cannibalism

The recent food and fuel shortages in South Africa have become so severe that talks of cannibalism are being thrown around by those still fighting to keep their communities from literally burning down.

A Nigerian man beheaded his father then ate his neck. The New York Daily News reports: Police in Ebonyi State, southeastern Nigeria, say that Nwode Chukwudi attacked his father with a machete. When police were called he also threatened to attack anybody who tried to apprehend him before being overpowered by officers. It is not […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday. Gilbert Valle's fantasies about cannibalizing women — in one, he said he hoped to "cook her over low […]

MIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre assault alongside a busy South Florida highway told police that his attacker "just ripped me to ribbons." In a recorded interview with investigators, Ronald Poppo said the man who approached him initially seemed friendly. Then the man, Rudy Eugene, seemed […]

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities may never know why a Florida man viciously attacked and chewed on the face of an older homeless man in Miami last month after lab tests failed to find components of "bath salts" in the system of the assailant, who was killed by police. The tests detected only marijuana in the […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland cannibalism suspect is being transferred to a state mental hospital for a competency evaluation. Harford County prosecutors announced Tuesday that 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua's attorneys requested the evaluation and a judge ordered that he be transferred to Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center for the evaluation. Kinyua was also indicted by a […]

The woman who was the girlfriend of the now infamous "Miami Zombie," Rudy Eugene, is speaking out. Along with her attorney, Gloria Allred, Yovonka Bryant, told reporters there were warning signs that Eugene would eat off the face of a homeless man. In a prepared statement, Bryant, 27, said she wanted to describe the Eugene […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland college student accused of killing a housemate and eating his heart and part of his brain was kicked out of a ROTC program after he punched holes in the walls of the cadet computer lab and a military instructor referred to him as a "Virginia Tech waiting to happen," according […]

JOPPATOWNE, Md. (AP) — The college student suspected of killing and eating parts of a man staying at his home ranted months ago about "mass human sacrifices" on Facebook, one of several details that emerged Friday in the second gruesome case of alleged cannibalism in the U.S. in a week. Authorities say Alex Kinyua, 21, […]