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Doug Owsley, division head for Physical Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, displays the skull of "Jane of Jamestown" during a news conference at the museum in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Scientists announced during the news conference that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by turning to cannibalism presenting the discovery of the bones of a 14-year-old girl, "Jane" that show clear signs that she was cannibalized. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Scientists find evidence of cannibalism of girl at Jamestown

Last updated Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 2:18pm

WASHINGTON — The first chops, to the forehead, did not go through the bone and are perhaps evidence of hesitancy about the task. The next set, after the body was rolled over, were more effective. One cut split the skull all the way to the base.

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FILE- In this Feb. 25, 2013, courtroom sketch, former New York City Police Officer Gilberto Valle, second right, is seated at federal court in New York. Currently on trial for kidnapping conspiracy, told investigators after his arrest that his fascination with the idea of cannibalism set him on a downward spiral that was wrecking his personal life, an FBI agent testified Friday, March 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams, File)

Jurors disturbed by images shown at 'Cannibal Cop' trial

Larry Neumeister, Tom Hays The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 4, 2013 - 1:17pm

NEW YORK — Jurors appeared uncomfortable Monday as prosecutors showed a video of a screaming woman being cooked alive over an open flame and other disturbing images from websites devoted to torturing and eating women — evidence prosecutors say proves a New York City police officer was involved in a cannibalism plot.

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Wife testifies against accused 'Cannibal Cop'

Larry Neumeister, Tom Hays The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 25, 2013 - 7:02pm

NEW YORK -- The estranged wife of a police officer struggled to keep her composure Monday as she testified about discovering shocking online chats and other evidence on his computer showing he had discussed killing her and abducting, torturing and eating other women.

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A police officer stands guard outside the 26th precinct where police officer Gilberto Valle worked out of, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in New York. Valle was charged Thursday in a ghoulish plot to kidnap and torture women and then cook and eat their body parts. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Cop charged in plot to kidnap, cook, eat women

Collen Long, Tom Hays The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 4:40pm

NEW YORK — A city police officer was charged Thursday with leading a ghoulish double life by using a law enforcement database and fetish chat rooms to dream up a plot to torture women and then cook and eat their body parts.

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Alexander Kinyua, right, an electrical engineering student at Morgan State University, was indicted for one count each of first degree murder and carrying a weapon with an intent to injure Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Source: Harford County Sheriff's Office

Accused brain-eating cannibal moved to mental hospital

Justin Fenton The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 5:09pm

BALTIMORE - Alexander Kinyua, the 21-year-old accused of killing a man and eating his organs, has been formally indicted on charges of first-degree murder and assault and is being held at a Maryland state mental hospital, the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

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Face-eating attacker had no human flesh in stomach

David Ovalle The Miami Herald

Last updated Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 8:21am

MIAMI - The world is calling Rudy Eugene, who chewed off a homeless man’s face, a cannibal - but an autopsy shows there was no human flesh in his stomach.

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Site of face-eating attack becomes tour bus attraction

Meredith Rutland The Miami Herald

Last updated Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 6:06pm

MIAMI - Somewhere between the story of the man who got nailed by the Metrorail while hanging a Marlins banner on the track and the tale of a chef who bled out from a gunshot to the groin, Paul George will tell his audience about the "Miami cannibal."

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Face-eating victim faces numerous surgeries, rehab

Mike Clary Sun Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 5:20pm

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

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This photo provided by the Montreal Police Service, Luka Rocco Magnotta is shown in a photo released Tuesday, June 5, 2012. Magnotta told a judge Tuesday he will not fight his extradition from Germany to Canada, Berlin police say. Magnotta is wanted in Canada on several charges, including first-degree murder, in connection with the killing and dismemberment of Chinese national Jun Lin. (AP Photo/Montreal Police Service via The Canadian Press)

So what does human flesh taste like?

Brian Palmer Slate

Last updated Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 5:02pm

Police in Berlin apprehended Luka Rocco Magnotta, the Canadian man accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student. According to some reports, Magnotta ate part of his victim's body. In the last two weeks cannibalism incidents have been reported in Florida, Maryland and Sweden. What does human flesh taste like?

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Video shows suspect eating body parts of victim

David Rising, Sean Farrell The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 1:28pm

MONTREAL -- Video footage from the death and dismembering of a Chinese student seems to show the suspect eating the body, Canadian police said Tuesday. The porn actor suspected in the killing, meanwhile, told authorities in Germany he would not fight extradition to Canada.

Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said that although police have not been able to conclusively confirm it, they suspect Luka Magnotta did eat parts of the body.

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This undated photo provided by the Hartford County Sheriff's Office shows Alexander Kinyua. Kinyua, a 21-year-old Kenyan college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died. (AP Photo/Hartford County Sheriff's Office)

Glut of cannibalism cases a trend that can feed on itself

Thomas Hargrove Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:29pm

Experts warn that the recent glut of reported acts of cannibalism in the United States, Canada, Japan and Sweden is a trend that -- figuratively as well as literally -- can feed on itself.

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Brain-eating cannibalism case raises questions about troubled students

Childs Walker, Tricia Bishop The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 8:04am

BALTIMORE - Janelle Stewart said she was alarmed as she listened to the words about human sacrifice tumbling from the mouth of fellow Morgan State student Alexander Kinyua at a widely attended campus forum about hazing.

But the January outburst wouldn't be the only troubling incident involving Kinyua. He was thrown out of the ROTC program that same month after an incident that involved the destruction of property, and he was known to some on campus for carrying a machete and wearing tribal-inspired facepaint.

Those events earlier this year seem portentous now that Kinyua has been charged in back-to-back incidents of violence. He's accused of assaulting another student May 19 and of murdering 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie six days later. Police say Kinyua chopped Agyei-Kodie to pieces and gorged on the man's heart and brain.

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Online 'cannibal' charged with killing, eating brain of man

Justin Fenton The Baltimore Sun

Last updated Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 8:07am

BALTIMORE - For an image to accompany his "Warrior Syndicate" Internet radio show, alleged cannibal Alexander Kinyua apparently chose a photo of his face covered in green and white war paint.

The show, he said, was for "warriors skilled in combat or warfare . coming together to form a syndicate learning portal for Warrior Clans."

The Web page is part of a disturbing online trove on accounts linked to Kinyua, made all the more chilling by charges from police in Harford County that he admitted this week to killing a 37-year-old man and eating his heart and portions of his brain.

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