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Hungry For Humans: 15 Shockingly True Stories of Cannibalism

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Hannibal Lecter made cannibalism famous, but he was just a fictional character. The real Hannibal Lecter's of the world are much more frightening.

One would hope that real cannibalism only exists in remote uncivilized parts of the world. Cannibalism in major cities across the world, however, is alive and well. This book tracks down 15 of the most gruesome stories of cannibalism.

Be warned, dear reader, this is one book you might not want to read while eating!



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Introduction 
 Cannibalism is one of the most unspeakable evils known to humanity. The eating of human flesh is so repulsive that it is widely considered to be Satanic.

Most of the world’s religions, including Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism, regard it as a sin. Many believers and others associate cannibalism with witchcraft and devil worship. The fairy tale about the witch trying to eat Hansel and Gretel is a reminder of such beliefs.

Those that murder others and consume their flesh are considered the worst of all criminals. Even hardened criminals recoil from such people and attempt to destroy them. Notorious American cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered under suspicious circumstances in prison, probably because his fellow inmates hated the idea of being near him. Even Dahmer’s possessions were eventually destroyed because authorities were apparently afraid of them.

Cannibalism is so offensive that it always provokes a violent and emotional response even from seemingly rational individuals. It is easy to see why people are so fascinated by cannibals. Nobody has a neutral opinion about them, and they are one of the few classes of humanity that still provokes universal hatred even in the 21st Century, and will likely always continue to do so.


America’s Most Famous Cannibal: Jeffrey Dahmer 

 Few monsters have captured the public imagination in the way that Jeffrey Dahmer did. The extent of the maniac from Milwaukee’s killing spree and the sheer brutality of his crimes were enough to repulse and fascinate the American people.

Dahmer inflicted an incredible number of atrocities on his victims in an increasing spree of violence that lasted nearly two decades. During his killing spree, Dahmer drilled holes into his victims’ heads, tried to lobotomize living victims, and practiced necrophilia and many kinds of torture. He also ate the flesh of at least some of his victims.

Fascination with Dahmer increased when it was discovered that one of the worst serial killers in history was a meek and mild-mannered man who lived with his grandmother. On the surface, Dahmer seemed to be a harmless drunk and loser, who spent his time hustling in gay bars. In reality he was a monster whose actions would shock a nation.

 Normal Childhood and Failure 

 When he wasn’t killing, Jeffrey Dahmer was a complete failure. He never held a job, didn’t complete college, got kicked out of the Army, and apparently never had a stable relationship or friendship with another human being. Instead, his only interests seemed to be killing and torture, which he was good at.

Dahmer’s parents, Lionel and Joyce, were apparently loving and an ordinary middle class couple. The only unusual incident in Dahmer’s youth was hernia surgery at age six. This reportedly changed Dahmer’s personality; he became an insecure teenager with few friends. Yet he showed no propensity to violence.

Dahmer’s first victim was a hitchhiker named Steven Hicks, who he killed right after high school graduation. In a pattern he would repeat often, Dahmer took Hicks home, got drunk, had sex with him, and killed him. Dahmer then chopped Hicks up, put his body in trash bags, and buried them in the woods behind his parents’ Ohio home.

 Bloodbath in Milwaukee 

 According to Dahmer’s claims (which cannot be believed), he didn’t kill anybody for nearly ten years. Instead, he became an alcoholic and a failure. By 1987 Dahmer was living an aimless existence in his grandmother’s house in Milwaukee.

In 1987 Dahmer killed another man, named Steven Toumi. He cut the corpse up, took it home, and had sex with it before throwing the body away like it was trash. Toumi’s death started a killing spree that lasted for five years and claimed 16 lives. The brutality increased as the spree progressed.

Dahmer’s method was simple. He would seek out lonely looking men in gay bars then lure them to his grandmother’s basement with promises of booze, money, sex, and drugs. The only problem was that the drinks Dahmer would serve were laced with drugs. Once his victims were unconscious, he would strangle them and treat the corpse as if it were a play toy.

 Corpses as Play Toys 

 It is obvious that Jeffrey Dahmer lacked any sort of remorse or restraint. He treated his victims as play toys; he ate parts of their bodies, used them as sex toys, and began performing all sorts of gruesome experiments on the corpses and living victims.

Dahmer drilled holes in victims’ heads and injected them with acid in an attempt to lobotomize them, perhaps in an effort to create a mindless sex slave. Dahmer even claimed one of his experiments lived for a number of days.

Dahmer even saved skulls and other body parts so he could masturbate on them. He also took pictures of his activities so that he could relive his fun. It isn’t known if Dahmer’s grandmother knew what he was doing or not, but she eventually threw him out.

The police were also aware of Dahmer; he was arrested for molesting a 13-year-old boy. Dahmer was able to convince the court that he had psychological problems and was released. Evidence indicates that Dahmer may have been stalking and killing victims during the trial.

 How He Got Away with It 

 Dahmer got away with the crimes because he usually targeted young African American men. The reason for this was not racial but opportunity. African American men were more likely to be ashamed of being gay and often ostracized from their families. Dahmer found a population of men that wouldn’t be missed.

Many of his victims were runaways or hustlers, who had been thrown out of their family homes for being gay. Homophobia helped the predator cover his tracks.

 The One That Got Away Ends the Killing Spree 

 Jeffrey Dahmer’s luck ran out on July 22, 1991, when he lured a man named Tracy Edwards to his home. Edwards was somehow able to get loose and escape from Dahmer’s apartment of horrors. Police found Edwards wandering the streets handcuffed.

Edwards told the officers that a “weird dude” had drugged and restrained him. Officers decided to check out the complaint and went to the weird dude’s apartment. The first thing they noticed was the photographs that Dahmer had taken of his victims. The officers overpowered and restrained Dahmer.

A search of the apartment revealed a house of horrors in the center of Milwaukee. The gruesome contents of the apartment included a severed head in the refrigerator, three more severed heads in the freezer, jars containing the penises of Dahmer’s victims, and the skulls of several victims.

 Celebrity and Death in Prison 

 Dahmer confessed his crimes but eventually pleaded not guilty to murder. He later changed his plea in a trial that became a circus. The public was angry, and there was fear of rioting and a lynch mob in the African American community in Milwaukee. The public was incensed because there was only one black face in the jury box.

Authorities took no chances; security measures in the courtroom included a wall of bullet proof glass surrounding Dahmer. Since Wisconsin had no death penalty, Dahmer was eventually sentenced to 957 years in prison for his crimes.

Dahmer became a celebrity, giving interviews to reporters and generating publicity by claiming to become a Christian. The monster was even baptized behind bars. Yet he only served two years of the sentence.

 Mysterious Death Behind Bars 

 On November 28, 1994, another convicted murderer named Christopher Scarver reportedly beat Dahmer and another prisoner to death while on a work detail. The official account of Dahmer’s death is hard to believe. The story is that Scarver, who was schizophrenic, was able to overpower two other men and beat them to death with a broom handle.

A more plausible story is that guards simply looked the other way while prison gang members beat Dahmer and another prisoner, named Jesse Anderson, to death. Anderson was a member of a white supremacist gang. Dahmer’s death was probably prison justice administered by an African American prison gang. Hardened gangsters, murderers, and drug dealers might have hated the idea of sharing their cell block with somebody as monstrous as Dahmer.

 A Symbol of Evil 

 Dahmer has gone down as a symbol of evil. Even his possessions have been seen as diabolical; in 1996 the city of Milwaukee reportedly spent more than $400,000 to buy the contents of Dahmer’s house of horrors. The paraphernalia purchased included the refrigerator where the monster kept the heads, his gruesome photo collection, and killing tools. The items were reportedly burned to keep them from becoming the center of a Jeffrey Dahmer Museum. Milwaukee’s city fathers and mothers didn’t want such a tourist attraction.

Even that act of destruction has not stifled interest in Dahmer. He is still a popular Google search and will go down as a symbol of evil for generations to come.

Bibliography 

 Biography.com. "Jeffrey Dahmer." n.d. biography.com. Biography.com Feature Story. 25 May 2013.

Terry, Don. "Jeffrey Dahmer, Multiple Killer, is Bludgeoned to Death in Prison." 29 November 1994. nytimes.com. New York Times News Article. 25 May 2013.

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