The thought of cannibalism is so revolting, many of us think
that it's a subject confined to horror films and the annals of
ancient history. But five recent flesh-crawling stories sadly
remind us that this unthinkable act is still a part of
contemporary society. In late May, Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot and
killed by Miami-Dade police after he reportedly refused to stop
eating another man's face in Miami. A few days later, Alexander
Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student,
reportedly admitted to killing his roommate, Kujoe Bonsafo
Agyei-Kodie, and then eating his heart and portions of his
brain. These and other equally gruesome stories have some people
thinking about notorious figures from history, including Alfred
Packer, a Colorado man charged with killing and eating the
remains of five men in 1874. The men were all part of a mining
party caught in the snow, but at the time, Packer admitted to
eating the bodies to avoid starvation. He claimed another
traveler hacked his companions to death with a