![]() Source:SuppliedYet, its beauty has been marred by death and crime since the first body was discovered in 1948. Picture: Google Leakin Park, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ![]() Source:SuppliedThe four little boys were the second group of bodies found in what has become known as a mass dumping ground of murdered victims in the US state of Maryland.To the naked eye, Baltimore’s Leakin Park - which adjoins Gwynns Falls Park - is a 485-hectare expanse of greenery, shadowed by romantic woodland and a natural forest largely untouched by humans.Families visit the park to ride steam engines and ponies, and participate in kids’ rides. Reginald Vernon Oates was committed to a mental facility in 1968 after murdering and mutilating four little boys. He continues to petition the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for release. Larry, 9, and Matt Jefferson, 5, Louis Hill, 10, and 10-year-old Lester Watson were murdered by janitor Reginald Vernon Oates, 18, who was found carrying a bag containing the genitalia of three of his young victims.When police examined the bodies, they also found that one boy had been decapitated, his little hands cut off, and another had had his throat cut.Oates was committed to a mental institution in 1968, where he has been since.
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