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A seemingly ordinary married couple has been eating people for 20 years - this shocking news came from the Krasnodar region.

As police officers, the husband and wife abducted people, drugged them with ether and Corvalol, then killed them and ate them piece by piece. What they didn't eat was turned into canned food.

It was possible to reveal the cruelty of the couple only after the husband lost his phone on the street - numerous photographs of mutilated corpses were found there. And at home, the cannibals kept recipes for cooking human flesh and the very canned food into which the killed people turned.

Presumably, the family of cannibals has 30 victims. Law enforcement officials have already been able to prove the involvement of cannibals in the deaths of seven people. There is no separate article for cannibalism in Russian legislation, but, probably, the crimes of the Krasnodar cannibals fit under the articles “Murder” and “Desecration of the bodies of the dead.”

If all 30 episodes are proven, then the crimes will be classified as murders with aggravating circumstances: preliminary conspiracy, premeditated murder, murder with extreme cruelty and, possibly, something else, explains lawyer Konstantin Trapaidze. - These people will be assigned a psychiatric examination. If she shows that they are sane, then the prosecutor's office will definitely request the highest penalty for them - life imprisonment. If the examination finds them insane, then they will face lifelong compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

Now this story is being dealt with by the Investigative Committee. Life found out whether it was possible to figure out in advance the cannibals hiding under the guise of a happy married couple.

Charming ogre

Cannibalism comes in different forms. This can be a way of survival (saving from hunger) or a ritual (sacrifice). All this was common in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages. Nowadays, cannibalism is most often a form of mental disorder.

In 2016, scientists from Altai State University released a study on cannibals (available to Life). The work says that most cannibals had difficult childhoods and were subjected to psychological, physical or sexual abuse. Often the cause of cannibalism is a mental illness, most often schizophrenia.

Schizophrenics cannibals are very aggressive. " The suffering the cannibal endured as a child allows him to inflict suffering on other people; Trying to assert himself, he begins to kill and dismember people and feed on human flesh,” write the authors of the study.

As an example, scientists cite the story of one of the cannibals discovered in modern Russia - Igor Kuzikov. This is “a typical representative of homo anthropofagus - “human-eating man”.

Kuzikov was born into a dysfunctional family in 1961, suffered from schizophrenia, mental retardation, and, in addition, alcoholism. Despite his outward appearance of harmlessness, he was prone to aggression from his youth. He was treated, but in the early 1990s there was a collapse in psychiatry.

As a result, Kuzikov did not receive treatment in the hospital and did not take medication on his own. The criminal met homeless people and tramps on the street, brought them to his one-room apartment, killed and ate them. At the trial, the facts of murder by Kuzikov in 1994–1995 were proven. at least three people. The case materials record horrific details - the body of the last of the killed Kuzikov was dismembered and cooked into jellied meat.

There is a more perverted “direction” of cannibalism - these are cannibals who want to eat their victim because of sexual fantasies. The cannibal is tormented by a painful passion and desire to possess others. Cannibals claim that by eating their prey, they make it a part of themselves, thereby keeping it for themselves. As stated in the study, the most striking example of sexual cannibalism were the crimes of the most famous Russian maniac, Andrei Chikatilo.

Chikatilo's cannibalism had a purely sexual meaning and was generated by his pathetic and unsuccessful attempts to gain biological male status, at least on a psychological level. Andrei Chikatilo has about 65 murders to his name, 36 of which involved cannibalistic tendencies. Chikatilo admitted that he disemboweled his victims in order to gain some kind of sexual pleasure. He did not do this out of revenge or hatred, it brought him peace of mind, the study says.

The study lists some signs of cannibals:

1. IQ is below average - 65–80.
2. Cannot have a university education.
3. Non-standard sexual hobbies (perversion, fetishism).
4. Aggressive within his family, he behaves with restraint in society.
5. Closed
6. Outwardly, a cannibal may look like a happy family man.
7. Can seduce the victim, play with her, and easily gains trust.
8. The cannibal has a predetermined image of the victim (age restrictions, gender, etc.).
9. Returns to the crime scene to monitor the work of the police.

According to psychiatrist-criminologist Mikhail Vinogradov, it is impossible to calculate a cannibal using such a list of signs, just like any other.

- It is extremely difficult to recognize a cannibal from the outside. It will not be possible to identify obvious signs - we have many patients with schizophrenia or other mental disorders, but this does not mean that they are all cannibals, the expert noted.

The psychiatrist gave an example from his practice: in Soviet times, the police caught a man who fed human flesh to his neighbors in a communal apartment. He killed people, brought home the meat and gave part of the spoils to his neighbors. He said that he works as a butcher at the market and these are leftovers that can be eaten. He ate most of it himself. And outwardly he was a very sympathetic, kind, somewhat reserved person. The neighbors were horrified when the crimes were revealed - the cannibal was caught red-handed while murdering one of his victims. As a result, he was shot.

As you can see, it was extremely difficult to recognize a cruel person in the killer based on external signs,” added Vinogradov.

According to the psychiatrist, cannibalism cannot be treated.

It is impossible to cure a cannibal - he will never voluntarily seek help because he does not believe that he is doing anything wrong. The patient’s condition can be maintained with sedatives and isolation, but the craving for cannibalism, if it has already arisen, cannot be eliminated. If such people are released after serving their sentence, they will continue their atrocities,- he explained.

Cannibal subculture

In Soviet times, they tried not to cover stories about cannibals so as not to sow panic, said Mikhail Vinogradov. Now all these shocking stories are easily leaked to the media. Some people abroad are even trying to make money from this.

For example, in 2010, the media wrote about the opening of a “restaurant for cannibals” in Berlin.According to the owners, food will be supplied to it by volunteers who want to donate their organs.

There are also those who are not averse to turning into a cannibal for a while for the sake of the show. In 2016, British TV presenter Greg Foot set out to taste human flesh (his own) live on air. He turned to doctors, who cut off a piece of muscle from him. The idea failed - according to British law, eating human flesh is prohibited.

In our country, there are known cases where cannibalism was associated with a passion for one or another youth subculture. In 2009, in St. Petersburg, two young men killed and ate their 16-year-old girlfriend. When the crime was solved, information leaked to the media that the killers considered themselves “goths” and “emos.” This caused a real explosion in the press and the Internet - people were sure that all “goths” and “emo” devour human flesh, they need to be isolated from society and treated.

Later, the investigation proved that the cruelty of the killers had nothing to do with these subcultures. It is unknown how many “emos” and “goths” suffered from the resulting bullying.

On the one hand, it’s good that the media began to cover this topic. Cannibalism is very dangerous, people must be protected. But you need to be careful with this topic - it can cause people’s unhealthy interest in this topic and provoke new crimes,” said Mikhail Vinogradov.

Just to think about eating a person... no, I can’t even imagine it in my worst nightmare... I once watched a movie about such people, but they were “in the movies”... were they really there? or is there, God forbid???

Cannibalism has been practiced by people since the Stone Age. After all, there was not much food, so the Neanderthals ate their own kind. Later this phenomenon began to be of a religious or sexual nature. With the development of civilization, cannibalism has practically disappeared, although facts of eating bodies or their parts by other people sometimes emerge in history.

Today, such a phenomenon is associated either with maniacs or with savages who have remained at a rudimentary cultural level. Cannibals become despised by the entire civilized society, they are feared, and based on such stories it is time to make horror films. Let's talk below about the most famous eaters of human flesh.

Issei Sagawa. Today this venerable Japanese is a restaurant critic whose essays often appear in Tokyo newspapers and magazines. But this man’s past bears the terrible imprint of cannibalism. Sagawa studied at the Sorbonne, his grades were excellent. Only the Japanese had a strange craving for tall women. On June 1, 1981, Sagawa, who was studying English literature, invited his fellow student, the Dutchwoman Renee Hartvelt. At home, the Japanese killed the girl and then ate her over the next two days. Sagawa hoped to absorb the energy of a beautiful and healthy person. While trying to get rid of the mutilated body, the cannibal was spotted. Five days later he was arrested by French police. Medical experts ruled that the Japanese was insanity and he was extradited to his homeland. After just a year and a half in a mental hospital, the cannibal was released. Perhaps his rich and influential father influenced this. Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a local celebrity. He is often invited to talk shows and consultations. The cannibal himself claims that he is still visited by such wild fantasies, but he will never want to realize them.

Armin Meiwes. This man’s childhood can hardly be called happy - at the age of 8 his parents divorced, and his mother overprotected her son. After her death, Armin lived alone, doing system administration and dating men. In 2001, a 41-year-old man posted an ad on the Internet looking for a young guy between the ages of 18 and 25 who wanted to be eaten. Oddly enough, such a request received a positive response. 43-year-old homosexual Bernd Brandes, also a system administrator, responded to the ad. The lovers began filming their meeting. After another sex session, Meiwes cut off Brandes's penis, which they then ate together. The victim was forced to take a large dose of painkillers along with alcohol. Meiwes then killed his lover by putting his meat in the freezer. For the next few months, the German fed on his former lover. When the cannibal was arrested in December 2002, he managed to eat about 20 kilograms of human flesh. In particular, the ribs were grilled on a barbecue. The court initially sentenced Meiwes to 8.5 years in prison, since the murder was found to be manslaughter. But in May 2006 the case was reviewed, the new sentence meant life imprisonment. Interestingly, in prison Meiwes became a vegetarian and headed a branch of the Green Party.

Jeffrey Dahmer. This American became famous for killing 17 boys and men between 1978 and 1991. Moreover, the crimes were characterized by cruelty, and Dahmer raped and ate the corpses of his victims. The childhood of the future cannibal was difficult. Jeffrey had practically no friends, and his family constantly moved from place to place. From the age of 13, Dahmer realized that he was homosexual. At school, the teenager showed a craving for dead animals, he begins to imagine himself as a participant in scenes of necrophilia and dismemberment of bodies. The first murder took place in 1978, when the maniac was only 18 years old. Over time, Dahmer developed a whole tactic for finding victims. These were usually sexual minorities to whom the guy offered to continue acquaintance outside the walls of the bar. Dahmer wanted his victims to become obedient zombies, for this purpose he made holes in their heads using a drill and acid. Some unfortunates lived after this for up to two days. The maniac practiced necrophilia and ate the bodies of his victims. In 1988, his next victim, a 13-year-old Laotian boy, ran away from Dahmer. The police arrested the maniac, but the court sentenced him to only a year of correctional labor. Even while under investigation, the killer continued to kill people. In the summer of 1991, Dahmer began killing once a week. As a result, his next lover managed to escape, and the police raided the maniac’s apartment. Three heads, a heart and entrails were found in the cannibal's refrigerator. In the toilet, Dahmer kept a pot with hands and penises, body parts were everywhere. In total, the remains of 11 people were found in the apartment. The hearing of the case became very resonant - the maniac was kept behind bulletproof glass, shepherd dogs were on duty, and metal detectors were installed in the courtroom. Punishment overtook the cannibal already in prison - other prisoners killed him with a metal pipe in 1994. The maniac's body lay in the refrigerator for about a year and then was cremated.

Albert Fish. This American killer, maniac and cannibal is known by many nicknames - “The Gray Man”, “The Brooklyn Vampire”, “The Boogie Man”, “The Moon Maniac”. Albert was born in 1870 and was the youngest in a difficult family. Many relatives had psychological problems, suffering from religious mania. At the age of 5, Fish, left without a father, ended up in an orphanage, where he became the object of frequent beatings. Suddenly, Albert discovered that physical pain brought him pleasure. His stay at the shelter and his experiences there left an indelible mark on Fish’s psyche. At the age of 12, he entered into a homosexual relationship with a postman boy. Since 1890, Fish has lived in New York, where he has been involved in prostitution and the rape of young boys. In 1898, the maniac married a person 9 years older than him. The couple had six children. In 1903, Fish was sent to prison for embezzlement, where he regularly had sex with men. The maniac began committing his first murders when he reached the age of 40. The victims were minor children. The story with the girl Grace Budd gave the cannibal away. Fish infiltrated her family, posing as a farmer, and stole the girl, allegedly for a relative’s birthday. Grace was never seen again. Six years later, the family received an anonymous letter, which eventually led the police to Albert Fish. The text told how the formation of a cannibal took place, as well as the story of the death of the poor girl. The maniac described in detail how he ate his victim. The police captured Fish. At his trial, he stated that he had sexual relations with 400 children, although officially one hundred cases were reported. The exact number of the cannibal’s victims is unknown; there were from 7 to 15. On January 16, 1936, the maniac was executed in the electric chair.

Andrey Chikatilo. It's hard to believe that this maniac and cannibal was a school teacher. Chikatilo was considered an exemplary husband, he had two children, he was a member of the CPSU. Nevertheless, the most famous Russian maniac, sadist, ripper and cannibal has 53 proven murders. Chikatilo committed most of his crimes in forest belts adjacent to the cities of Shakhty, Novocherkassk, Novoshakhtinsk. While visiting Rostov-on-Don, Leningrad, Moscow and Tashkent on business trips, Chikatilo killed people there too. In July-August 1984 alone, 8 women and children became his victims. Usually the maniac chose those who seemed to him to be offended by fate and unhappy. These were women who were alcoholics and simply mentally retarded. The excuse put forward was quite simple - to share a drink. Chikatilo lured children into the forest with computers, VCRs, puppies and rare brands. Having killed his victim, the maniac mutilated the bodies - cutting off or biting off tongues, genitals, nipples, noses, fingers. The cannibal opened the abdominal cavity, gnawed and ate the internal organs. The worst thing is that many of the victims were still alive. Almost all of those killed had their eyes gouged out; the maniac himself said that he was superstitiously afraid of the remnants of his image on their retinas. Most likely, Chikatilo was simply afraid of the gaze of his victims. The maniac took the cut off parts of the body with him, eating them later. This was also indicated by the fact that on “trips,” according to his wife, he took a saucepan with him. Chikatilo rarely entered into direct sexual contact with his victims, as he was impotent. His sexual satisfaction was achieved by murder. Catching the maniac took a long time. Chikatilo himself even helped the police as a vigilante. As a result, the killer was nevertheless captured; at the trial he tried to pretend to be crazy. In 1994, the maniac was executed.

Alexander Pierce. The Irishman was born in 1790, and in 1819 he was sentenced to 7 years of exile for stealing several pairs of shoes. Pierce began serving his sentence in Tasmania. There he showed a rebellious character - he was credited with two escapes, theft of carts, and drunkenness. On September 20, 1822, Pierce and 7 other prisoners escaped again. They ventured deep into the dense, rugged forests of Tasmania. After 8 days, the feeling of hunger became so strong that the fugitives killed Alexander Dolton. Pierce said that they didn’t like him anyway because of his voluntary participation in floggings. After this, two fugitives left the group, fearing a similar fate. The fugitives' journey took five weeks, during which time two more weakened comrades were eaten. As a result, the former sailor and guide Greenhill, his friend Travers and Pierce himself survived. It would seem that the Irishman's fate is sealed. However, Travers was bitten by a snake and gangrene began. The starving fugitives also ate this comrade of theirs. Since Pierce and Greenhill had not yet reached inhabited areas, it was clear that one of them would fall prey to the other. For eight days the men did not sleep, fearing each other. As a result, Greenhill fell asleep, and Pierce immediately killed him with an ax. Having reached the populated lands, the cannibal lived in freedom for only a few months. The judges did not believe Pierce's story, believing that this was his way of protecting his hiding comrades. In November 1823, the Irishman fled again, this time with a young companion, who persuaded him to take him with him. When Pierce was caught a few days later, they found human flesh in his pockets, although there was plenty of other food. The cannibal said that he also killed this comrade, dismembering his body. For his crimes, the maniac was sentenced to death by hanging. His last words were that human meat is much tastier than fish or pork.

Go Amen. The future dictator spent his youth in the army, where he showed himself to be cruel and merciless towards his enemies. With Uganda gaining independence, Amin's career is developing rapidly. After the coup d'etat, he became commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and in 1971 he seized power in the country. The first steps of the dictators turned out to be very democratic; they were designed to win over the population and foreign states. Amin promised to give power to civilians after the elections and released political prisoners. But already in 1976, the dictator declared himself president of the state for life. Mass terror began in the country. The dictator kept the head of one of his main opponents, Suleiman Hussein, in his safe. As a result, there were so many murders that there was no time to bury the bodies, simply throwing them into the Nile for the crocodiles. The bloody reign ended in 1979 when Amin fled the country. He died in 2003 in Saudi Arabia. After the end of his reign, it turned out that the cruel ruler was also a cannibal. Yes, he himself did not deny this. Amin said that he ate his dead opponents. A refrigerator containing human body parts was discovered in the dictator's residence. But delegations from foreign countries were received nearby; the ambassadors had no idea about Amin’s wild essence.

Alexey Sukletin. This man worked as a watchman in a horticultural society near Kazan. Together with his accomplices, Madina Sharipova and Anatoly Nikitin, Sukletin created a gang that was engaged in extortion. It was this part of their illegal activity that led to the arrest and search of the maniac’s house in 1985. During excavations of Sukletin's garden, many human bones were found; investigators collected as many as 4 bags. In the guardhouse they found the belongings of the murdered victims and irrefutable evidence of cannibalism, in particular, half a bucket of rendered human lard. It turned out that the criminals even sold human meat to neighbors under the guise of a pair of tenderloins. Cannibals Sukletin treated his unsuspecting friends and guests to human liver. In total, 7 women became victims of the maniac between 1979 and 1985. The youngest victim was only 11 years old. Sukletin cut up the bodies of the dead with a kitchen knife, poured the blood into a basin, forcing his partner to drink. When choosing potential victims, the maniac estimated how much meat or liver there would be. The examination eventually proved Sukletin's sanity; he was shot in 1987 by court verdict.

Nikolay Dzhumagaliev. Maniac was born in 1952. From his youth, he treated women as second-class creatures. Traveling around the country only strengthened the hatred of the weaker sex for their loose morals. As a result, it was precisely these women that the maniac later killed. Dzhumagaliev approached his first murder very responsibly. It was a female cultist. The maniac cut her throat with a knife and began drinking her blood. The killer warmed his frozen hands on his wife’s body, then cut up the body and ate it at home. Dzhumagaliev says that human flesh was tough, but then he got used to eating such food. In 1979, the maniac killed 5 more people, each time the scenario of dismembering and eating corpse meat was repeated. Dzhumagaliev was arrested for the drunken murder of his colleague, but he was released after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Returning home, the cannibal committed three more murders. The ninth in a row became fatal. Having invited friends and girlfriends to visit him, the killer began to dismember one of them right in the next room. Seeing this, people fled in horror, reporting everything to the police. Everyone was so shocked that the fleeing killer was arrested only the next day. However, instead of prison, a mental hospital awaited the maniac, from where he escaped in 1989. He is said to have committed several more murders in Moscow and Kazakhstan. Now the cannibal killer is being held again in a strict psychiatric hospital. Doctors say that Dzhumagaliev has now recovered and is no longer in danger. While he was temporarily released, dismembered bodies were again found in the surrounding area.

Medusa crew. This case of cannibalism went down in history, including painting. Theodore Gericault created the painting "The Raft of Medusa", which captured the scandalous events. On July 5, 1816, the frigate "Medusa", heading to Senegal with the aim of establishing French dominance, was wrecked. The death of the ship was accompanied by terrible scenes. Initially there was no discipline on the ship; all this manifested itself at a critical moment. Part of the team, led by the commander, sailed away in six boats, and 150 people settled on a raft created in a hurry. At sea it turned out that it was so poorly made that it did not protect against the waves, and there were no sails or oars. And most importantly, there was only enough provisions in the form of crackers for one day; several barrels of wine could not correct the situation. The raft struggled with the waves for 13 days. People began to quarrel and fight, embittered by misfortune. Someone himself jumped into the sea from a raft, wanting to die rather than die in a knife fight and be eaten by his comrades. On the fifth day, only thirty people remained on the raft; three were immediately thrown overboard for attempting to steal. Those who remained began to think about how to prolong their existence. Twelve of them were declared too weak to continue living in pain. They decided to throw them overboard in order to save the remaining provisions from the human ball and the fish that accidentally jumped onto the lot. As a result, the Argus ship picked up the raft, the picture that appeared shocked everyone - pieces of human flesh were drying on ropes, and the remaining people literally went mad.

Guidebooks warn of many dangers that may await travelers in a particular country. But no one warns about cannibalism. Surprise! Cannibalism is still practiced in some tribes such as India, Cambodia and West Africa. And here are 7 countries where tribes are still not averse to feasting on people.

South East Papua New Guinea

The Korowai tribe is one of the last on Earth that regularly eats human flesh. They live along the river, and there have been cases when they killed random tourists. Healers also considered warm brains a real delicacy.

Why do they eat people? When someone in the tribe dies for no apparent reason (illness or old age), they consider it an act of black magic and, in order to protect others from harm, must eat the person.

Interesting fact: In 1961, Michael Rockefeller (son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller) disappeared while collecting artifacts about the tribe. His body was never found.

India

The North Indian Hindu sect of Aghori eats volunteers who bequeath their entrails. However, in 2005, Indian television crews conducted an investigation and learned that they also eat decaying corpses from the Ganges (a local tradition), and also steal organs from crematoria.

Why do they eat people?

Aghori believe that this prevents aging of the body.

Interesting fact: They make really nice jewelry out of human bone and skulls.

Fiji

Formerly known as "Cannibal Island". Until now, local residents cannot restore order, and there are still those who eat human flesh, but not all, but only those of enemy tribes.

Why do they eat people? This is a ritual of revenge.

Interesting fact: Fijian cannibals are not animals at all - they eat with cutlery and collect rare things left over from their victims. You can find examples of such collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.

Brazil

The Wari tribe ate pious and religious dead until 1960, and after that some government missionaries slaughtered almost the entire tribe. However, poverty levels in Olinda's slums have been prohibitively high since 1994, and outbreaks of cannibalism still occur.

Why do they eat people? Poverty and hunger.

Interesting fact: In 2012, information appeared from researchers who interviewed local residents, and they claimed that they heard voices that told them to kill this or that person.

West Africa

The Leopard Society of Active Cannibals has been eating people since the last century. Until the 80s, human remains were found in the vicinity of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. The tribe is usually dressed in leopard skins and armed with their fangs.

Why do they eat people? The tribe believes that eating people makes them stronger and faster.

Interesting fact: They have a following - the Human Alligator community, which does similar things.

Cambodia

Journalist Neil Davis reported that cannibalism in these regions gained momentum during the wars in Southeast Asia (in the 1960s and 1970s). Nowadays, manifestations of cannibalism are occasionally observed.

Why do they eat people? The Cambodian troops had a ritual - eating the liver of the enemy.

Interesting fact: Many people in cities and villages were under the control of the Khmer Rouge organization, which strictly controlled all food in the area and artificially created famine in the country.

Congo

There are known cases of cannibalism in the Congo, and the latest were recorded not so long ago - in 2012. They reached their maximum during the Congolese civil war (from 1998 to 2002).

Why do they eat people? During the war, rebel groups believed that enemies should be eaten, especially the heart, which was cooked using special herbs.

Interesting fact: Congolese still believe that the human heart gives special strength, and if there are people, this will scare away enemies.

Alexey Sukletin

A security guard at a gardening association, Alexei Sukletin, and his partner lured naive women into their “nature house,” raped them, and then ate them. They made kebabs and dumplings out of people. They fed their dog and sold it to neighboring summer residents under the guise of marinated pork for barbecue. They say that people who tasted their delicacy could not even stand the smell of meat for a long time.

It was possible to catch the criminals thanks to their sense of impunity: Sukletin ate people for two years, and he got away with everything. But one day a local alcoholic said that he came to visit Sukletin and asked over a bottle where his wife was. And he, laughing, pointed to the barrel: “Yes, look over there!” The head of a woman with loose hair floated in the bloody water. Later, the task force discovered a whole arsenal of devices to satisfy the bloodthirsty whims of the monster: a nail was driven in above the door, on which the cannibal butchered the suspended people; different-sized cutting boards and knives were placed on the shelves.

Sukletin was found guilty of murdering at least seven girls and women and executed by firing squad in 1987. His partner received 15 years in prison.

Alexander Pierce

In 1819, an Irishman was sentenced to seven years of exile for stealing several pairs of shoes. Pierce began serving his sentence in Tasmania, but he did not intend to sit for that long. On September 20, 1822, Pierce and seven other prisoners escaped. They went deep into the dense, impenetrable forests of Tasmania, but after eight days the feeling of hunger became so strong that the fugitives began to kill the weakest ones one by one. There were only two survivors: guide Greenhill and Pierce himself. For eight days the men did not sleep, fearing each other. As a result, Greenhill fell asleep, and Pierce immediately killed him with an ax.

Having reached the populated lands, the cannibal lived in freedom for only a few months. The judges did not believe Pierce's story, believing that this was his way of protecting his hiding comrades. In November 1823, the Irishman fled again, this time with a young companion, who persuaded him to take him with him. When Pierce was caught a few days later, they found human flesh in his pockets, although there was plenty of other food. The cannibal said that he also killed this comrade, dismembering his body.

For his crimes, the maniac was sentenced to death by hanging. His last words were that human meat is much tastier than fish or pork.

Armin Meiwes

At the end of January 2004, a German court sentenced the world-famous cannibal Armin Meiwes. A 42-year-old programmer from Rothenburg killed with his consent and ate Siemens engineer Bernd Jürgen Brandes. The man met his victim by placing an advertisement on the Internet looking for a well-fed victim for a cannibal meal. Meiwes first had sex with Brandes and then abused him for several hours, amputating his penis, which he later fried with spices and ate along with other meat.

The cannibal insisted that everything that happened was agreed upon with Brandes and was done according to his wishes. The prosecution demanded life imprisonment for the cannibal. The killer's lawyer insisted that the crime was committed at the request of the victim, and therefore it should be regarded as "assisted suicide." The court decided to reject the defense's arguments, but at the same time spare the cannibal and not condemn him to death in prison, giving him only 8.5 years in prison as a punishment for “manslaughter.”

Jeffrey Dahmer

The first murder took place in 1978, when the maniac was only 18 years old. Over time, Dahmer developed a whole tactic for finding victims. These were usually representatives of sexual minorities, to whom the guy offered to continue acquaintance outside the walls of the bar. Dahmer wanted his victims to become obedient zombies, for this purpose he made holes in their heads using a drill and acid. Some unfortunates lived after this for up to two days.

The maniac practiced necrophilia and ate the bodies of his victims. In 1988, his next victim, a 13-year-old Laotian boy, ran away from Dahmer. The police arrested the maniac, but the court sentenced him to only a year of correctional labor. Even while under investigation, Dahmer continued to kill people. In the summer of 1991, he began killing once a week. As a result, his next lover managed to escape, and the police raided the maniac’s apartment.

Three heads, a heart and entrails were found in the cannibal's refrigerator. In the toilet, Dahmer kept a pot with hands and penises, body parts were everywhere. In total, the remains of 11 people were found in the apartment. The hearing of the case became very resonant - the maniac was kept behind bulletproof glass, shepherd dogs were on duty, and metal detectors were installed in the courtroom. Punishment overtook the cannibal already in prison - other prisoners killed him with a metal pipe in 1994. The maniac's body lay in the refrigerator for about a year and then was cremated.

Andrey Chikatilo

Chikatilo was considered an exemplary husband, he had two children, he was a member of the CPSU. Nevertheless, the most famous Russian maniac, sadist, ripper and cannibal has 53 proven murders. Usually the maniac chose those who seemed to him to be offended by fate and unhappy. These were women who were alcoholics and simply mentally retarded. The excuse put forward was quite simple - to share a drink. Chikatilo lured children into the forest with computers, VCRs, puppies and rare brands.

Having killed his victim, the maniac mutilated the bodies - cutting off or biting off tongues, genitals, nipples, noses, fingers. The cannibal opened the abdominal cavity, gnawed and ate the internal organs. The worst thing is that many of the victims were still alive. Almost all of those killed had their eyes gouged out; the maniac himself said that he was superstitiously afraid of the remnants of his image on their retinas.

The maniac took the cut off parts of the body with him, eating them later. Chikatilo rarely entered into direct sexual contact with his victims, as he was impotent. His sexual satisfaction was achieved by murder. Catching the maniac took a long time. Chikatilo himself even helped the police as a vigilante. As a result, the killer was nevertheless captured; at the trial he tried to pretend to be crazy. In 1994, the maniac was executed.

Every religious culture has an idea of ​​so-called forbidden food. For example, Hindus cannot eat beef, but they can eat pigs, which is taboo among their Muslim neighbors. In the overall complexity and intricacy of the traditions of different peoples, all living things can be safely divided into two categories - what you can eat, and what you can make love with. Therefore, in all normal cuisines of the world there is a ban on eating human meat, which, however, some unique children of the human race manage to bypass, causing fear and disgust towards themselves

Dorangel Vargas

A fellow countryman of the late Chavez, who built the world’s first anarchic state, the Venezuelan tramp Jose Dorangel Vargas Gomez was born in 1957 and, upon reaching adulthood, was awarded the media nickname “Hannibal Lecter of the Andes Mountains.”

The strange Latino first attracted attention in 1995, when the remains of a missing man were discovered in his home. Then Vargas was sent to an insane asylum, from where he was released two years later for good behavior

In 1999, police in the city of San Cristobal again discovered human flesh in the barracks where Dorangel Vargas lived. This time ten skulls and other remains of numerous victims were found. At first, the cannibal admitted that he ate people, but did not kill them. They say that someone else brought him the bodies. Believing the madman, the authorities assumed that Vargas was covering up some illegal operations to remove and transport organs for transplantation. However, the prisoner soon admitted that he personally hunted passers-by in a city park and over the course of 2 years killed and devoured ten men

Venezuelan Hannibal Lecter preferred male meat to female meat because “men are tasty, but women are not.” In an interview, the maniac said that anyone can eat human flesh, the main thing is to prepare it correctly so as not to get sick. Personally, Vargas preferred caviar and thighs, preparing a delicious appetizer from tongues and a “healthy, nutritious” soup from human eyes. The cannibal did not eat the hands, feet or genitals. The killer didn’t touch fat people either - because of bad cholesterol. After such confessions, Dorangel Vargas was sent to a mental hospital for life, where the cannibal lives to this day. Many of his compatriots still believe that the crazy tramp was framed, and that he was fed corpses... by the police themselves, protecting some “black” transplantologists

Kevin Ray Underwood

Mr. Underwood was born in December 1979, grew up working in a grocery store, and would have lived an unremarkable American life if he had not been arrested in April 2006 for the murder of 10-year-old girl Jamie Rose Bolin in Oklahoma.

Underwood and Bolin lived in the same apartment building. On April 17, 7 years ago, police found the remains of a girl's body in a large plastic container hidden in Kevin's room. The killer did not resist the detectives (“Come in, arrest her, she’s here!”) and said that he beat his neighbor to death with a cutting board, strangled her with his bare hands, and then tried to behead her in order to cut her up and eat her. Officers recovered a meat hammer and barbecue skewers from the crime scene.

People who knew Underwood personally considered him a quiet, dull and generally reliable young man. Kevin himself, allegedly as a joke, discussed issues of cannibalism on the Internet, and was also interested in what would happen if he stopped taking antidepressants

At his trial in February 2008, Underwood admitted that his plan was cunning and stupidly vile: kidnap a person, rape him, torture and kill him, then cut off his head, bleed him, rape the corpse, eat the meat, and bury the inedible remains somewhere. But more than anything, Kevin wanted to “become a normal person.” The meeting lasted only 23 minutes, the judge pronounced the death sentence - to execute the cannibal by lethal injection. To this day, the convicted person writes appeals, but every new court rejects them

Robert John Maudsley

One of the prototypes of the literary and cinematic maniac Hannibal Lecter, Robert John Maudsley was born in the summer of 1953 in Liverpool, into a large dysfunctional family, and for the first 8 years he grew up in the Nazareth orphanage under the care and supervision of nuns. The Beatles were rehearsing somewhere nearby...

Returning home, the little Englishman, the future serial killer, was regularly beaten by his father, hated his family and therefore soon preferred the street to his father's house, where he became addicted to drugs. In the late 1960s, Robert began to earn money for a living and for fun by moving to London and becoming a call boy - a prostitute. He tried to commit suicide several times and was placed on a psychiatric register. Resentment towards his parents deformed Maudsley’s consciousness, and his first victim in 1973 was pedophile John Farrell, who filmed Robert and began showing him photographs of the children he had abused. Maudsley got stuck and in a fit of rage he strangled the lecherous client, having mocked him first

The court sentenced Robert Maudsley to life imprisonment without any right to release. The basis for this decision was that the pedophile’s skull was opened and part of the brain disappeared somewhere - the investigator decided that Maudsley was also involved in cannibalism. In 1977, in the closed Broadmoor mental hospital, Robert, together with another psycho prisoner, John Cheeseman, committed another murder. The convicts took a crazy child molester hostage and tortured him for a long time, until he died, after which Maudsley split the pedophile's skull like an egg and tasted his brains with a spoon

A year later, a repeat killer killed two more prisoners. The first was the sexual maniac S. Durwood. Maudsley invited him into his cell, where he strangled him, stabbed him to death and hid him under the bed. The criminal got a knife from somewhere, they say it was homemade. The second victim that day was a certain Bill Roberts, to whom Robert plunged a weapon into the skull and then smashed his head against the wall. Then he went to the officer on duty and calmly put the knife on the table. In order to prevent further murders and cannibalism, Maudsley was placed in a special double-walled cell made of reinforced plexiglass with cardboard furniture and a concrete bed, thereby completely eliminating the serial killer's contact with potential victims. This camera later served as the prototype for the “home” of the cinematic character Hannibal Lecter

In 2000, Maudsley wrote to The Times newspaper asking that he, the loneliest man in England, be allowed to listen to classical music and get a budgie. In case of refusal, he begged to give him an ampoule with cyanide, because the maniac was tired of “living like this.” In February 2008, it was reported that Robert Maudsley was very thin, was addicted to refusing food and water, and was close to death. They say that a doctor visits him every day in the basement of Wakefield Prison. Maudsley knows nothing about the film “The Silence of the Lambs” and its sequels. One of the jailers who guarded the criminal for 25 years writes that Robert “Lecter” did not actually eat anyone’s brains. Go now and find out the truth of many years ago

Armin Meiwes

The Englishman Maudsley “punished” pederasts, the German Meiwes himself is one, but, let’s say, non-standard. Armin was born on December 1, 1961 in Essen, and is now in prison for life. If dressed up, he looks like a politician or businessman. Before his arrest, he worked as a computer equipment repairman.

In 2001, the “Rothenburg butcher” posted an advertisement on the Internet on the “Cannibal Cafe” website seeking a victim to eat. A certain Bernd Jürgen Brandes, a crazy engineer from Berlin, responded to the crazy post. The men met on March 9, 2001 at Meiwes’s house and recorded everything on video, realizing a terrible scenario discussed in detail by the German men in a chat.