Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment.
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.
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there are some crazy crazy people out there !!!!!!!!!
I had a pishtaco once. I’ve since learned to complain about the service after receiving the food.
Pishtacos… aren’t they nuts anyway?
Not much manages to surprise me anymore.
Confuse and disgust yes… but surprise… no.
Practices as notorious as this have been around probably for as long as people have. They used to grave-rob and even kill people in order to sell the bodies to ‘doctors’ in the name of medical research.
Well, not these specific people, but y’know.
Pax, amor et concordia.
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Reminds me of Fight Club… human fat for soap… eugh.
I suppose we do have more fat than chickens, which is what is usually used, so this story makes sense.
Aw poor people! I also feel sorry for those people that are walking around with human fat smeared over their faces!
O_o Bleurgh. So very weird, and yet rather unsurprising. The human race seems to have no limit to how low it can sink. What kind of a mind even creates this concept? *sigh*
omg that is just discusting what kind of sick people would do such a think thats horried
Something tells me this gang watched Fight Club one too many times!
I laughed.
There’s a market for everything.
I read the fat was sold to be used in cosmetics…..scaryyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, that’s a damned load of money…
@ Jaykay:
Are you now thinking:
6 months of cake, 2 hours of lipo (keep the contents) and setting up a market stall for a profit?
Hope you, your family and friends are all well
Pax, amor et concordia.
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I can’t help thinking there would be a serious marketing challenge at the heart of their scheme.
- Aw c’mon mike – would be great. Finally a look to die for! – Phillis
Organs .. fat … I’m sure there is a huge market for it ( well, there is ofcourse, organ wise .. stem cell science in this area is not all without possible use). Tampering with waiting lists for organs is probably quite realistic nowadays as well. Money/status …
So it is highly important to stay aa skinny as possible in the area where this gang hoovers around … if that is the case. Rumours tend to spread fast.
Should do this in the states, you’d easily be making millions a week!