Daily Lessons from Life 25 May 2012 - Man makes meat of 20 teens

"Man makes meat of 20 teens - AFP May 25, 2012

BEIJING - Police in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers, reports said Friday.

Zhang Yongming, 56, was detained two weeks ago in Nanmen village in Yunnan province and is being investigated over the murder of a 19-year-old man in late April, the Guangxi News website reported.


Police searching Zhang's home found the young man's cellphone, bank card and other evidence, according to the website, which said more than a dozen other teenagers had gone missing from the village over the years.

It said Zhang had previously served almost 20 years in jail for murder.


Zhang was known in the village as the "cannibal monster," the site reported, quoting residents as saying they had seen green plastic bags hanging from his home, with what appeared to be white bones protruding from the top.

Local police declined comment when contacted by AFP Friday, saying information would be made available "at an appropriate time", and other reports on the gruesome case appeared to have been removed from Chinese websites.


But Hong Kong newspaper The Standard said Friday that police entering Zhang's home discovered human eyeballs preserved inside wine bottles and pieces of what appeared to be human flesh hanging in the house to dry.

Beijing has dispatched a team of experts to Yunnan to supervise the investigation into the missing teenagers and two local police chiefs have been dismissed from their positions, the official Xinhua news agency said."

It is a horrible crime for sure. Cannibalism in this day and age!

Lessons for me are:

1. anything is possible in this world;

2. yet we need to continue living in this world believing that such cases are definitely the exception than the rule. It must not stops us from not trusting anyone and everyone!;

3. will this case be solved as quickly as everyone will be interested to learn what could have triggered this monster, assuming he is guilty as charged, to kill, skin and sell their flash as 'meat'! Is it a mental case? If so, is it genetic or circumstantial? Will there another one waiting to be 'triggered'?

Welcome to the mad mad world that we STILL have to live in...