morbidology:Just days before Halloween in 2014, residents of a quiet Long Island neighborhood were horrified to learn that what they thought was a festive prank was, in fact, real. Witnesses had seen a man drag a decapitated body from his apartment and kick it into the street, assuming it was part of a macabre Halloween display. One neighbour, attempting to move what he believed was a prop, made the grim discovery that it was the body of 66-year-old Patricia Ward, a beloved college professor. Police soon connected the crime to a second gruesome scene reported nearby - the body of Patricia’s 35-year-old son, Derek Ward, found on the train tracks. Investigators determined that Derek had murdered and beheaded his mother in their apartment before taking his own life by stepping in front of a moving train.