Posted on 01/09/2007 5:34:20 PM PST by mcg2000
PARIS, Jan 5 (Reuters Life!) - A French prisoner who killed his cellmate "very probably" ate some of the victim's body parts, a prosecutor in the northern town of Rouen said on Friday.
The victim's body was discovered in a prison cell on Wednesday, with a large wound to the chest. The alleged killer, who shared the cell, told investigators he had removed and eaten his victim's heart.
Investigators initially discounted the possibility of cannibalism after the victim's heart was "found intact in its usual place and in its membrane which was also intact," Rouen state prosecutor Joseph Schmit said in a statement.
However an autopsy revealed that pieces of muscle from the victim's rib area and part of his lung were missing.
"The absence of these anatomic elements, which have not been found on the scene of the crime, render the confessions of cannibalism by the presumed perpetrator of the crime very probable," Schmit said.
The case comes less than a year after a court in Germany sentenced Armin Meiwes, the cannibal who killed and ate a willing victim, to life in prison.
The alleged Rouen killer and another cellmate who admitted he had not been asleep at the time of the crime, were in temporary custody and would be placed under formal investigation for premeditated murder, Schmit said.
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vampirism? just drive a wooden stake through the perp, to be sure.
No fava beans?
was he French? probably tasted like chicken.
And the French laugh at our cuisine!!!!!
Well its easy to get confused what with the mess and all ....besides sometimes you feel like a heart and sometimes you dont
Oh, and in case you're wondering, Paddlefish isn't that good (unless you're Sofia Milos of CSI:Miami, or Jen Walcott, or Shay Laren, but I digress).
The prisoner was later determined to have spent his professional life as an IRS agent.
Lung?
You gotta be pretty hungry to eat lung.
Oh. Sorry. Or French. Those French eat some funky stuff.
You want fries with that?
This morning I glanced at some health thing one of my kids brought home from school. It contained the now required anti-smoking blurb which include two pictures, one of normal healthy lungs and another of the lungs of what had to have been a long term smoker.
I don't care how hungry I get, I'm not eating the lungs of some one that smoked. They look nasty.
Yeah, a million yeafrs ago I was a hosptial chaplain and we had a health show and there was a chunk o' smoker's lung. It would at least need a very strong marinade.
Can't tell the difference between a heart and a lung.
Parts is parts.
LOL! That's GREAT!
I got my name because when I was a sheep farmer one of the ewes came down with rabies that day after we'd drenched the whole flock -- ONE of the three of us had had our hands in her mouth, so all three of us got the shot series, and I go the nickname -- which might have had to do with my sacrificial offer to skip the shots and just go around biting specific people until I died.
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