PRISONER KILLS CELLMATE, EATS LUNGtelegraph - A French prisoner killed his cellmate then sliced open his chest to remove and eat his heart, a court has heard. However, the man removed the wrong organ, and ate his lung by mistake.
Nicolas Cocaign, 39, appeared in court in the northern city of Rouen for allegedly killing Thierry Baudry in January 2007 by punching and kicking him, stabbing him with a pair of scissors and suffocating him with a rubbish bag.
Mr Cocaign then allegedly sliced open Baudry's chest with a razor blade, removed a rib and pulled out an organ which he believed was the man's heart, but which in fact was a lung. He is accused of eating part of the lung raw and then frying the rest of it with some onions on a makeshift cooker in the cell in the Rouen prison.
"I wanted to take his soul," Mr Cocaign, who at the time of the crime was in custody awaiting trial for attempted armed robbery, allegedly told an investigating judge probing the case. A verdict in the trial is expected on Thursday.
NOTE: ...However, the man removed the wrong organ, and ate his lung by mistake. Not the sharpest tack in the jailhouse...Lon
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CHINESE TODDLER HOOKED ON CIGARETTES AND BEER
That Indonesian kid who chain-smokes has nothing on this 3-year-old - she's hooked on nicotine AND beer after a horrific traffic accident.Chinese toddler Ya Wen started downing pints and smoking up to a pack a day after being struck by a speeding van and spending five days in a coma, her parents told the Yangcheng Evening Post.
"She likes drinking," her mother, Gao Wen, said.
"Three glasses of beer is no problem to her."
Gao Wen said her daughter's personality changed dramatically and she started acting like an adult shortly after leaving the hospital.
First, she was busted hiding in the toilet smoking her dad's cigs. Then she began stealing them from a store - until the owner let her have them on credit.
"The first time I found her smoking was in the toilet," her mother said.
"Before that, I often saw cigarette butts in the toilet but thought they were my husband's, until I saw my daughter smoking there."
The store owner said he assumed the child was buying the butts for Dear Old Dad, adding that the child would take up to two packs away at a time.
The family lives in a shelter in Huizhou, China, and collects and sells garbage for cash.
Ya Wen's father recently gave up smoking to set a good example for his child but she still cries for them.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian tot who made headlines with his habit is cutting down.
Ardi Rizal, 2, used to throw tantrums if he didn't have 40 cigarettes a day but he is down to just 15 a day.
"He's totally addicted," Ardi's mother, Diana, 26, said recently.
"If he doesn't get cigarettes, he gets angry and screams and batters his head against the wall. He tells me he feels dizzy and sick."
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AFRICAN KILLER CULT REVEALED
nation - The latest man to claim that he is a killer has told police that he belongs to a cult that specialises in ritual killings.
The man, who is said to come from Uyoma in Rarieda District, was arrested after claiming that he killed Ms Devina Amenya in a lodging in Keroka town.
He has told police that the cult has branches in Kisumu, Kericho, and Nairobi. “He said they kill their victims and shave off the hair, which they present to their leader every last Friday of the month as proof that they have accomplished a mission,” said local police boss Shadrack Maithya.
Mr Maithya said the man was found with human hair suspected to have been shaved from Ms Amenya, his last victim. The suspect’s confession could give Rachuonyo police leads in solving the mysterious murder of a woman in a Kendu Bay lodging two months ago.
Ms Margaret Abuko, a nurse at Kendu Adventist Hospital, was killed on the night of April 9-10. She had reportedly booked the room and was later joined by a female companion who could not be traced when her body was discovered.
The death left investigators perplexed as no traces of the killer could be found. She was later buried at her Kagan home in Homa Bay District.
Rachuonyo police boss Stephen Munguti said he could not discuss the matter in detail as he arrived a month after the incident. “I arrived here after the killings and the former CID boss who handled the matter was transferred to Webuye,” he said.
On Monday, another woman reported to Nyamira police how the suspect attempted to kill her in a Kisii lodging. She told investigators that she had known the assailant for a year .
Mr Maithya said the woman, whose name police could not disclose, will be a witness when the man appears in court. Several people whose names were mentioned in the confessions as accomplices were being sought by police.
The 22-year-old man is said to have confessed he joined the cult while at secondary school. In the Keroka killing, he booked the lodging through a waiter at the bar and registered as G. Otieno. No other details were given.
The Nyamira police boss said CID officers from Nyamira, Kericho and Nyando were working together to establish if the confessions were true.
He claims to have killed three people in Bondo, two in Nyando, one in Sotik and one in Masaba North district. But when he was arrested, he claimed he had killed five people in Kendu Bay, Katito, Kapsoit, which did not feature in Monday’s briefing.
Nyando police boss Patrick Mbarire said he could not verify the man’s claims.
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Bondo DC Mohamud Salim said no mysterious deaths had been reported in lodgings in the district while Rarieda DO 1, Mr Mohamud Hussein, also said no such cases were reported in the district.
Mr Maithya said the man had a Kenyan passport which was issued in 2009 but had never been used. On Monday, people who came into contact with the man described him as a charming person.
A woman, who said she was the last person to visit Ms Amenya at the Obomo Hotel room, and identified herself as Judith, said the man posed no danger. “He is the kind of person you want to meet. They are always nice to us and treat us well,” Judith said.
Sources said the suspect, is very eloquent, appeared calm and happy during the interrogation. He apparently killed Ms Amenya, after his initial target, Duke Monyancha, a 20-year-old employee of the lodging escaped from him.
Mr Monyancha had shown the alleged killer around Keroka the previous night. “He kept asking me about the town and he wanted us to walk along dark streets. He seemed to be happy about something but would not tell me about it,” Mr Monyancha said.
Mr Monyancha said he told him he wanted to visit the US soon for a “mission.” During interrogation, the man said he wanted to kill Mr Monyancha.
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WALKING WITH ALIENS
During the 2010 UFO Festival in Roswell, New Mexico, authors Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, and E.J. Wilson will offer special walking tours of several key locations at the former Roswell Army Air Field that are directly linked to the 1947 UFO incident.
Roswell, NM, June 21, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Visitors to the 2010 Roswell UFO Festival are invited to visit the former Army air field where a crashed UFO and alien bodies were allegedly hidden from the public in 1947. On July 2 and again on July 3, UFO investigators Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, and E. J. Wilson will take groups on a 90-minute narrated tour that will cover two miles and visit nine key sites directly involved in the infamous Roswell UFO incident. The official Web site for the "Roswell UFO Walking Tours" is RoswellTours.com.
"It's something that I don't think has ever been offered before," said Ruben Uriarte, state director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in Northern California and a long-time investigator of UFO cases in the Southwestern U.S., including the Roswell case. "I think it will be a unique opportunity for UFO enthusiasts to walk near several of the most important places where the Roswell Incident happened back in 1947. There have been tours to several of the alleged UFO crash sites, but that really wasn't where the real action in this case took place. Really, everything happened here at the old Roswell Army Air Field, and we're so lucky that many of the buildings and structures still stand."
With their tour groups in tow, the authors will tell the amazing story of the world's most famous UFO case, as they stop to point out where everything happened at the former air field. "Before we start our walk, we will describe the sites that we will visit so that everyone will know what to look for," Torres said. "And then as we walk along, we will tell more of the story behind each place.
Torres has based the walking tours on his recently-published book "Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash: A Tour of Roswell's UFO Landmarks" (February 2010, RoswellBooks.com) After it was published, Torres and Uriarte came up with the idea to offer short tours of several of the key UFO landmarks mentioned in the book. Torres said, "After spending a couple of years researching these important sites, reading eyewitness testimony, and visiting the locations, we felt it would be great not only to hold lectures about the book, but also to actually take people out on narrated walking tours of the former Roswell Air Field, where most of the really weird stuff happened."
During the Roswell UFO Festival (July 1-5), Torres and Uriarte will also be presenting three lectures at the Roswell UFO Museum, 114 North Main Street. On July 2 at 8:30 a.m., the authors will speak about their book "Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash," published in 2007 by RoswellBooks.com. On July 3 at 3 p.m., Torres and Uriarte will speak on their latest book, "Ultimate Guide to the Roswell UFO Crash." On July 4 at 1 p.m., they will speak about their 2008 book, "The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border."
"Ultimate Guide" has received many favorable reviews and has been on the top 10 list of bestselling UFO books on Amazon.com. Veteran UFO researcher Kevin Randle said recently, "If you are planning to visit Roswell, this book tells you all you need to know about the UFO crash, the city and its character. It condenses the confusion of the case into an easily read book that will help anyone make the most of a visit to city and help understand what actually happened. A very nice addition to the Roswell literature."
"Prior to the publication of this book, few people knew exactly where to look for this spell-binding hidden history. Now, contained herein are the resources needed to visit all the major historical sites related to the alleged UFO crash," said John LeMay, Roswell historian and author, who wrote the book's afterword.
Another collaborator in Torres' book was Jesse Marcel, Jr., son of the former Army intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. The elder Marcel was the first former soldier stationed in Roswell to disclose that a UFO had crashed and had been recovered back in July 1947. Marcel, Jr. wrote the forward for Torres' book, in which he stated, "Here you will read about my former home, which still stands in Roswell and where we examined the strange wreckage. You will also read about many other places, including the mysterious RAAF aircraft hanger, where UFO wreckage and bodies were temporarily stored. Through a clearer understanding of the Roswell event, we discover greater truth about the universe and our place in it. We are not alone."
Also assisting with the "Roswell UFO Walking Tours" will be the book's photographer, E. J. Wilson, a Roswell-area resident and a former employee of the Roswell UFO Museum. Wilson took over 100 photographs for the book of the major UFO landmarks still existing in Roswell. "I think the tours will be fantastic," WIlson said. "It's a way to make history come alive, and we'll have some really interesting stories to tell."
The "Roswell UFO Walking Tour" will begin with a short orientation to be held at 7 p.m. each evening (July 2 and 3) in the multipurpose room of the Campus Union Building of Eastern New Mexico University at Roswell, located at 48 University Boulevard. Admission to the tours will be $25 per person, with a $5 discount to everyone who stops by the authors' table at the Roswell UFO Museum, July 2-4. More information about the tours can be found at RoswellTours.com.
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