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Cannibal suspect arrested next to sliced-up victim

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 19 December 2004
By Associated Press CANCUN, Mexico -- Police in Playa de Carmen, just south of the Caribbean resort of Cancun, reported finding a suspect passed out next to the sliced-up remains of his companion, a man whose heart he had allegedly carved out and set to cook on a stove. The corpse was discovered Tuesday in a hut where the victim had been hung up to allow the blood to drain out of his body, according to Luis Herrera May, head of police investigations in Playa de Carmen, about 36 miles south of Cancun. A passer-by alerted police after he saw the body hanging from the rafters of the hut; police arrested a man who inhabited the hut, tentatively identified as Amado de Dios Arias, 26. Arias had apparently carved out the man's heart, and cut off ribs and slices of his thigh, to cook because he felt "curious" about how the flesh would taste, police reported. Arias was apparently under the effects of sniffing glue when he allegedly killed the unidentified victim by hitting him on the head with a blunt object, possibly after a dispute over sex or money. Police have two days before they must lodge formal charges in the case. http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2598330,00.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

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