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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58140)	11/20/2009 8:43:40 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 217839

I hope it is a prank... abc.net.au You're right if they wanted fat it would be easy to go down the street and suck it out rather than kill someone for it. nuimage.ca

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58140)	11/21/2009 12:35:37 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 217839

Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment The Guardian, Friday 20 November 2009 The remains of victims that were allegedly kidnapped and killed by a criminal gang in the jungle of Peru for human fat trafficking. Photograph: National Police Of Peru/EPA A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend. Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said. Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in Huánuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks. Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police, said Cudeña and three other suspects were in custody and that another seven gang members were being hunted. The jailed men have confessed to killing five people, but police suspect the number of victims is far higher, with 60 people reported missing in Huánuco this year alone. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to £36,000 a gallon. At a news conference police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human. "The fat was extracted from the thorax and thighs," said Eusebio Felix Murga, chief of police of Dirincri district. Police also showed a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim discovered last month in a coca-growing valley. Police said they received a tip four months ago about a trade in human fat, which exported the amber liquid to Europe as anti-wrinkle cream. In addition to the alleged ringleader the suspects were named as Segundo Castillejos Agüero, Marcos Veramendi Princípe and Enadina Estela Claudio. They have been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, illegal firearms possession and drug trafficking. The alleged plot has evoked comparisons to Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume in which a killer distills the essence of his victims into a jar. Others compare it to the film Fight Club in which a character played by Brad Pitt steals bags of human fat from a liposuction clinic to make soap. The gang have been nicknamed the Pishtacos after the ruthless assassins of indigenous Quechua legend who ambushed solitary victims and drained their fat as an offering to gods to make the land fertile. Another version depicts them as cannibal bandits who ate the skin and sold the fat. The stories date back to before the European conquest. The suspects allegedly would sever victims' heads, arms and legs, remove organs and suspend torsos from hooks above candles, which warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. Members claimed other gangs were engaged in similar killings. Medical experts said human fat had cosmetic applications to keep skin supple, but were sceptical about an international black market. "It doesn't make any sense, because in most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from people who are willing to donate," Adam Katz, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia medical school, told the Associated Press. Peruvians expressed shock that grisly Andean legends they heard from their grandparents could turn out to have a modern twist. "It's really incredible that killers like this could exist today," said one contributor to the newspaper Peru21. guardian.co.uk

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (58140)	12/4/2009 11:41:09 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217839

Peruvian Human Fat Vampire Killers a Hoax (ChattahBox)—Last month an ancient Peruvian myth of a white vampire-like bogeyman, called a Pishtaco exploded from the realm of fantasy into reality, when four people were arrested for murdering dozens of people, draining their body fat and then selling it to cosmetic companies for miracle anti-aging creams. The bizarre murders sure made for a gruesome tale, which captured the attention of the international press for several weeks. The Peruvian police, obtained a taped “confession” from one of the fat killers and they even convened a campy and macabre press conference, displaying two coke bottles supposedly filled with human fat said, to be worth worth thousands of dollars on the black market. But, it apparently was all a hoax perpetrated by police officers to cover up the illegal killings of nearly 50 criminal suspects. The Peruvian police officers involved in fabricating the elaborate hoax only had to peruse a few history books to discover details about the Pishtaco, a folklore figure who murders Peruvians on lonely roads and often steals their precious body fat. Plumpness and excess body fat is prized in the Andes, as a symbol of good health. And Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, wrote a book featuring the legend of the Pishtacos in 1996, entitled “Death in the Andes,” that no doubt also provided inspiration for the made-up tale of deranged vampire-like fat killers on the loose in Peru. Vargas Llosa noted in his book that Pishtacos are ghoul-like creatures who lurk in isolated caves and suck the fat out of people. Andean myths say that the fat is used to make soaps and cosmetic lotions. So, the police officers in question who were anxious to cover up dozens of murders, invoked the myth of a creepy mythical vampire who had a taste for human fat. And the police officers were quite descriptive. They told reporters that the victims were targeted on remote roads and lured with the promise of a job to a hut in the jungle. The victims were then bludgeoned to death and their heads, arms and legs were cut off, according to the police. Their internal organs were discarded and then candles were placed underneath the bodies to melt the fat, which dripped into containers, presumably plastic coke bottles. Many questioned the story from the beginning, because there is no market for human body fat. And the organs would be worth millions on the black market, but they were discarded according to the police. Now, Peru’s police chief has fired General Felix Murga, who apparently engineered the arrests of the four alleged fat killers and taped the fake confession last month. The police chief now believes that only one of the arrested fat killers is guilty of murder. And that the killing is linked to the cocaine trade. The fat in the coke bottles may have been used as a stunt to intimidate rivals in the drug trade. chattahbox.com