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Jamestown cannibalism expert has worked here before
Famed Smithsonian Institution forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley, whose study of cannibalism and Native American scalping rituals made him indispensable to confirming the first physical evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown last week, has contributed...
Tags: Historic Jamestowne, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Smithsonian Institution, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Hampton Roads
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Cannibalism at Jamestown evidence unearthed
Archaeologists and forensic scientists working with human remains recovered at Historic Jamestowne last summer reported Wednesday that their follow-up studies have turned up the gruesome first physical evidence of the cannibalism that took place during...
Tags: Science and Technology, Culture, Historic Jamestowne, Museum of Natural History, Arts and Culture
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Cannibalism claim adds charge to stabbing suspect in Winchester
The suspect in the stabbing of a Winchester woman is facing new charges after he claimed to be a cannibal and threatened to eat a Winchester Police officer. Police spent most of Wednesday morning searching for 25-year-old Brandon Hocker after he...
Tags: Police Arrests
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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...
Tags: Science and Technology, Culture, Dismemberment, Historic Jamestowne, Museum of Natural History
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Stabbing suspect arrested in Winchester
Police arrested the suspect in Tuesday night's stabbing as he walked along Belmont Avenue this afternoon. Brandon Hocker, 25 of 221 College St., is now facing second-degree assault charges along with terroristic threatening for allegedly saying he was a...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Police Arrests
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Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible
Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Tags: Health, Criminal Laws, Morgan State University, Murder, Defendants
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Warrant: Texas suspect interested in cannibalism
HOUSTON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a Houston-area college told investigators that he had fantasized about cannibalism and necrophilia and about cutting off people's faces and wearing them as masks, according to a...
Tags: Murder, Prisons, Colleges and Universities
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Television review: 'Hannibal' drains the mirth out of Lecter
NBC sent out five episodes of its "Silence of the Lambs" prequel "Hannibal," and although the reasons to stop watching (when in doubt, impale a woman!) too often outweighed the reasons to continue (Hugh Dancy, tracked by a dangerous dream deer), I...
Tags: Literature, Hugh Dancy, Murder, Caroline Dhavernas, Bones (tv program)
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Review: 'Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth' is a knockout
If there was one ring in the world that I, a weakling theater critic, knew I could knock Mike Tyson out in, it was the Pantages Theatre, where "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" played this past weekend. Tyson might have 100 pounds more muscle on him than I...
Tags: Human Interest, Mike Tyson, World War II (1939-1945), Boxing, Robin Givens
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Mike Tyson says the 'Undisputed Truth' is he's changed
LAS VEGAS — Spend a sunny afternoon at home with Mike Tyson and if the erstwhile Baddest Man on the Planet is in an expansive mood, he may indulge his cherished pastime: letting loose the performing pigeons he raises in his backyard to flap and...
Tags: Entertainment, Boxing, Animal Planet (tv network), Human Interest, Services and Shopping
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Morgan State student sues over baseball bat attack
A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges in a recently filed lawsuit that the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence. Joshua Ceasar of New Jersey...
Tags: Virginia Tech, Education, Morgan State University, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, Colleges and Universities
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Female classmates say they felt safe with accused 'Cannibal Cop'
Former female classmates of the man accused of wanting to kidnap and then eat women testified on Tuesday that they never felt threatened by the one-time New York City police officer. The trial of Gilberto Valle, 28, dubbed by the New York media as the...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Purim, New York City, Kidnapping
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Feb 28, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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