decapitated

past tense of decapitate
as in beheaded
to cut off the head of a particularly gruesome series of murders in which the victims were decapitated

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“Decapitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitated. Accessed 20 Mar. 2023.

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