WEBVTT - External Exam - Thanksgiving Special: Cannibalism 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.640 Hey, everyone, It's Thanksgiving week and everyone is talking about 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:09.200 eating turkey, stuffing and cranberry. But today, Oh, Mother Knows Death, 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.320 we will be talking about eating people. On today's external Exam, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:26.079 we will examine cannibalism. Mother Knows Death Presents External Exams 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:37.760 with Nicole and Jimmy. First, let's discuss what is cannibalism. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.840 Cannibalism is when one species of animal eats the same 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.160 species for food. So, for example, if your dog eats 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.440 dog meat for dinner, the same can also be said 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.480 for humans eating other humans. Cannibalism always makes me think 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.760 about the first time I saw an autopsy. I always 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.280 joke that this job doesn't gross me out, and that 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.680 I could eat a hamburger over a dead body. But 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.520 the first time I saw an autopsy, I felt a 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.880 little bit differently. I mean, after all, when you cut 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.039 open a human, it's the same as cutting open an animal. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.679 And when I saw the human ribs I was not 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.200 able to eat Chinese spare ribs for a really long time. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.119 So cannibalism has been documented throughout history and many different 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.080 cultures all over the world. Most of the time cannibalism 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.679 is frowned upon, but in some societies, it's totally normal. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.680 There's a book by the American Museum of Natural History 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:41.120 titled Cannibalism, A Perfectly Natural History, and it discusses how 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.200 during the Chinese Yan Dynasty, royalty and upper class citizens 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:50.560 dined on various different types of prepared humans that were baked, roasted, broiled, 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.680 smoke dried, and sun dried. Children were considered the tastiest, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.279 followed by women and last men. And I would venture 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.880 to say this is because of fact content. This remained 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.360 widespread in China until the late nineteen sixties. These humans 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:08.800 did not eat each other out of necessity. They did 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.160 it because they thought people tasted good. And then there 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.640 is Rick Gibson. Rick Gibson's a Canadian sculptor and a 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.160 performance artist. In nineteen eighty eight, Rick was given preserved 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.000 human tonsils in alcohol by a friend. He was hoping 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.560 to make a pair of ear rings out of these tonsils, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.200 but instead he decided to eat them. On July nineteenth, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.160 nineteen eighty eight, he stood on a corner in London, 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.000 put the tonsils on a cracker with some spread and 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.120 a garnish, and ate them in public. About a year later, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.840 on April fifteenth, nineteen eighty nine, he publicly ate a 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.720 slice of human testicle in London. A few months later, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.720 he tried to do it again in Vancouver, but the 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:55.600 testicle urduv was confiscated by Vancouver police. He later tried 0:02:55.600 --> 0:03:00.400 again and successfully ate another slice of human testicle. I 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.720 really cannot tell you why Rick Gibson ate human meat 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:08.040 other than he was a starving artist get it. In fact, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.519 there are many reasons why a person decides to eat 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:14.600 human flesh. Let's talk about the different types of cannibalism. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.880 Cannibalism can be broken down into three main categories. Cultural. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.000 Throughout history, some cultures would eat the remains of people 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.880 in their tribe as part of the grieving process or 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:34.280 because of cultural superstitions endo cannibalism. The Kawai tribe, the 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.400 Korwai tribe from New Guinea, Indonesia, is thought to be 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.400 one of the last tribes who still practice cannibalism. The 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.440 Kori live deep in the rainforest and many of them 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:48.160 have never seen an outsider. Many members of the tribe 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.920 are completely unaware of our modern world and have no 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.480 knowledge of diseased germs or accidental deaths. Few outsiders have 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.080 been able to observe the Krawai tribe and their cannibal practices. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.160 The Korai believe that mysterious deaths that happen in their 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.800 village are a result of the Quaqua, a witch that 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.560 takes over the form of man. The tribe believes that 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.000 this witch wants to kill people and comes disguise dressed 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.080 as a friend or relative. They think that this witch 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.839 invades their loved ones and then eats their insides while 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.720 they sleep and replaces their insides with fireplaced ash. Should 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.680 they do not know they are being eaten, then the 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.160 witch shoots a magical arrow into the heart and kills them. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.919 When a member of this tribe dies or is about 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.880 to die, it is the duty of the Korai tribe 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.840 to seize and kill the Kaqua witch. Once they kill 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.560 one of their own tribe members who they believe had 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.760 been taken over by the Quaqua, they treat the body 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.599 like they would treat the flesh of a pig. They 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.880 cut off the legs separately and wrap them in banana leaves. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.359 They cut off the head and it is given to 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.680 the person who found the Kaqua. Then they cut off 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.960 the right arm and the right ribs as one piece 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.719 and the left as another. They eat everything except the 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.280 hair nails, and you guessed it, the penis. Children under 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.840 thirteen are not allowed to eat it because they believe 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.440 eating the kequa is dangerous and the evil spirits all 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:19.480 around make children too vulnerable. If you ask the member 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.440 of the Korwai tribe why they eat humans, they would 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.800 argue and tell you that they do not eat humans. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.720 They only eat kekua. Okay, now we're going to talk 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.479 about the Four Tribe. In some cultures, consuming the meat 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.440 of a dead person is done with the intent of 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.000 taking on some of the traits of the dead person. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.680 The Four Tribe, also from New Guinea, would cook and 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.400 eat family members after they died, which was thought to 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.520 invoke the spirit of the dead, and in some sense 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.480 they were doing just that. Women and children were primarily 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.680 consuming the brains of the dead family members. And you 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:58.440 should never eat brains. Why because of prion disease. Prions 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.919 are not the classic organism we think about when we 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.520 think about transmissible diseases like viruses and bacteria. Prions are 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.600 abnormal proteins that can cause transmissible spongeiform and cephalopathy, which 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.400 is similar to mad cow disease, but in people. Prion 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.080 disease has a long incubation period. It can be years 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.760 or decades before a person starts to show symptoms after exposure. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.599 Even though this tribe stopped eating their dead family members 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.039 in the nineteen sixties, tribe members started popping up with 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:33.719 an unusual disease called kuru years later. Kuru is a 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.840 prion disease and was mostly found in women and children 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.400 of the tribe because they were mostly eating the brains 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.680 during the rituals. Now, we're going to move on to 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.600 exo cannibalism. This is the consumption of a person outside 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:50.480 of a community, usually a celebration of victory against a 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:56.920 rival tribe. Necro cannibalism. This type of cannibal eats an 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.200 already dead person to survive. Now we're going to talk 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.960 about one of the most famous cases of this, which 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.000 is Uruguayan Air Force Flight five seventy one. Would you 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.760 eat another person to save your life? In nineteen seventy two, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.440 a college rugby team from Uruguay chartered a Uruguayan Air 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:22.760 Force plane to take the team from Montevido, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.280 The flight initially left Uruguay with forty passengers and five 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.960 crew members. Due to the poor weather conditions in the 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.160 Andes Mountains, the flight had to land and stay overnight 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.800 in Mendozo, Argentina. They were cleared to leave the next afternoon. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.800 The flight departed at two eighteen PM and just after 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.240 three PM air controllers then cleared the plane for descent, 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.480 but shortly after lost communication with the plane. The pilot 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.520 had misjudged the location of the plane, which was still 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.480 in the Andes and crashed around three thirty PM. As 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.440 the plane tumbled down the mountain, it lost both its wings, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.760 the talcone, and part of the fuselage, which is the 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.640 central part of the plane where the passenger and cruise its. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.120 The remainder of the plane eventually slid down into a 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.280 snow bank in a remote valley of Argentina near the 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:18.720 border of Chile. Twelve people died during the initial crash, 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.960 with thirty three left to survive the harsh conditions of 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.960 the mountains. Shortly after the crash, a search rescue was 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.280 underway with no luck, as clearly the pilot misjudged their 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.920 initial location. Rescue teams quickly looked to the Andes However, 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.920 the snow covered mountains made it incredibly difficult to spot 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.960 the remains of a white aircraft. After eight days, the 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.240 search was called off with the assumption that there were 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.080 no survivors. Over two months after Flight five seventy one crashed, 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:52.040 the remaining survivors were finally rescued on December twenty second, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.839 nineteen seventy two. Out of the thirty three people who 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:00.800 survived the initial crash, only sixteen survived. So how did 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:05.040 they survive? Survivors of the initial crash got to thinking 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:09.080 quickly and used parts from the plane such as seat luggage, DeBras, etc. 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.320 To create sufficient shelter. They relied on additional clothing found 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.080 in luggage to keep as warm as possible. While most 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.199 of the plane's fuselage was intact, it did not provide 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.920 much relief from the harsh weather conditions and eventually killed 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.679 an additional eight passengers sleeping inside when an avalanche hit. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.560 For about a week, the remaining survivors were able to 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.439 eat any leftover food on the aircraft. This mostly involved 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.000 candy and wine, but quickly they ran out from here. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.760 They were desperate and resorted to eating cotton and leather 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.080 from the plane seats. It was clear after a week 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.359 that rescue efforts were not sufficient, and the remaining survivors 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.680 were willing to do anything to live. Robert Cassenna, a 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.320 survivor who was nineteen at the time of the crash, 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.320 stated in his memoir, we knew the answer, but it 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.079 was too terrible to contemplate. The bodies of our friends 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.800 and teammates, preserved outside in the snow and ice contained vital, 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.560 life giving protein that could help us survive, but could 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:17.120 we do it. Initially, the survivors had deep moral concerns 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.640 about eating the deceased, as they were all devoted Catholics. Later, 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.680 in the media, one survivor claimed that they were influenced 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.920 by the Last Supper, in which Jesus gave his disciples 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.800 bread and wine that he stated were his body and 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:35.600 his blood. This perspective helped with the media backlash after 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:40.920 survivors revealed that they resorted to cannibalism on day nine. 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.960 The difficult decision was made and a pact was formed 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.320 that if any of them died, they could eat the 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.760 deceased for sustenance. Robert used broken glass from a window 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.800 to cut off frozen flesh from the deceased. They decided 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.000 to consume the pilot and co pilot first, as they 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.600 were strangers. Two months after the crash, Robert and another 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.840 survivor decided to take their own journey in search of health. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.120 After days of hiking with no map or supplies, they 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.640 got the attention of some men across a river. The 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:18.920 men alerted authorities and the remaining survivors were rescued. Now 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.520 we're going to get into this historical case of cannibalism, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:28.040 the Donner Party. In another case of survival cannibalism, a 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.680 group of American pioneers headed west on the Oregon Trail 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.160 in hopes of a better life, but unfortunately were left 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.840 trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Journeys on the Oregon 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.760 Trail typically lasted four to six months and came with 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.640 great risk. About ten percent of voyagers did not make 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:53.600 the journey west. The Donner Party, originating in Illinois, departed 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.480 Missouri on the Oregon Trail in the spring of eighteen 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.920 forty six. The group of eighty seven decided to go 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:04.520 on a relatively new path, Hastings cut Off, which was 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:09.040 an alternative route for those seeking settlement in California. Many 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.120 peers advised the group against taking the alternative route, stating 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:17.400 that the terrain was not suitable for wagon travel. This 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.240 new route extended the time of the journey and created 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.920 many issues down the line. The rugged terrain along this 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.480 trail caused the loss of wagons and horses, further slowing 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:31.280 down the journey. By November, the group reached the Sierra 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:35.200 Nevada Mountains. As a result of poor planning, they became 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.400 trapped by heavy snowfall with little supplies. About a month 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.960 after becoming trapped, fifteen of the settlers ventured out in 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.520 search of help. Several days of wandering the snowy terrain 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:51.080 left them weak and starving. They even contemplated human sacrifice 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.920 or a duel between the two men. Fortunately for them, 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.800 some of the group members died from natural causes and 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.280 left them with enough food to regain strength. Seven of 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.400 the fifteen members who ventured from the remaining stranding group 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.960 made it to California and formed a rescue plan for 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.880 the others. Of the eighty seven original group members that 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.960 left in the spring of eighteen forty three, forty eight survived. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.480 Today's episode is brought to you by Arteri Inc. Arteri 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.760 Inc's my favorite company that sells apparel for medical professionals, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.360 and the reason that it's my favorite is because they 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:41.520 represent more obscure professions in the field of medicine. For example, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.920 when I was in PA school, I had a terrible 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.120 time finding a shirt that said that I was a 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.320 pathologists assistant and I was so proud of going to 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.800 school for that. My classmates and I we always wanted 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.319 shirts that said it, but when we went to the bookstore, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:01.880 they just had shirts that said nurses or and sorry 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.160 nurses and doctors, But there are way more people working 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.560 in the hospital that are doing things to help save 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.520 people's lives as well, and we want to be represented too, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.000 So that's why I love Artery Inc. They also are 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.599 a woman owned business and so are we, so we 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.640 love to support that and they give back to the 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.360 community and last year they donated over thirty six thousand dollars. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.640 So check out their website arteryinc dot com where you 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.200 could pre order your Pathologists Assistant or PA share along 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.280 with other shirts, and they also have other shirts that 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:38.360 are available for immediate shipping and their discount code for 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.520 fifteen percent off of the order is Love Your Insides 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.240 twenty three. And another great thing about this company is 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.640 that they draw all their own designs, so there's just 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.400 so many reasons why you want to support them again. Arteryinc. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.720 Dot Com fifteen percent off of your order Love Your 0:14:54.800 --> 0:15:03.160 Insides twenty three. Okay, let's get into homicidal cannibalism. This 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.000 type of cannibal kills a person and then eats their 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.200 dead body. This brings us to the whole point of 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.160 this post. Most people eat turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:18.240 but this woman ate her husband for Thanksgiving. It was 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.720 a whirlwind romance between Omema, a twenty three year old 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.400 Egyptian model, and her husband, fifty six year old Bill Nelson. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.160 In late nineteen ninety one, Omema met Bill, who was 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.760 a pilot after living in America for about five years. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.160 A few days after meeting, the two married, and things 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.800 would turn deadly in only a month. In their brief relationship, 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.600 Omema claimed that Bill had sexually assaulted her, and after 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.000 an attack on November twenty eighth, nineteen ninety one, which 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.720 was Thanksgiving Day, she had enough. She stabbed Bill in 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.480 his chest and stomach with a pair of scissors and 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.040 finished him off with a clothing iron. In a moment 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.720 of blind rage, Omama began to cut up Bill's body. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.480 She even castrated him, which is removing his testicles as 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.280 of revenge for the times he abused her. Omeima spent 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.800 hours attempting to get rid of Bill's remains. She mixed 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.800 some of his body parts with turkey leftovers to disguise 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.600 them in a trash bag, shoved other bits down the 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.200 garbage disposal, which neighbors told investigators they heard running for hours, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.560 and eventually boiled his hands in an attempt to remove fingerprints. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.520 She then stuck his head in the freezer to deal 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.640 with him later. Now this is where the crime really 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:40.320 takes a turn. Court documents detailed a conversation between Omeima 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.280 and her psychiatrist. In the session, she admits that she 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.400 quote did his ribs just like in a restaurant. It 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.640 is so sweet, it's so delicious, I like mine tender. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.720 She actually took Bill's ribs, which she dismembered after the murder, 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.000 and cooked them in barbecue sauce and ate them for dinner. 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.920 She was sentenced to twenty seven years to life in prison, 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.960 and she will be eligible for parole. In twenty twenty six, 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.720 So you know, she'll probably get released and get some 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.119 kind of a cookbook deal or something. Okay. On to 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:18.760 Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer has been more in the limelight 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.840 as of late, and is arguably the most famous cannibal. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.119 Jeffrey killed his first victim at the young age of 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:28.560 eighteen in nineteen seventy eight. This crime took place in 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.919 his childhood home, and he hid the remains in the 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.280 crawl space underneath of his house. It would be almost 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.919 a decade before his next murder, while living in his 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.439 grandmother's house. All in all, Dahmer was thought to have 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:44.439 killed seventeen men, but was only convicted for fifteen. He 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.199 was eventually caught in nineteen ninety one after one of 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.359 his victims escaped and drew attention to the haunting scene 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.360 in his Milwaukee apartment. Dahmer's apartment had been recounted as 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.280 one of the most horrific scenes in true crime history. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.119 When police searched the apartment, they found the remains of 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:06.760 eleven men. Dahmer had a fifty seven gallon barrel in 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.119 his bedroom filled with hydrochloric acid to dissolve the skin 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.200 off of his victim's skeletons. At the time of his arrest, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:18.840 police found three torsos dissolving in the acid. Also in 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.080 his bedroom was a drawer full of polaroids showing the 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.679 deceased victims and acts of necrophilia, which is sex with 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.360 a dead person. He once stated he took the photos 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:33.680 to remember the beauty each victim once had. Dahmer kept 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.560 a reserve of some body parts in his freezer to cook. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.280 There were also three decapitated heads and a human heart 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.360 in his refrigerator at the time of discovery. While Dahmer 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.720 never denied his killings, he could never fully explain what 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:52.040 drove him to start eating the body parts. He stated, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.840 at first it was just curiosity, then it became compulsive. 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.600 He also noted to investigators that biceps tasted like beef. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:07.320 Doctor Eric Hickey, a professor of forensic psychology, explains cannibalism 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.000 as the ultimate form of control over a victim, commenting 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.119 that quote eating their victims gives them a sense of 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.560 power because their victims can never leave. Doctor Hickey goes 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.560 on to explain that cannibalism is often the result of 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:27.480 obsessive sexual desire and experimentation. He says, quote, you don't 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.240 usually see people jump from killing to eating. It starts 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.000 with watching people sleep, then drugging victims, then you want 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.840 to be with someone who's buried or unconscious, and then 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.080 it progresses from there. Jeffrey Dahmer was known for drugging 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.960 his victims, and he was even banned from certain clubs 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.879 and bathhouses for doing it. Based on doctor Hickey's explanation 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.240 and Dahmer's admitted compulsiveness, it definitely makes sense that Dahmer 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.920 would progress to this horrific behavior. Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.560 to fifteen concer executive life sentences in nineteen ninety two, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.480 but he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:12.119 in nineteen ninety four. Ed Gain Going back a few decades, 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:15.040 the search for a local missing woman would lead police 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:20.000 to a truly horrific crime scene. In November nineteen fifty seven, 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:24.320 a local hardware store owner, Bernice Warden, went missing. This 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.399 was an incredibly rare instance for the time, especially in 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.200 such a small town. The only clue left behind was bloodstains. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.320 Police looked through her records from the store and the 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.600 last receipt that she wrote out for the day was 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.320 a man named Ed gain who went into the store 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.640 to purchase antifreeze. Police went to Gaines's house, who lived 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.040 in an isolated farm right outside of town, and immediately 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.600 found Bernice. She was decapitated and hanging by her ankles. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.280 The farmhouse was filled with bones, human organs, and even 0:20:56.600 --> 0:21:01.000 crafts and furniture made from human remains. Some of the 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.800 items they discovered included mass made from faces, a belt 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.360 made of nipples, a lamp shade made from a face, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.600 a pair of lips acting as a window shade, drawstring 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.760 and chairs, and a pair of leggings made from human skin. 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:22.960 Gain immediately admitted that he had kidnapped his victims in 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.960 addition to robbing graves for female remains. He then told 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.200 police he was trying to create a quote woman's suit 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:34.280 that he could wear to become his mother. She had 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.120 died a decade prior, and he was obsessed with her, 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.600 even leaving her favorite rooms of the house boarded up 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:43.960 to preserve their pristine condition, while the rest of the 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.280 house was a scene out of true crime hoarders. Does 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.600 this idea of a woman suit sound familiar? Ed Gain 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.159 is said to be the inspiration for Buffalo Bill in 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.280 the Silence of the Lamb's movie and Norman Bates in 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:02.800 the Psycho movie. Even though those movies are fictional, it's 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.680 extra scary to know it is sourced from a true story. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.400 While he never admitted it, many believed that ed Gain 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.600 participated in cannibalism. He was said to be obsessed with 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.040 reading about the topic, and human remains were discovered throughout 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:21.280 his kitchen. If we approach his crimes from a psychological 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:24.480 point of view, he had an obsessive build up, just 0:22:24.560 --> 0:22:28.080 like Jeffrey Dahmer. His mother had died in nineteen forty five, 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.000 leaving him alone in their family farmhouse. He was obsessed 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.960 with her, and he slowly began to take extreme measures 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.920 to resurrect her. Although police found remains from as many 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.399 as forty bodies in his home, ed only admitted to 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.560 killing two of them. He maintained that the rest of 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:49.280 the women were from graves that he had robbed over time. 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:54.720 These gruesome acts granted him the nickname the Butcher of Plainfield. 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.720 Now let's talk about Albert Fish. Lastly, in the true 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.720 crime Time Spectrum comes the serial killer Albert Fish. While 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:06.679 many are not as familiar with Albert Fish as Dahmer 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:09.560 and Gain, he is thought to have influenced the character 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:13.199 of Hannibal Lecter. At twenty years old, Fish moved to 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:15.880 New York City, where he began his life as a criminal, 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:21.320 participating in male prostitution and raping young boys. Albert later 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.639 recounted the beginning stages of his interest in sexual mutilation 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:28.280 when a lover took him to a wax museum. At 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.760 forty years old, in nineteen ten, Albert became involved with 0:23:31.800 --> 0:23:36.720 a mentally disabled young adult. Shortly into their relationship, Albert 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:39.680 took the man to an old farmhouse, where he tortured 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:44.000 him for two weeks. While Albert intended to kill his lover, 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.320 he ended up just mutilating him by cutting off half 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.320 his penis, as he feared the heat would draw attention 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:54.160 to a dead body. A few years after this incident, 0:23:54.480 --> 0:23:58.920 Albert began having hallucinations and harming himself by inserting needles 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.800 into his groin. An X ray later revealed that he 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:07.320 had twenty nine needles lodged in his pelvic region from 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:11.800 nineteen nineteen to nineteen thirty. Albert's violent fantasies fully came 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.719 to late. He began harming and murdering young children, stating 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.120 that he felt God was commanding him to do so. 0:24:19.400 --> 0:24:22.520 Albert's reign of terror would eventually end with the murder 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:26.560 of Grace Budd in nineteen twenty eight. Albert met Grace 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.160 after her brother put an ad in the New York 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:33.080 World seeking a job. Albert posed as a farmer looking 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:37.359 to hire Edward, although his true intentions were to mutilate him. 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:41.080 He convinced Grace's parents to have her accompanying him to 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:44.760 a made up party for his niece, but instead took 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.280 her to an abandoned house, where he killed her and 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:52.080 then ate her. Several years later, an anonymous letter was 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.119 sent to Grace's parents, and it is too disturbing to 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:59.640 read here. Police investigated this letter, and while the beginning 0:24:59.680 --> 0:25:03.360 parts could not be verified, the events surrounding Grace's disappearance 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:07.359 were accurate. What ultimately led police to Albert was a 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:11.160 small detail on the envelope. There was a small emblem 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:19.320 with the letters NYPCBA representing New York Private Chauffeur's Manipulate Association. 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.640 A janitor for this company told investigators he had some 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:26.719 of the stationery at his rooming house, and he had 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:29.800 left it there when he moved out. Turns out that 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:33.960 Albert had been staying in the rooming house. Police arrested 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:36.840 Albert at the rooming house in nineteen thirty four and 0:25:36.960 --> 0:25:41.400