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Even by Baltimore standards, the murder of 16-year-old Brent Flanagan was beyond comprehension. The teenager was beaten and stabbed to death April 7, his body dismembered, and a house set on fire to cover up the crime.

“The dismemberment of the body showed the almost total [cutting] off of the legs from the knee down,” Baltimore Police Homicide Detective Roscoe Lewis wrote his report on Flanagan?s death. “[Flanagan?s] shoulder was almost severed with multiple stab wounds through the body.”