According to some accounts, the name "Chopper" stemmed from this episode, though others attributed it to his habit of cutting off his victims' toes using boltcutters.
A single gram, evenly dispersed, could kill more than one million people, causing "symmetric, descending, flaccid paralysis" and eventually cutting off its victims' power to breathe, swallow, communicate or see, while leaving their cognition all too intact.
The cutting off of communications confirmed this.
My sister's voice was cutting off.
Someone who's cutting off his victim's feet and chucking them in the ocean?
The state also claims the group is also associated with a spate of robberies and assaults over a period of 12 days in 1998 Henan's Tanghe County, involving cutting off the ears of victims and breaking their limbs.
Howell allegedly took a hammer to another victim, cutting off her fingers.
At the same time, he expels humanitarian aid workers, cutting off subsistence from millions of victims.
As a Boston merchant reported to London, the Indians, in town after town, tortured and mutilated their victims, "either cutting off the Head, ripping open the Belly, or skulping the Head of Skin and Hair, and hanging them up as Trophies; wearing Men's Fingers as Bracelets about their Necks, and Stripes of their Skins which they dresse for Belts".
The crimes - which took place over five years - included cutting off the limbs of their victims and cutting open pregnant women to settle bets over the sex of their unborn children, he said.
