Christopher Lee McCuin Cooked Parts of His Girlfriend, Jana Shearer
Another bizarre crime involving body parts and the potential for cannibalism occurred earlier this year in Tyler, Texas. Instead of finding a down-home outdoor Texas barbecue when sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call at a home in this East Texas municipality on Saturday, January 5, 2008, they made a gruesome gastronomic discovery that was cooking on the stovetop inside. According to the police, Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, killed his girlfriend, Jana Shearer, 21, cooked parts of her body on the stove inside his mother's home, and called 911 to inform them of what he had done. Deputies were aghast when they found human ears boiling in a pot, and a piece of flesh stuck to the end of a fork in a plate on the kitchen table. They also found the rest of the woman's body in another part of the home. Based on the information that McCuin provided to the authorities during the 911 call, investigators had reason to believe that he may have eaten—or at least attempted to eat—portions of Shearer's body. However, whether he had actually consumed parts of her body was not clear at the time, according to the authorities.
"We cannot prove that he did," said Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith. "He was either going to, had been, or led us to think that he was doing it."
McCuin, of course, was arrested on the spot. Although he had at first gone willingly with the arresting deputies, he had to be placed in additional restraints because he allegedly...
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