Cordell Richards

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Cordell Richards
Name	Cordell Sherwin Richards
Sex	Male
Age	31
Missing from	Fort Walton Beach, Florida
Disappeared	February 2 - 3, 1999
Discovered	March 4, 1999
Location	Okaloosa County, Florida
Identified	April 1, 1999
Span	~1 month
Cause of death	Stabbing

Cordell Sherwin Richards (February 26, 1967 - February 3, 1999) was a man whose badly decomposed burned remains were located in a wooded area of northwest Florida a month after his murder. He was subsequently identified within a month of his discovery.

Richards was murdered by three juveniles over a two-day period between February 2 and 3, 1999. After being chained to a tree in the same area where his remains were later located, Richards was beaten with a baseball bat and burned alive. He survived this initial attack, but his killers returned to the crime scene the following day and cut his throat with a meat cleaver.

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Sources

• FindLaw
• Oxygen
• Crestview Bulletin
• Cordell Richards at Find a Grave
• The New Detectives ^{POSTMORTEM WARNING}