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Face-chewing victim speaks out in police interview
MIAMI (AP) — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre assault alongside a busy South Florida highway told police that his attacker "just ripped me to ribbons." In a recorded interview with investigators, Ronald Poppo said the...
Tags: Lab Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Rudy Eugene, The Miami Herald, Miami Beach
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Morgan lawyers ask judge to dismiss Kinyua beating suit
Lawyers for Morgan State University have asked a judge to dismiss a case filed by a student beaten by Alexander Kinyua, who was later accused in a separate case of killing a family friend and eating his organs. Joshua Ceasar was attacked by Kinyua...
Tags: Murder, Trials, Lawyers, Alexander Kinyua, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie
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Living blind: How Causeway Cannibal victim and others forge on
In a briefing on the medical condition of Causeway Cannibal victim Ronald Poppo, doctors and therapists last week expressed confidence that the longtime homeless man blinded in a vicious assault could once again lead an independent life. But in the year...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Blindness, Health and Medical Professionals, New York City, Physical Conditions
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Questions and answers for Jamestown cannibalism case
Few archaeological finds have been as sensational as the first physical evidence of cannibalism unearthed at Historic Jamestowne in 2012 and announced in a riveting press conference at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History on...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History, Historic Jamestowne, Smithsonian Institution
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'Causeway Cannibal' victim keeps positive attitude nearly a year later
When the so-called Causeway Cannibal chewed off a homeless man's face, disfiguring and blinding him, images of the facial injuries spread across the Internet and sparked worldwide revulsion. Yet nearly a year after that brutal assault in Miami, Ronald...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, New York City, Rudy Eugene
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Jamestown cannibalism expert has worked here before
Famed Smithsonian Institution forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley, whose study of cannibalism and Native American scalping rituals made him indispensable to confirming the first physical evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown last week, has contributed...
Tags: Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Historic Jamestowne, Smithsonian Institution, Hampton Roads
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Cannibalism claim adds charge to stabbing suspect in Winchester
The suspect in the stabbing of a Winchester woman is facing new charges after he claimed to be a cannibal and threatened to eat a Winchester Police officer. Police spent most of Wednesday morning searching for 25-year-old Brandon Hocker after he...
Tags: Police Arrests
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Science and Technology, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History, Dismemberment
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Stabbing suspect arrested in Winchester
Police arrested the suspect in Tuesday night's stabbing as he walked along Belmont Avenue this afternoon. Brandon Hocker, 25 of 221 College St., is now facing second-degree assault charges along with terroristic threatening for allegedly saying he was a...
Tags: Police Arrests, Colleges and Universities
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Television review: 'Hannibal' drains the mirth out of Lecter
NBC sent out five episodes of its "Silence of the Lambs" prequel "Hannibal," and although the reasons to stop watching (when in doubt, impale a woman!) too often outweighed the reasons to continue (Hugh Dancy, tracked by a dangerous dream deer), I...
Tags: Murder, Arts and Culture, Criminals, Bones (tv program), NBC (tv network)
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Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible
Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Tags: Murder, Schizophrenia, Psychiatry, Trials, Dismemberment
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Warrant: Texas suspect interested in cannibalism
HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and about cutting off people's faces and wearing them as masks, according to a...
Tags: Murder, Colleges and Universities, Prisons
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