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Albert
Fish: "We had lunch. Grace sat on my lap and kissed me. I took
her to an empty house in Westchester I had already picked out. When we got
there, I told her to remain outside. She picked wildflowers. I went upstairs and
stripped all my clothes off. I knew if I did not, I would get her blood on them.
When all was ready I went to the window and called her. Then I hid in the closet
until she was in the room. When she saw me all naked she began to cry and tried
to run down the stairs. I grabbed her, and she said she would tell her mama.
First I striped her naked. How she did kick, bite and scratch. I choked her to
death, then cut her into small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms, cook
and eat it. How sweet and tender her little ass was roasted in the oven. It took
me nine days to eat her entire body. I did not fuck her, though I could have,
had I wished. She died a virgin."
"I always had a desire to inflict pain on others and to
have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that hurts.
The desire to inflict pain, that is all that is uppermost... What a thrill that
will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill.
The only one I haven't tried.... I am Christ! I am Christ!"
Richard
Chase: "The first person I killed was sort of an accident... The
second time, the people had made a lot of money and I was jealous. I was being
watched, and I shot this lady --got some blood out of it. I went to another
house, walked in, a whole family was there. I shot the whole family. Somebody
saw me there. I saw this girl. She had called the police and they had been
unable to locate me. Curt Silva's girlfriend --he was killed in a motorcycle
accident, as a couple of my friend were, and I had this idea that he was killed
through the syndicate, that he was in the Mafia, selling drugs. His girlfriend
remembered about Curt --I was trying to get information. She said she was
married to someone else and wouldn't talk to me. The whole syndicate was making
money by having my mom poison me. "
Ed
Kemper: "If I were seeing this patient without having any
history available or without getting the history from him, I would think that
we're dealing with a very well adjusted young man who had initiative,
intelligence and who was free of any psychiatric illness...In effect, we are
dealing with two different people when we talk of the 15 year boy who committed
the murder and the 23 year old man we see before us now... It is my opinion that
he has made a very excellent response to the years of treatment and
rehabilitation and I would see no psychiatric reason to consider him to be of
any danger to himself or to any member of society."
Jeffrey
Dahmer: Found by police in Dahmer's apartment: Skulls stripped of
hair and skin, stashed on the shelves and in the fridge. A pail full of hacked
off hands. A torso in the kitchen sink ripped open from the neck to groin. A jar
containing a pickled penis, a severed penis lying on the sink. Another severed
penis in a lobster pot in the fridge. Two 50 gallon garbage cans filled with
rotting torsos.
Ottis
Toole: Just like that Mexican wasn't going to let me out of the
house. I took an axe and chopped him all up. What made me... I've been meaning
to ask you... that time when I cooked some of these people? Why'd I do that?
Henry Lucas: I think it was just the hands doing it. I know a lot of
things we done, in human sight, are impossible to believe.
OT: When we took 'em out and cut 'em up... remember one time I said I
wanted me some ribs? Did that make me a cannibal?
HL: You wasn't a cannibal. It's the force of the devil, something forced
on us that we can't change. There's no reason denying what we become. We know
what we are. Ottis, you know everything you say is going on tape here?
OT: I know... Remember how I liked to pour some blood out on them?
Ed
Gein: "He stated that prior to the first grave robbing incident,
he had been reading adventure stories of head hunters and cannibals. He related
in detail one story of a man who had murdered a man, aquired his yacht and was
later captured and killed by head hunters... When asked about the sexual aspects
of this activity he commented on the great variations in age of the bodies. When
it was pointed out that he was interested only in the bodies of women, he stated
that the articles he read indicated that these heads were more valuable because
of their longer hair."
Andrei
Chikatilo: "Look at this useless thing. What do you think I
could do with that?... I am not a homosexual... I have milk in my breasts; I am
going to give birth!"
Nina Beletskaya: "I wanted to see this man who
could rip open my son's stomach and then stuff mud in his mouth so that he would
not cry out. I wanted to know what he looked like, to know which mother could
bear such an animal."
John
Haigh: "I saw before me a forest of crucifixes which gradually
turned into trees. At first there appeared to be dew, or rain, dripping from the
branches, but as I approached I realized it was blood. Suddenly the whole forest
began to writhe and the trees, stark and erect, to ooze blood...A man went to
each tree catching the blood...When the cup was full he approached me. 'Drink,'
he said, but I was unable to move."
Robin
Gecht: "Have you ever heard of the 'Ripper Crew murders'? Robin
Gecht, Tommy Kokorolies, Andy Kokorolies, and Eddie Sprietzer made up this
horrible group. They killed over 18 women. Robin Gecht was considered 'the
boss'. He was the most evil out of them all. I have recently began corresponding
with him. The way they killed these innocent women is unimaginable. They would
abduct a female, cut off one of her breast, and would take turns having sex with
the open wound. After they would take the severed breast home and each would
masturbate into the fresh portion of the breast. Then they would cut the breast
into little pieces and then eat it."
Peter
Kurten: "After my head has been chopped off, will I still be
able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from my
neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
Georg
Karl Grossmann: Another post-WWI-German degenerate that made a living
selling human flesh. Georg, a horrifying individual, was acquainted with every
kind of perversion, even bestiality. A former butcher, after nights of heavy
drinking, he would bring prostitutes home, have sex with them, and hack them
into pieces. The next day he would peddle their flesh as beef or pork. He was
arrested in August, 1921, when his landlord summoned the police to his door
following a loud altercation. Inside his pad they found a freshly butchered lass
ready to be chopped up. They also found evidence of at least three other divvied
up girls. The mad butcher laughed when he was given the death sentence and
proceeded to hang himself in jail.
Karl
Denke: A German innkeeper from Silesia with a taste for the
"long pig," Denke butchered at least thirty of his lodgers and kept
their pickled remains in the basement of his inn. When he was arrested in 1924
he told police that for the past three years he had eaten only human flesh.
Fritz
Haarmann: Haarmann stalked the train stations of post-WWI Hannover
searching for young boys. He enjoyed biting his prey to death and making
sausages with their remains. Always the enterprising killer, he sold the meat
and clothing of his victims in the local black markets.
Joaquim
Kroll: Kroll operated in the Ruhr-area of Germany for over 20 years
to the tune of 14 dead. In the mid-sixties, after his six murder, he tasted
human flesh and discovered an affinity for it. On July 3, 1976, police entered
his apartment and found plastic bags full of human flesh in the refrigerator as
well as a stew simmering on the stove with carrots, potatoes, and the hand of a
missing four-year-old girl.
Stanley Dean Baker:
When Stanley Dean Baker was stopped in Monterey County, California, for possible
involvement in a hit-and-run accident, he shocked the arresting officer when he
uttered the highly unusual phrase: "I have a problem, I'm a cannibal."
To prove his point he pulled out of his pocket a handful of human fingers. The
fingers, which Baker had been snacking on, belonged to the hand of a missing
22-year-old social worker named James Schlosser.Baker -- not a shy cannibal -- boasted to police about eating
Schlosser's heart raw, and claimed to have developed a taste for human flesh
while undergoing electroshock therapy for a nervous disorder. A prototypical
hippie Satanist, Baker is one of the growing number of modern cannibals
currently making headlines worldwide.
Issei Sagawa:
While taking classes at the famed Sorbonne, Issei Sagawa, the son of a wealthy
Tokyo industrialist, invited fellow student Renee Hartevelt to his apartment to
discuss literature. Once the unsuspecting "dinner guest" arrived, the
slightly-built Sagawa shot her in the back of the neck, had sex with her corpse,
and started nibbling on her nose and part of a breast. "It had no smell or
taste, and melted in my mouth like raw tuna," he wrote in In the Fog, his
post-cannibal best-selling account of his dinner with Renee. "Finally I was
eating a beautiful white woman, and thought nothing was so delicious!"In custody Sagawa was found incompetent to stand trial and
placed in the Paul Guiraud asylum in Paris. Through family connections he was
transferred to a hospital in Tokyo. And within fifteen months of hospitalization
his influential father secured his release. By then, Sagawa had become a
national celebrity, an accomplished author, and his "Parisian affair"
was parodied in the song "Too Much Blood" by the Rolling Stones.
Daniel Rakowitz:
In 1989 Daniel Rakowitz cannibalized his girlfriend, Monica Beerle, after
accidentally killing her during a sadistic beating in her apartment in New
York's Lower East Side. "I killed her and boiled her head," he told a
friend, "Then I made soup out of her brains. It tasted pretty good." A
small-time drug dealer and devil-worshipper, Rakowitz enjoyed his cannibalistic
trangression so much that he scrawled on the door of his apartment, Is it soup
yet? Welcome to Charlie Gein's Ranch East... Home of the Fine Young Cannibals.
Gary
Heidnik: Gary Heidnik's cannibalism grew out of his abusive
relationship to women and his willingness to break all taboos. Heidnik,
Philadelphia's most dysfunctional citizen, amassed a small fortune playing the
stock market while running his own church and gathering a harem of sex slaves
whom he fed dog food and kept chained to water pipes in the basement of his
home. When two of the slaves died, Gary, the resourceful type, dismembered and
cannibalized them. In an inspired twist of cruelty, he also chopped up pieces of
their flesh, mixed it with dog food and fed it to his other captives.
Dale
Merle Nelson: A sexually dysfunctional lumberjack, Dale fought his
impotence with violence and liquor. On September 5, 1970, tanked up with booze
and hatred, he drove to his wife's relatives' house where he killed a women and
her seven-year-old daughter. Feeling a bit hungry, he slit the young girl's gut
and munched on the half-digested food in her entrails. He then went to a
neighbor's house and killed all six inside, sodomizing an eight-year-old girl as
she died. Feeling hungry again, he returned to the first house and stole the
corpse he previously had for dinner.
Marcelo
Costa de Andrade: Over a nine-month period Marcelo tallied 14 dead in
the streets of Rio de Janeiro. His victims of choice were poor street urchins
whom he attracted to deserted areas, raped and strangled. He also practiced
necrophilia, decapitated one of the boys, crushed the head of another, and, in
two occasions, drank their blood. Later he confessed his vampiric thirst was
merely "to become as beautiful as them."
Arthur
Shawcross: 'They would wire up little kids or babies like land mines
and put them where we would pick them up. Once you touched a baby, it would blow
you to pieces. Fingers and teeth everywhere. I remember one time in Pleiku, a
small little girl about six walked into a bunch of GI's and exploded. Another
time there was this fat little girl sitting on a pile of dirt and was not
moving; crying yes, but not moving. We did not get too close, but we walked
around her. Good thing, too, she had a wire around her waist going down the
crack of her ass into the ground. We had a jeep with us. Put a loop under her
arms and a good hundred feet of rope between her and the jeep. That jeep took
off and that girl came off that pile in two ways, pulled and pushed. She left a
thirty foot crater and lost a foot also. When the GI's saw abandoned babies they
often didn't ask questions. They just gave them a wide berth and blew them up.
One time I ate part of one. That scared the mam-sans all to hell...'
Cannibalism
in Sebastopol: "These were people who cut up and ate corpses,
who killed their own children and ate them, I saw one. She had been brought to
the district centre under convoy. Her face was human but her eyes were those of
a wolf."
Cannibalism in North
Korea: On October 7, 1997, ABC News reported that starving North Koreans
are now resorting to cannibalism for sustenance. "People are going insane
with hunger. They even kill and eat their own infants," said a North Korean
military officer who fled to China with his family. Another North Korean who got
out said that in his home city of Wonson a husband and wife were executed in May
for murdering 50 children and storing their salted flesh in a hut.
New reports of cannibalism in North Korea have surfaced in a
TV documentary about the 200,000 orphans being raised by this Communist state.
Carla Garapedian, producer of Children of the Secret State, a BBC-Channel 4
co-production, said that her interviews with refugees escaping North Korea
revealed, "acts of unspeakable barbarism not seen since Pol Pot's
Cambodia". In an article for the Japanese Daily Yomiuri newspaper she
writes: "(The) footage is shocking. Starving children abandoned by the
state. Orphans thrown into state asylums and left to die." According to the
filmmaker farmers have been ordered by the government stop growing food and grow
opium. "The opium would then be processed by the state into heroin and then
sold abroad. The proceeds would go to arm the military."
In her article the documentarian describes the drawings of
15-year-old Jang Gil-su, who with his family fled North Korea and is now living
in China. The pictures, given to Garapedian by a refugee support group in Seoul,
depict families eating pine bark, rats, snakes and anything else to stay alive.
"All of the North Koreans we interviewed knew about it. Jang's picture of a
dismembered child in a cooking pot says more than any of the numbing
statistics," Garapedian wrote.
Indonesian Cannibalism: The
London-based Independent newspaper reported that up to 4 000 people -- not 300
as reported by the government -- died in riots in January and February of this
year in the remote Indonesian province of West Kalimantan on Borneo island. Many
of the dead were decapitated or had their hearts torn out. Richard Lloyd Parry,
a reporter for the Independent, said he had obtained evidence of "an ethnic
war of scarcely imaginable savagery, fought according to ancient principles of
black magic."
Muslim settlers from the island of Madura have repeatedly
clashed over land and jobs with the local tribesmen, the Dayaks, who once were
headhunters but have now been converted to Christianity. Witnesses described
seeing thousands of Dayaks, wearing war-paint, shooting Madurese with homemade
shotguns, cutting off their heads, drinking their blood and removing and eating
their hearts.
Nikolai
Dzhurmongaliev - Possibly Russia's most industrious cannibal, Nikolai
Dzhurmongaliev has claimed to have killed between seven to 100 women, and served
many of them to his dinner guests. Nikolai used at least 47 of his victims to
make ethnic dishes for his neighbors in the Russian republic of Kyargyzstan.
When arrested, Nikolai pointed out that two women could provide enough delicate
meat to keep him going for a week.
Jean-Bedel Bokassa: On November 3,
1996, Jean-Bedel Bokassa -- a.k.a. the "Ogre of Berengo" -- died of a
heart attack in the villa where he had lived since his release from prison three
years ago. A self-proclaimed emperor and president-for-life of Central Africa,
Bokassa was twice condemmed to death for the massacre of 100 children, some of
which, reportedly, he ate. In 1979, although having fathered 50 children with
his 15 wives, The children were slaughtered in a Bangui prison for protesting
against the cost of school uniforms.
Being a former leader, his two death sentences were commuted
to 20 years in prison by President Andre Kolingba. After being release from
prison, Bokassa settled in a villa in Bangui, the capital of Central Africa.
According to his son, the former cannibal remained lucid to the very end.
Ironically, the same radio station that condemmed and vilified his actions ten
years before, now described him as an "illustrious" national heroe.
Bokassa left behind 15 wives and more than 50 children.
Clifford Orji &
Tahiru - Two suspected Nigerian cannibals were arrested under a bridge in
Lagos after residents heard the cries of a woman one of them he was about to
kill. Remains of roasted human parts were recovered in their shack under under a
bridge in Lagos. "Some of the limbs and feet on the man's grill are
believed to be those of a young woman, going by the size of the feet and the
long black permed hair," the Guardian newspaper reported, "The rest of
the body ... was said to have been eaten up before the arrest." The bizarre
incident sent shockwaves through Lagos, causing a massive traffic jam as
thousands of spectators massed around the area to catch a glimpse of the
cannibal hut.
The suspects were identified as Clifford Orji and
Tahiru. The
cannibal duo, who appear to be mildly retarded, allegedly dug holes on the
ground for unwary passers-by to fall into, before killing them and roasting
their bodies. They allegedly preferred attacking women, especially "young,
fine girls with long hairs... We wanted to stop women from wearing wigs."
Orji, who is the more vocal of the duo, claimed to have come
"from America." He confessed that they enjoyed raping their victims
before munching on their flesh. Orji said he usually went out to hunt for their
victims, while Tahiru acted as the butcher.
The demented killer added: " I just look unto the
forehead of any woman, blow the air from my mouth as directed by the spirit,
then, the woman will follow me. When I get to the underbridge, I will have
sexual affair with her to a state of unconsciousness before we slaughter her and
roast. I am not alone, I have between four to 10 people. They take their own
parts and go while I wait again for another meat." It is unclear how many
victims the serial cannibal-couple killed and ate. Neighbors said the two
killers lived under the brigde of the Airport Road for years and were suspected
of murdering people to sell their body parts for rituals.
Ssande Sserwadda - "I'm proud
to be a cannibal. My brother is a cannibal, and my father is a cannibal. His
father was a cannibal as was his father's father," Ssande Sserwadda told
Chief Magistrate Isaac Muwata in a packed court in Luweero. "We are a
family of cannibals, we always have been, and I feel queasy if I go too long
without tasting human meat. But just because we like to eat human flesh, does
that mean we're bad people?"
Sserwadda, a twenty-three-year-old factory worker from
Luganda,
was defending himself after being arrested for trespassing on a burial site,
contrary to section 114 of the Ugandan Penal Code Act. "None of us has ever
killed anybody, that would be immoral. But we like our human flesh, and we don't
see anything wrong in digging up corpses and eating them, after they've been
buried. We don't like to see the meat going to waste. And we always wait at
least a week after the funeral, out of respect to the relatives, and also
because the meat tastes much better once it's matured. I have personally eaten
parts of seven corpses in the past year, but my brother is the really greedy
one. He's eaten dozens."
After Sserwadda had been convicted and sentenced to three
years imprisonment, he stunned prison warders by asking if he could take with
him the human leg bone which had earlier been shown in court as an exhibit.
"It's still got plenty of meat on it. It's a shame to let it go to
waste." He picked his teeth at the judge and jury as he was escorted from
the court. (The New Vision (Uganda), 3/2/01. Spotter: Dr Peter Fellows)
David
Harker - On February, 1999, cannibal killer David Harker admitted to
manslaughter in the death of 32-year-old Julie Paterson, on grounds of
diminished responsibility. Prosecutor Paul Worsley told Teesside Crown Court in
northeast England that Harker confided to a psychiatrist that he chopped up his
victim and ate part of her body with pasta and cheese. Harker, 24, who has the
words "Subhuman" and "Disorder" tattooed on his scalp,
claimed he strangled mother-of-four Julie Paterson with her tights after he
"got bored" during a sex session. He told psychiatrists he then had
sex with her before chopping off her head and limbs, slicing flesh from her
thigh, skinning it and cooking it.
Possible Cambodian Cannibal Killer -
Police in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, said they suspect that a young
woman may have been killed by a cannibal and made into soup. Scavengers at a
dump found a pair of feet and some bones wrapped in plastic while picking
through rubbish. Police said they found a lung, some hair, two feet, a leg bone
and three ribs. The bones had knife marks on them. "If it was just a
killing why do they need to cut the flesh from the body," said senior
criminal investigator, Ek Kreth. "We're investigating the possibility she
might have been killed for making soup," Ek Kreth added. He did not
elaborate.
Nicolas Claux -
Dubbed the "Vampire of Paris" by the French press, this 22-year-old
mortician was arrested in the summer of 1994 after a series of random homophobic
.22 caliber shootings. In custody, Claux confessed to one murder, claiming to be
a practicing satanist. A search of his apartement turned up unidentified
skeletal remains, blood bags stolen from a hospital's blood bank, funeral jars
filled with human ashes, and hundreds of hardcore S/M videotapes.
Described by court psychatrists as being a "nearly
psychotic sadist", Nico shocked investigators when he described how he
enjoyed eating strips of muscles from the corpse lying on the slab of the St.
Joseph hospital mortuary. He also described how he enjoyed prowling Parisian
cemetaries, digging up fresh graves, and drinking human blood mixed with human
ashes and powder protein.
Due to the lack of evidence connecting him to the other
crimes, Nico was only charged with one count of premeditated murder and six
counts of grave robberies. During his trial, psychatrists confirmed that he
couldn't be held entirely responsible for his crimes. In may 1997, he
unrepentant necrophilic cannibal was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 12
years of prison. He will be eligible for parole in late 2000.
Dorangel Vargas -
In a country with hardly any serial killer history, the self-confessed cannibal
Dorangel Vargas has become a Venezuelan media darling. Dubbed the "Hannibal
Lecter of the Andes" by the local press, Vargas claims to have eaten up to
10 men in the last two years. He was arrested on February, 1999, in the city of
San Cristobal, near to the Colombian border.
"Sure I eat people," the candid cannibal told
reporters. "Anyone can eat human flesh, but you have to wash and garnish it
well to avoid diseases... I only eat the parts with muscles, particularly thighs
and calves which are my favorite ... I make a very tasty stew with the tongue
and I use the eyes to make a nutritious and healthy soup." Vargas said he
prefers the taste of men to women and will not eat hands, feet or testicles,
"although I've been on the point of trying them on various occasions."
He said he rejected overweight men because they had too much cholesterol, and
the elderly were spared because their flesh "is contaminated and very
tough."
However, notwithstanding the large amount of bones found
buried around his shack, many doubt the veracity of his story. Press reports
claim that he preyed on homeless men and laborers whom he clubbed to death with
a metal tube, but Vargas said he was "given" the bodies by various
people, including the police. Some locals speculate that Vargas may be being
used as a scapegoat for a ring of human organ traffickers. Congress said it
planned to investigate reports that Vargas is a former mental hospital patient
who was arrested on similar charges four years ago but released shortly
afterward.
Marc V. Sappington
- A man in Kansas City was charged with three counts of first-degree
murder in a case that investigators said involved "deviant cannibalistic
tendencies." Marc V. Sappington, 21, was charged with killing three men
since April 7. He was being held on $2 million bond. Kansas City, Kan., Police
Lt. Vince Davenport, commander of the homicide division, said evidence indicated
cannibalism was the motivation. Police also said Sappington had a fascination
with Jeffrey Dahmer.
Sappington was taken into custody April 12 for questioning in
the death of 16-year-old Alton "Fred" Brown, whose dismembered body
was found in Sappington's basement. Brown's body was found two days before after
a resident of the home noticed blood on the basement stairs and called police.
Authorities said Brown had been shot to death, with limbs severed. Sappington
also was charged with the murders of Terry Green, 25, and Michael Weaver, 22.
Kevin Artz - A
Jackson man was been charged with murdering his wife, then cutting her up and
cooking her. After 12 years of marriage Kevin Artz said he looked at his wife
Patricia and saw the devil staring back. In July of 1999Artz allegedly struck
his wife with a metal pipe, dismembered her body and cooked it for two days at
their family restaurant. Police arrested Artz while he was putting a box that
contained the severed head of his wife on a nearby porch. Several weeks prior to
the alleged murder Artz underwent brain surgery to remove a large blood clot.
Even though he has been found competent to stand trial,
several defense experts are now in the process of testifying that the operation
caused him to go insane. Some of Artz' neighbors said this was the only
explanation they could accept. "The cops were never called there,"
said Rose Hubbell. "We never heard of any domestic violence or repeated
police scenes there at all." Neighbors said they are grateful that the
restaurant has now been transformed into an entirely different kind of business.
Cannibalism in Congo
In January 2003 a U.N. team was dispatched to Congo to investigate reports that
rebel troops from the Congolese Liberation Movement and its allied Congolese
Rally for Democracy-National have been killing and eating Pygmies in the
northeastern province of Ituri. "The U.N. is taking these accusations very
seriously," said Manodje Mounoubai of the U.N. mission in Congo. The
six-person team has been in the province of Ituri looking into the accusations.
The two rebel factions often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests
as they fight to oust the rival rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy-Liberation
from mineral-rich areas of Ituri province, a U.N. official said. If the expert
hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said.
Speaking by telephone from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa,
Mounoubai declined to give further information until investigators leave the
area. Other U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
investigators have established that the charges are credible. The Program for
Aid to Pygmies in Beni, a Congolese advocacy group, called for help for the
Pygmies, who it said were threatened with extinction. "It is unacceptable
that the international community focuses on protecting endangered animals like
the okapi, the mountain gorilla and the rhinoceros and pays no attention to the
fate of human beings like ... the Pygmies, who are nevertheless every bit as
much in danger of extinction," the group said.
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