Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, It's Thanksgiving week and everyone is talking about
Speaker 1: eating turkey, stuffing and cranberry. But today, Oh, Mother Knows Death,
Speaker 1: we will be talking about eating people. On today's external Exam,
Speaker 1: we will examine cannibalism. Mother Knows Death Presents External Exams
Speaker 1: with Nicole and Jimmy. First, let's discuss what is cannibalism.
Speaker 1: Cannibalism is when one species of animal eats the same
Speaker 1: species for food. So, for example, if your dog eats
Speaker 1: dog meat for dinner, the same can also be said
Speaker 1: for humans eating other humans. Cannibalism always makes me think
Speaker 1: about the first time I saw an autopsy. I always
Speaker 1: joke that this job doesn't gross me out, and that
Speaker 1: I could eat a hamburger over a dead body. But
Speaker 1: the first time I saw an autopsy, I felt a
Speaker 1: little bit differently. I mean, after all, when you cut
Speaker 1: open a human, it's the same as cutting open an animal.
Speaker 1: And when I saw the human ribs I was not
Speaker 1: able to eat Chinese spare ribs for a really long time.
Speaker 1: So cannibalism has been documented throughout history and many different
Speaker 1: cultures all over the world. Most of the time cannibalism
Speaker 1: is frowned upon, but in some societies, it's totally normal.
Speaker 1: There's a book by the American Museum of Natural History
Speaker 1: titled Cannibalism, A Perfectly Natural History, and it discusses how
Speaker 1: during the Chinese Yan Dynasty, royalty and upper class citizens
Speaker 1: dined on various different types of prepared humans that were baked, roasted, broiled,
Speaker 1: smoke dried, and sun dried. Children were considered the tastiest,
Speaker 1: followed by women and last men. And I would venture
Speaker 1: to say this is because of fact content. This remained
Speaker 1: widespread in China until the late nineteen sixties. These humans
Speaker 1: did not eat each other out of necessity. They did
Speaker 1: it because they thought people tasted good. And then there
Speaker 1: is Rick Gibson. Rick Gibson's a Canadian sculptor and a
Speaker 1: performance artist. In nineteen eighty eight, Rick was given preserved
Speaker 1: human tonsils in alcohol by a friend. He was hoping
Speaker 1: to make a pair of ear rings out of these tonsils,
Speaker 1: but instead he decided to eat them. On July nineteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, he stood on a corner in London,
Speaker 1: put the tonsils on a cracker with some spread and
Speaker 1: a garnish, and ate them in public. About a year later,
Speaker 1: on April fifteenth, nineteen eighty nine, he publicly ate a
Speaker 1: slice of human testicle in London. A few months later,
Speaker 1: he tried to do it again in Vancouver, but the
Speaker 1: testicle urduv was confiscated by Vancouver police. He later tried
Speaker 1: again and successfully ate another slice of human testicle. I
Speaker 1: really cannot tell you why Rick Gibson ate human meat
Speaker 1: other than he was a starving artist get it. In fact,
Speaker 1: there are many reasons why a person decides to eat
Speaker 1: human flesh. Let's talk about the different types of cannibalism.
Speaker 1: Cannibalism can be broken down into three main categories. Cultural.
Speaker 1: Throughout history, some cultures would eat the remains of people
Speaker 1: in their tribe as part of the grieving process or
Speaker 1: because of cultural superstitions endo cannibalism. The Kawai tribe, the
Speaker 1: Korwai tribe from New Guinea, Indonesia, is thought to be
Speaker 1: one of the last tribes who still practice cannibalism. The
Speaker 1: Kori live deep in the rainforest and many of them
Speaker 1: have never seen an outsider. Many members of the tribe
Speaker 1: are completely unaware of our modern world and have no
Speaker 1: knowledge of diseased germs or accidental deaths. Few outsiders have
Speaker 1: been able to observe the Krawai tribe and their cannibal practices.
Speaker 1: The Korai believe that mysterious deaths that happen in their
Speaker 1: village are a result of the Quaqua, a witch that
Speaker 1: takes over the form of man. The tribe believes that
Speaker 1: this witch wants to kill people and comes disguise dressed
Speaker 1: as a friend or relative. They think that this witch
Speaker 1: invades their loved ones and then eats their insides while
Speaker 1: they sleep and replaces their insides with fireplaced ash. Should
Speaker 1: they do not know they are being eaten, then the
Speaker 1: witch shoots a magical arrow into the heart and kills them.
Speaker 1: When a member of this tribe dies or is about
Speaker 1: to die, it is the duty of the Korai tribe
Speaker 1: to seize and kill the Kaqua witch. Once they kill
Speaker 1: one of their own tribe members who they believe had
Speaker 1: been taken over by the Quaqua, they treat the body
Speaker 1: like they would treat the flesh of a pig. They
Speaker 1: cut off the legs separately and wrap them in banana leaves.
Speaker 1: They cut off the head and it is given to
Speaker 1: the person who found the Kaqua. Then they cut off
Speaker 1: the right arm and the right ribs as one piece
Speaker 1: and the left as another. They eat everything except the
Speaker 1: hair nails, and you guessed it, the penis. Children under
Speaker 1: thirteen are not allowed to eat it because they believe
Speaker 1: eating the kequa is dangerous and the evil spirits all
Speaker 1: around make children too vulnerable. If you ask the member
Speaker 1: of the Korwai tribe why they eat humans, they would
Speaker 1: argue and tell you that they do not eat humans.
Speaker 1: They only eat kekua. Okay, now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the Four Tribe. In some cultures, consuming the meat
Speaker 1: of a dead person is done with the intent of
Speaker 1: taking on some of the traits of the dead person.
Speaker 1: The Four Tribe, also from New Guinea, would cook and
Speaker 1: eat family members after they died, which was thought to
Speaker 1: invoke the spirit of the dead, and in some sense
Speaker 1: they were doing just that. Women and children were primarily
Speaker 1: consuming the brains of the dead family members. And you
Speaker 1: should never eat brains. Why because of prion disease. Prions
Speaker 1: are not the classic organism we think about when we
Speaker 1: think about transmissible diseases like viruses and bacteria. Prions are
Speaker 1: abnormal proteins that can cause transmissible spongeiform and cephalopathy, which
Speaker 1: is similar to mad cow disease, but in people. Prion
Speaker 1: disease has a long incubation period. It can be years
Speaker 1: or decades before a person starts to show symptoms after exposure.
Speaker 1: Even though this tribe stopped eating their dead family members
Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties, tribe members started popping up with
Speaker 1: an unusual disease called kuru years later. Kuru is a
Speaker 1: prion disease and was mostly found in women and children
Speaker 1: of the tribe because they were mostly eating the brains
Speaker 1: during the rituals. Now, we're going to move on to
Speaker 1: exo cannibalism. This is the consumption of a person outside
Speaker 1: of a community, usually a celebration of victory against a
Speaker 1: rival tribe. Necro cannibalism. This type of cannibal eats an
Speaker 1: already dead person to survive. Now we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about one of the most famous cases of this, which
Speaker 1: is Uruguayan Air Force Flight five seventy one. Would you
Speaker 1: eat another person to save your life? In nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: a college rugby team from Uruguay chartered a Uruguayan Air
Speaker 1: Force plane to take the team from Montevido, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile.
Speaker 1: The flight initially left Uruguay with forty passengers and five
Speaker 1: crew members. Due to the poor weather conditions in the
Speaker 1: Andes Mountains, the flight had to land and stay overnight
Speaker 1: in Mendozo, Argentina. They were cleared to leave the next afternoon.
Speaker 1: The flight departed at two eighteen PM and just after
Speaker 1: three PM air controllers then cleared the plane for descent,
Speaker 1: but shortly after lost communication with the plane. The pilot
Speaker 1: had misjudged the location of the plane, which was still
Speaker 1: in the Andes and crashed around three thirty PM. As
Speaker 1: the plane tumbled down the mountain, it lost both its wings,
Speaker 1: the talcone, and part of the fuselage, which is the
Speaker 1: central part of the plane where the passenger and cruise its.
Speaker 1: The remainder of the plane eventually slid down into a
Speaker 1: snow bank in a remote valley of Argentina near the
Speaker 1: border of Chile. Twelve people died during the initial crash,
Speaker 1: with thirty three left to survive the harsh conditions of
Speaker 1: the mountains. Shortly after the crash, a search rescue was
Speaker 1: underway with no luck, as clearly the pilot misjudged their
Speaker 1: initial location. Rescue teams quickly looked to the Andes However,
Speaker 1: the snow covered mountains made it incredibly difficult to spot
Speaker 1: the remains of a white aircraft. After eight days, the
Speaker 1: search was called off with the assumption that there were
Speaker 1: no survivors. Over two months after Flight five seventy one crashed,
Speaker 1: the remaining survivors were finally rescued on December twenty second,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. Out of the thirty three people who
Speaker 1: survived the initial crash, only sixteen survived. So how did
Speaker 1: they survive? Survivors of the initial crash got to thinking
Speaker 1: quickly and used parts from the plane such as seat luggage, DeBras, etc.
Speaker 1: To create sufficient shelter. They relied on additional clothing found
Speaker 1: in luggage to keep as warm as possible. While most
Speaker 1: of the plane's fuselage was intact, it did not provide
Speaker 1: much relief from the harsh weather conditions and eventually killed
Speaker 1: an additional eight passengers sleeping inside when an avalanche hit.
Speaker 1: For about a week, the remaining survivors were able to
Speaker 1: eat any leftover food on the aircraft. This mostly involved
Speaker 1: candy and wine, but quickly they ran out from here.
Speaker 1: They were desperate and resorted to eating cotton and leather
Speaker 1: from the plane seats. It was clear after a week
Speaker 1: that rescue efforts were not sufficient, and the remaining survivors
Speaker 1: were willing to do anything to live. Robert Cassenna, a
Speaker 1: survivor who was nineteen at the time of the crash,
Speaker 1: stated in his memoir, we knew the answer, but it
Speaker 1: was too terrible to contemplate. The bodies of our friends
Speaker 1: and teammates, preserved outside in the snow and ice contained vital,
Speaker 1: life giving protein that could help us survive, but could
Speaker 1: we do it. Initially, the survivors had deep moral concerns
Speaker 1: about eating the deceased, as they were all devoted Catholics. Later,
Speaker 1: in the media, one survivor claimed that they were influenced
Speaker 1: by the Last Supper, in which Jesus gave his disciples
Speaker 1: bread and wine that he stated were his body and
Speaker 1: his blood. This perspective helped with the media backlash after
Speaker 1: survivors revealed that they resorted to cannibalism on day nine.
Speaker 1: The difficult decision was made and a pact was formed
Speaker 1: that if any of them died, they could eat the
Speaker 1: deceased for sustenance. Robert used broken glass from a window
Speaker 1: to cut off frozen flesh from the deceased. They decided
Speaker 1: to consume the pilot and co pilot first, as they
Speaker 1: were strangers. Two months after the crash, Robert and another
Speaker 1: survivor decided to take their own journey in search of health.
Speaker 1: After days of hiking with no map or supplies, they
Speaker 1: got the attention of some men across a river. The
Speaker 1: men alerted authorities and the remaining survivors were rescued. Now
Speaker 1: we're going to get into this historical case of cannibalism,
Speaker 1: the Donner Party. In another case of survival cannibalism, a
Speaker 1: group of American pioneers headed west on the Oregon Trail
Speaker 1: in hopes of a better life, but unfortunately were left
Speaker 1: trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Journeys on the Oregon
Speaker 1: Trail typically lasted four to six months and came with
Speaker 1: great risk. About ten percent of voyagers did not make
Speaker 1: the journey west. The Donner Party, originating in Illinois, departed
Speaker 1: Missouri on the Oregon Trail in the spring of eighteen
Speaker 1: forty six. The group of eighty seven decided to go
Speaker 1: on a relatively new path, Hastings cut Off, which was
Speaker 1: an alternative route for those seeking settlement in California. Many
Speaker 1: peers advised the group against taking the alternative route, stating
Speaker 1: that the terrain was not suitable for wagon travel. This
Speaker 1: new route extended the time of the journey and created
Speaker 1: many issues down the line. The rugged terrain along this
Speaker 1: trail caused the loss of wagons and horses, further slowing
Speaker 1: down the journey. By November, the group reached the Sierra
Speaker 1: Nevada Mountains. As a result of poor planning, they became
Speaker 1: trapped by heavy snowfall with little supplies. About a month
Speaker 1: after becoming trapped, fifteen of the settlers ventured out in
Speaker 1: search of help. Several days of wandering the snowy terrain
Speaker 1: left them weak and starving. They even contemplated human sacrifice
Speaker 1: or a duel between the two men. Fortunately for them,
Speaker 1: some of the group members died from natural causes and
Speaker 1: left them with enough food to regain strength. Seven of
Speaker 1: the fifteen members who ventured from the remaining stranding group
Speaker 1: made it to California and formed a rescue plan for
Speaker 1: the others. Of the eighty seven original group members that
Speaker 1: left in the spring of eighteen forty three, forty eight survived.
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Speaker 1: type of cannibal kills a person and then eats their
Speaker 1: dead body. This brings us to the whole point of
Speaker 1: this post. Most people eat turkey and stuffing on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: but this woman ate her husband for Thanksgiving. It was
Speaker 1: a whirlwind romance between Omema, a twenty three year old
Speaker 1: Egyptian model, and her husband, fifty six year old Bill Nelson.
Speaker 1: In late nineteen ninety one, Omema met Bill, who was
Speaker 1: a pilot after living in America for about five years.
Speaker 1: A few days after meeting, the two married, and things
Speaker 1: would turn deadly in only a month. In their brief relationship,
Speaker 1: Omema claimed that Bill had sexually assaulted her, and after
Speaker 1: an attack on November twenty eighth, nineteen ninety one, which
Speaker 1: was Thanksgiving Day, she had enough. She stabbed Bill in
Speaker 1: his chest and stomach with a pair of scissors and
Speaker 1: finished him off with a clothing iron. In a moment
Speaker 1: of blind rage, Omama began to cut up Bill's body.
Speaker 1: She even castrated him, which is removing his testicles as
Speaker 1: of revenge for the times he abused her. Omeima spent
Speaker 1: hours attempting to get rid of Bill's remains. She mixed
Speaker 1: some of his body parts with turkey leftovers to disguise
Speaker 1: them in a trash bag, shoved other bits down the
Speaker 1: garbage disposal, which neighbors told investigators they heard running for hours,
Speaker 1: and eventually boiled his hands in an attempt to remove fingerprints.
Speaker 1: She then stuck his head in the freezer to deal
Speaker 1: with him later. Now this is where the crime really
Speaker 1: takes a turn. Court documents detailed a conversation between Omeima
Speaker 1: and her psychiatrist. In the session, she admits that she
Speaker 1: quote did his ribs just like in a restaurant. It
Speaker 1: is so sweet, it's so delicious, I like mine tender.
Speaker 1: She actually took Bill's ribs, which she dismembered after the murder,
Speaker 1: and cooked them in barbecue sauce and ate them for dinner.
Speaker 1: She was sentenced to twenty seven years to life in prison,
Speaker 1: and she will be eligible for parole. In twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: So you know, she'll probably get released and get some
Speaker 1: kind of a cookbook deal or something. Okay. On to
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Dahmer. Jeffrey Dahmer has been more in the limelight
Speaker 1: as of late, and is arguably the most famous cannibal.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey killed his first victim at the young age of
Speaker 1: eighteen in nineteen seventy eight. This crime took place in
Speaker 1: his childhood home, and he hid the remains in the
Speaker 1: crawl space underneath of his house. It would be almost
Speaker 1: a decade before his next murder, while living in his
Speaker 1: grandmother's house. All in all, Dahmer was thought to have
Speaker 1: killed seventeen men, but was only convicted for fifteen. He
Speaker 1: was eventually caught in nineteen ninety one after one of
Speaker 1: his victims escaped and drew attention to the haunting scene
Speaker 1: in his Milwaukee apartment. Dahmer's apartment had been recounted as
Speaker 1: one of the most horrific scenes in true crime history.
Speaker 1: When police searched the apartment, they found the remains of
Speaker 1: eleven men. Dahmer had a fifty seven gallon barrel in
Speaker 1: his bedroom filled with hydrochloric acid to dissolve the skin
Speaker 1: off of his victim's skeletons. At the time of his arrest,
Speaker 1: police found three torsos dissolving in the acid. Also in
Speaker 1: his bedroom was a drawer full of polaroids showing the
Speaker 1: deceased victims and acts of necrophilia, which is sex with
Speaker 1: a dead person. He once stated he took the photos
Speaker 1: to remember the beauty each victim once had. Dahmer kept
Speaker 1: a reserve of some body parts in his freezer to cook.
Speaker 1: There were also three decapitated heads and a human heart
Speaker 1: in his refrigerator at the time of discovery. While Dahmer
Speaker 1: never denied his killings, he could never fully explain what
Speaker 1: drove him to start eating the body parts. He stated,
Speaker 1: at first it was just curiosity, then it became compulsive.
Speaker 1: He also noted to investigators that biceps tasted like beef.
Speaker 1: Doctor Eric Hickey, a professor of forensic psychology, explains cannibalism
Speaker 1: as the ultimate form of control over a victim, commenting
Speaker 1: that quote eating their victims gives them a sense of
Speaker 1: power because their victims can never leave. Doctor Hickey goes
Speaker 1: on to explain that cannibalism is often the result of
Speaker 1: obsessive sexual desire and experimentation. He says, quote, you don't
Speaker 1: usually see people jump from killing to eating. It starts
Speaker 1: with watching people sleep, then drugging victims, then you want
Speaker 1: to be with someone who's buried or unconscious, and then
Speaker 1: it progresses from there. Jeffrey Dahmer was known for drugging
Speaker 1: his victims, and he was even banned from certain clubs
Speaker 1: and bathhouses for doing it. Based on doctor Hickey's explanation
Speaker 1: and Dahmer's admitted compulsiveness, it definitely makes sense that Dahmer
Speaker 1: would progress to this horrific behavior. Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced
Speaker 1: to fifteen concer executive life sentences in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: but he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four. Ed Gain Going back a few decades,
Speaker 1: the search for a local missing woman would lead police
Speaker 1: to a truly horrific crime scene. In November nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 1: a local hardware store owner, Bernice Warden, went missing. This
Speaker 1: was an incredibly rare instance for the time, especially in
Speaker 1: such a small town. The only clue left behind was bloodstains.
Speaker 1: Police looked through her records from the store and the
Speaker 1: last receipt that she wrote out for the day was
Speaker 1: a man named Ed gain who went into the store
Speaker 1: to purchase antifreeze. Police went to Gaines's house, who lived
Speaker 1: in an isolated farm right outside of town, and immediately
Speaker 1: found Bernice. She was decapitated and hanging by her ankles.
Speaker 1: The farmhouse was filled with bones, human organs, and even
Speaker 1: crafts and furniture made from human remains. Some of the
Speaker 1: items they discovered included mass made from faces, a belt
Speaker 1: made of nipples, a lamp shade made from a face,
Speaker 1: a pair of lips acting as a window shade, drawstring
Speaker 1: and chairs, and a pair of leggings made from human skin.
Speaker 1: Gain immediately admitted that he had kidnapped his victims in
Speaker 1: addition to robbing graves for female remains. He then told
Speaker 1: police he was trying to create a quote woman's suit
Speaker 1: that he could wear to become his mother. She had
Speaker 1: died a decade prior, and he was obsessed with her,
Speaker 1: even leaving her favorite rooms of the house boarded up
Speaker 1: to preserve their pristine condition, while the rest of the
Speaker 1: house was a scene out of true crime hoarders. Does
Speaker 1: this idea of a woman suit sound familiar? Ed Gain
Speaker 1: is said to be the inspiration for Buffalo Bill in
Speaker 1: the Silence of the Lamb's movie and Norman Bates in
Speaker 1: the Psycho movie. Even though those movies are fictional, it's
Speaker 1: extra scary to know it is sourced from a true story.
Speaker 1: While he never admitted it, many believed that ed Gain
Speaker 1: participated in cannibalism. He was said to be obsessed with
Speaker 1: reading about the topic, and human remains were discovered throughout
Speaker 1: his kitchen. If we approach his crimes from a psychological
Speaker 1: point of view, he had an obsessive build up, just
Speaker 1: like Jeffrey Dahmer. His mother had died in nineteen forty five,
Speaker 1: leaving him alone in their family farmhouse. He was obsessed
Speaker 1: with her, and he slowly began to take extreme measures
Speaker 1: to resurrect her. Although police found remains from as many
Speaker 1: as forty bodies in his home, ed only admitted to
Speaker 1: killing two of them. He maintained that the rest of
Speaker 1: the women were from graves that he had robbed over time.
Speaker 1: These gruesome acts granted him the nickname the Butcher of Plainfield.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about Albert Fish. Lastly, in the true
Speaker 1: crime Time Spectrum comes the serial killer Albert Fish. While
Speaker 1: many are not as familiar with Albert Fish as Dahmer
Speaker 1: and Gain, he is thought to have influenced the character
Speaker 1: of Hannibal Lecter. At twenty years old, Fish moved to
Speaker 1: New York City, where he began his life as a criminal,
Speaker 1: participating in male prostitution and raping young boys. Albert later
Speaker 1: recounted the beginning stages of his interest in sexual mutilation
Speaker 1: when a lover took him to a wax museum. At
Speaker 1: forty years old, in nineteen ten, Albert became involved with
Speaker 1: a mentally disabled young adult. Shortly into their relationship, Albert
Speaker 1: took the man to an old farmhouse, where he tortured
Speaker 1: him for two weeks. While Albert intended to kill his lover,
Speaker 1: he ended up just mutilating him by cutting off half
Speaker 1: his penis, as he feared the heat would draw attention
Speaker 1: to a dead body. A few years after this incident,
Speaker 1: Albert began having hallucinations and harming himself by inserting needles
Speaker 1: into his groin. An X ray later revealed that he
Speaker 1: had twenty nine needles lodged in his pelvic region from
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen to nineteen thirty. Albert's violent fantasies fully came
Speaker 1: to late. He began harming and murdering young children, stating
Speaker 1: that he felt God was commanding him to do so.
Speaker 1: Albert's reign of terror would eventually end with the murder
Speaker 1: of Grace Budd in nineteen twenty eight. Albert met Grace
Speaker 1: after her brother put an ad in the New York
Speaker 1: World seeking a job. Albert posed as a farmer looking
Speaker 1: to hire Edward, although his true intentions were to mutilate him.
Speaker 1: He convinced Grace's parents to have her accompanying him to
Speaker 1: a made up party for his niece, but instead took
Speaker 1: her to an abandoned house, where he killed her and
Speaker 1: then ate her. Several years later, an anonymous letter was
Speaker 1: sent to Grace's parents, and it is too disturbing to
Speaker 1: read here. Police investigated this letter, and while the beginning
Speaker 1: parts could not be verified, the events surrounding Grace's disappearance
Speaker 1: were accurate. What ultimately led police to Albert was a
Speaker 1: small detail on the envelope. There was a small emblem
Speaker 1: with the letters NYPCBA representing New York Private Chauffeur's Manipulate Association.
Speaker 1: A janitor for this company told investigators he had some
Speaker 1: of the stationery at his rooming house, and he had
Speaker 1: left it there when he moved out. Turns out that
Speaker 1: Albert had been staying in the rooming house. Police arrested
Speaker 1: Albert at the rooming house in nineteen thirty four and
Speaker 1: he did not deny the murder. Okay, let's get into
Speaker 1: some modern day cannibalism. I think most people would find
Speaker 1: the idea of cannibalism disgusting. However, cannibalism has played a
Speaker 1: role in the history of medicine and it's still popular today.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of placental encapsulation? Eating your placenta
Speaker 1: has become all the rage. These people who are pro
Speaker 1: eating placentas say that it offers health benefits to help
Speaker 1: with postpartum depression and boost the milk supply. People like
Speaker 1: me who are anti eating placentna say that humans are
Speaker 1: not cats, and its gross and its cannibalism. Although cannibalism
Speaker 1: has been sensationalized in Hollywood with films like Silence of
Speaker 1: the Lambs and Dahmer, it becomes very real, disturbing, and
Speaker 1: unsettling when you learn the real facts of these cases.
Speaker 1: If you still have a taste for cannibalism. You can
Speaker 1: see the photos that go with these cases at the
Speaker 1: grossroom dot com. Cannibalism is rare, but just last year,
Speaker 1: a Michigan man was sentenced to life in prison after
Speaker 1: admitting to killing and eating the genitals of a male lover,
Speaker 1: admitting that he was involved in a violent sexual fetish.
Speaker 1: We can see the cases of Dahmer and gain in
Speaker 1: their obsessive compulsiveness and mental disorders led them to cannibalism.
Speaker 1: Well why Omema. The killing could be justified as a
Speaker 1: result of abuse, but why cooks ribs? Just because human
Speaker 1: remains can be cooked and apparently taste similar to other
Speaker 1: mammals we consume, doesn't mean they should be so after
Speaker 1: all of this cannibalism talk, are you still craving your
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner? Thank you for listening to mother nos death.
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