were in such horrific ...
  June 13, 2013 - WHP CBS 21 Harrisburg

Quotes

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• Christopher Buckley in Washington Post
  Paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, the younger Buckley said: "I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me." "Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by Liberals,...
• Nyamko Sabuni in International Herald Tribune
  I know there are girls who cannot choose with whom to marry. I know there are girls whose genitals are mutilated. I know there are girls whose virginity is checked before they marry,Sabuni said. "For me it's unacceptable that these...
• Sheikh Hasina in WA today
  We have so far removed 10 dead bodies but there are still many more we need to dig out. They are badly decomposed and many are mutilated,fire service operations chief Sheikh Mohammad Shahjalal said. "It's beyond comprehension how one human...