![]() He most likely bled to death within minutes of the attack. The body also shows signs of severe head trauma, which may have been the result of falling after being struck by the arrow. It wasn't until 2001 that scientists saw in an X-ray image that he has a flint arrowhead sunk deep into his left shoulder, which severed his subclavian artery. The South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, where his remains have been on exhibit since 1998, states that for a decade after his discovery, it was believed that his death had been an accident. ![]() For Ötzi, as he's come to be called, didn't die of natural causes. ![]() Five years later, he burned a man alive in a car for making fun of him. At the age of 13, he beat a local bully to death and disposed of the body in an icy river. But little did they know that they had just uncovered the world's oldest cold case. As a child, Richard The Iceman Kuklinski tortured and killed stray cats and dogs. According to the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Erika and Helmut Simon thought they'd come across the body of someone who had died in a recent mountaineering accident. On September 19, 1991, a pair of German hikers stumbled across a body frozen into the ice on the Ötztal Alps, on the border between Italy and Austria.
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