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A fact from Whitehall Mystery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Scotland Yard, one of the world's most iconic police institutions, was built overtop the site of an unsolved murder?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Dimba?

Should this be dismembered? what is a 'dimba' body?

"built on top of"

It has become a point of trivia and irony that Scotland Yard, one of the world's best-known police agencies, is built overtop the crime scene of an unsolved murder.

It's not so much that it's built overtop it, is it? Mostly the point of irony is that somebody snuck right into the under-construction Scotland Yard building, and, undetected, placed there the remains of his murdered victim. Tempshill (talk) 03:22, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, maybe it should be re-worded. ☺ Spiby ☻ 14:13, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The thing is, nobody is certain she was a murder victim. No cause of death were found. Sir John Falstaff (talk) 02:24, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thames Torso Murders

Thames Torso Murders redirects here - but they seem to be another case or cases - http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/thames-torso-murders.html -- Beardo (talk) 23:14, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong location

The 1837 plan shows another site entirely: the 'old', original Scotland Yard. This is different from the first New Scotland Yard building, which is where the torso and leg were found. 2A00:23C7:DF92:1501:D070:1E3A:9ACF:486A (talk) 14:44, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Someone should get rid of that map. It shows a completely wrong location that has nothing to do with the New Scotland Yard building being constructed n 1888. 2A00:23C7:DF92:1501:C876:C12E:6934:138B (talk) 14:42, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]