Police: Idaho Teen Is Tied Up and Scalped
			
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By Associated Press
February 8, 2005, 5:20 PM EST

BOISE, Idaho -- A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and 
scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been 
an act of revenge by another woman. 

The girl, who had a punk-style mohawk haircut before the attack, 
is recovering at home. Doctors could not reattach her scalp, 
which was found near a hot spring. 

Police searched for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared after 
the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles from 
Boise. 

"When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped," said 
Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. "The top of her head, her hair, 
was completely cut off." 

Dahle and the victim, whose name was not released, were longtime 
acquaintances and hung out with a punk clique, he said. 

"The motive, as near as we've been told by witnesses, was 
retaliation for acting in a way that the adult perceived as 
being offensive to women as a gender," Braddock said. 
"According to their creed, if you disrespect women you are 
not allowed to wear a mohawk."



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