Cannibalism Suspect: ‘God Told Me to Do It’

“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.”

Sheriff officials say the man accused of murdering his girlfriend, mutilating her body and possibly participating in cannibalism is telling investigators that “God told me to do it.”

Smith County Sheriff Lt. Larry Wiginton told the Tyler Paper this morning that Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, is now saying he was instructed by God to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2865 over the weekend and then mutilate her body and cook parts of her flesh…

Sheriff J. B. Smith told the newspaper on Sunday that 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.

Officials said that McCuin killed the woman by beating her in the head with a blunt object after abducting her from her Whitehouse apartment, put her body in the back seat of his extended cab pickup, drove to his estranged wife’s home where he stabbed her boyfriend multiple times, ran from police, broke into a Tyler business and then finally went to his mother’s home where he asked her to come look what he had done…Wiginton said investigators are still working the case and that they need help in locating where the actual murder took place.

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2008-01-10