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Cannibal Blames God

Written by DeadGirl
Saturday, 09 October 2004
October 08, 2004 LONDON: A British fugitive held in Spain over the murder of a British woman has claimed he killed and ate her in a fit of madness. Writing from his prison cell on the Costa Blanca, Paul Durant, 44, who was arrested in February over the killing of Karen Durrell, 41, confessed to her murder and admitted cannibalism, the London Daily Mirror newspaper reported. "After I killed her, I cut her body into small parts, eating what part of her I found eatable," Durant wrote, according to the newspaper. "I finally disposed of what was left in small rubbish bags around Calpe." He added: "Before I killed Karen I told her I had come to Spain where I was going to kill and eat pedophiles. My mental state was breaking down at this stage. I believed God had delivered her to me." The Mirror said Durant, who served two prison terms for armed robberies in the 1980s and 1990s, fled to Spain with a bogus passport after escaping police custody last December following an attempted burglary in London. Durrell was travelling through Spain with her boyfriend when they met Durant in a bar. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11007774%255E2703,00.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries