Cannibalism Suspected in Woman’s Murder

“He led the dispatcher to believe he may have been eating flesh, but we are not sure at this time. Her body is lacerated, with chunks cut out of her face and upper torso area.”

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Smith County Sheriff’s officials released new details Sunday in the grisly murder of a Whitehouse http://www.wvwnews.net/printer.php?id=2841 that include mutilation of her body and possible cannibalism.

Sheriff J.B. Smith told the Tyler Morning Telegraph that 25-year-old Christopher Lee McCuin sits in his solitary jail cell with a nonchalant attitude expressing no remorse for the “horrible acts” he is accused of carrying out against Jana Shearer, 21.

Smith said investigators found Shearer’s body with chunks of flesh cut out, one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a plate of human flesh with a fork on the kitchen table in the brick home at 423 Princess Place in Tyler.

“I’m never shocked anymore, but I am surprised that human beings can actually do this kind of stuff to each other,” the longtime sheriff said. “You ask yourself how anyone could do anything like this to someone else. I just don’t have an answer.”McCuin remains in the Smith County jail on capital murder charges and a $2 million bond.

Sheriff’s officials say McCuin went to Shearer’s home in Whitehouse and the two talked, but no one saw her alive again.

…At 9:58 a.m. McCuin called the Smith County 911 dispatcher and in a “matter of fact” way said he had killed his girlfriend and was boiling parts of her.

“He led the dispatcher to believe he may have been eating flesh, but we are not sure at this time,” Smith said. “Her body is lacerated, with chunks cut out of her face and upper torso area.”

He added the district attorney has put a hold on the 911 tapes, labeling it as a crucial piece of evidence.

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2008-01-07