Torilena Fields, 32, of Mount Olivet, was busted Wednesday after cops found body parts in a mattress in her backyard and in a pot that was "warm to the touch" in her kitchen oven, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported, citing authorities.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/12/us-news/kentucky-spell-casting-woman-torilena-fields-arrested-for-dismembering-cooking-body/

This is a case of cannibalism, and we found it worth it to be of the rarest of rare category wherein the appellant not only killed his mother but removed her organs like brain, heart, liver, ribs, etc., and was about to cook the same on a stove.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/bombay-high-court-upholds-penalty-of-a-man-convicted-in-murdering-his-mother-and-later-eating-her-organs/article68706727.ece

Latunski lured Bacon to his Bennington Township home in December where he then stabbed the victim in the back and removed parts of body before eating them, according to the outlet. He reportedly told cops he even cut off and ate Bacon's testicles.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/mark-latunski-guilty-of-murdering-man-named-kevin-bacon/

QuoteThey built a fire pit and burned her remains for 10 hours. At one point, Brown later testified, Kehoe took some of Larner's cook flesh from the fire.

"He put it on a piece of bread with some mustard and ate it," Brown testified. "Just for the experience. Just to know."

The two then drove back south, spreading Larner's ashes along the roadside and highways.

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/11/02/rose-larner/814806001/

QuoteThere's actually a very limited scenario where cannibalism actually makes some sort of sense, the study concludes: when other food is very scarce, when the cannibalized humans are dead (so there's no energy expended in hunting), when the meat can be cooked for safety, and when you're not consuming people who were themselves cannibals.

As cannibal 'chains' build up – so someone eats the flesh of someone else who was also a cannibal – so do the dangers of pathogens spreading. A community that relies on cannibalism gets killed off pretty quickly.

The researchers even point to a real-world example: the Fore people of Papua New Guinea were extensively hit by a fatal brain disease called kuru, which only faded when the community gave up the practice of eating their dead as part of the rituals at funerals.

Kuru is a prion disease, spread by misfolded proteins that aren't eliminated through cooking like other pathogens can be.

https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing