Brazil investigating alleged cannibalism case

A 21-year-old man was killed on an Amazonian Indian reservation in northwest Brazil, and police said Tuesday that a witness to the attack claimed the victim was partially eaten by the Indians.

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Suspected Cannibal Refuses to Make Plea

An aspiring writer who left a horror scene of body parts in his apartment was arraigned on Thursday on charges of murder and desecrating a corpse after he allegedly cut up and ate part of his girlfriend's body.

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Cannibalism Suspect Says Death Accident

An aspiring horror novelist told investigators he accidentally killed his girlfriend but denied eating parts of her, authorities said Tuesday, a day after forensic experts said flesh found in a frying pan in the man's apartment was human.

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Mexican Cops Arrest Cannibalism Suspect

An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after police discovered his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the refrigerator and bones in a cereal box, the city prosecutor's spokesman said Thursday, and police suspect he may have been responsible for two other mutilation murders as well.

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French Inmate Suspected of Cannibalism

A French prisoner has confessed to killing his cellmate and then eating part of the man's body, a prosecutor said Friday.

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Did starving Neanderthals eat each other?

Jaw remains of Neanderthal fossils showing hypoplasia lines (arrowed) – evidence of starvation (Image: Antonio Rosas)

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Study: Polar Bears May Turn to Cannibalism

Polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food, a new study by American and Canadian scientists has found.

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Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

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Cruising on the Gordon River in his home state of Tasmania, Jonathan Auf Der Heide was told the story of the cannibal convict Alexander Pearce. The aspiring film director was soon obsessed.

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A cannibalistic killer who murdered three people and ate one of them had behaved "normally" before the attacks, two NHS inquiries revealed today.

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Deliberate cut marks on a 9,000-year-old human bone excavated in a west country cave more than a century ago suggest that prehistoric Devonians may have been cannibals.

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The story of Otty Sanchez taps deep veins, unfolding like a Greek tragedy: A new mother breaks with her lover three weeks after giving birth to their child. Insane with grief, she hears voices telling her to kill her baby -- the fruit of their union.

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The remains of the "first Europeans" discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric humans were cannibals who particularly liked the flesh of children.

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We cannot know when it started, nor who took the gruesome decision, but some time in May 1848, British sailors from HMS Erebus and HMS Terror began butchering and eating their comrades.

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Several Christian sources of the First Crusade report instances of cannibalism. Specifically, starving crusaders were reported to have eaten their fallen Muslim opponants.

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Arrrrh... Yuk !...

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The mysterious disappearance of Neanderthals about 30,000 years ago has baffled scientists for centuries. But now, according to a leading fossil expert, it seems the race may have met a rather grisly end. They were eaten by our ancestors, the modern humans.

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More than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated Malaysian islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said Thursday.

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Recent evidence that Druids possibly committed cannibalism and ritual human sacrifice—perhaps on a massive scale—add weight to ancient Roman accounts of Druidic savagery, archaeologists say.

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A woman from Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk has been arrested for killing a friend and then eating part of the corpse, local investigators said.

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Moscow - A woman from Russia's Siberian region of Irkutsk has been arrested for killing a friend and then eating part of her corpse.

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A Canadian judge ruled Thursday that a man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow Greyhound bus passenger is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.

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"These grotesque acts are appalling... but are suggestive of a mental disorder," the judge said. "He did not appreciate the act he committed was wrong."

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Li pleaded not guilty at the opening of his trial on Tuesday, before details of the brutal slaying were revealed in an agreed statement of facts that was read out in court.

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Police in Brazil's Amazon rain forest are investigating three native Indians suspected of murdering and eating a 21-year-old handicapped man in a rare case of cannibalism, local authorities said Tuesday.

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Two young men — one of them a butcher — have been arrested on suspicion of killing a 16-year-old girl and eating parts of her body, Russian prosecutors said Wednesday.

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Russian police have arrested a florist and a butcher on suspicion of murdering a teenager and then consuming her remains, say prosecutors.

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Two Russian men, one of them a butcher, have been arrested on suspicion of killing, cooking and eating a 16-year-old girl in St Petersburg.

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The state mental hospital in Pueblo , CO has asked a judge to grant more freedom to a woman accused of killing, dismembering and cannibalizing her former boyfriend.

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A four-year-old girl's dismembered body has been found in a fridge in southern China, leading to the arrest of a man who allegedly once said human flesh was "delicious", state media reported.

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"The Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears," according to Kassie Siegel, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Six stories from the Old Testament are acted out in "Terror Texts," a musical at Northwestern College in Orange City.

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