Alexander Kinyua Ate Kujoe Agyei-Kodie's Brain, Heart In Maryland, Cops Say

[Claire Diviner]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/alexander-kinyua-kujoe-agyei-kodie-ate-brain-heart-roommate-maryland_n_1560149.html

In yet another horrifying incident of human flesh-eating this week, a student in Maryland allegedly admitted to devouring his roommate's brain and heart.

Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student, admitted to murdering his roommate Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, who was reported missing last Friday, cops told the Baltimore Sun.

Kinyua's father called police late Tuesday night when Kinyua's brother reportedly found human remains -- a head and two hands -- in a metal tin in the basement. The brother and father left the room for a short time, but when they came back, the body parts had been moved and Kinyua was washing out the tin, the paper reported.

Officers searched the house and arrested Kinyua. The man allegedly confessed a shocking revelation: not only had he killed Agyei-Kodie by cutting him up with a knife and then dismembered him, he ingested parts of the victim's brain and all of his heart. He then allegedly dropped most of the remains in a Dumpster behind a church in Joppatowne.

It's yet unclear what Kinyua's motive may have been, but he was charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday. In another incident on May 20, he was charged with first-degree assault when he allegedly beat a fellow student randomly with a baseball bat and then fled into the woods.


The gruesome case comes on the heels of a similar attack in Miami on Saturday, in which Rudy Eugene, 31, was killed by cops while in the process of chewing off most of a homeless man's face.

Ronald Poppo, 65, is alive, but the bizarre flesh-eating attack left doctors with a literal puzzle in how to put his face back together.

Seriously, what's with the sudden rise in cannibalism?

 

[MattDotZeb]

Isn't it just a rise in media attention to cannibalism?

 

[Claire Diviner]

Isn't it just a rise in media attention to cannibalism?

That could be it, what with the high profile story of that guy eating the homeless man's face in Florida. For all we know, stories like this happen all the time, and never got the media coverage it probably should have. Who knows?

 

[Master Xanthan]

Lock the guy up and NEVER let him out or capital punishment.

 

[Luigitoilet]

I think this guy should be studied and psychologically tested extensively. I don't have a hard-on for punishment so I think studying and dissecting this guy's psyche is far more beneficial to society/humanity than "put him in a hole for the rest of his life or kill him.". I would love to talk to this guy and hear what he has to say about what was going through his head when he did such a thing.

It's another reason I'm kinda disappointed that the face-eater guy got killed. It would be endlessly fascinating to hear these gruesome and bizarre stories from the perpetrators themselves.

 

[Master Xanthan]

I think this guy should be studied and psychologically tested extensively. I don't have a hard-on for punishment so I think studying and dissecting this guy's psyche is far more beneficial to society/humanity than "put him in a hole for the rest of his life or kill him.". I would love to talk to this guy and hear what he has to say about what was going through his head when he did such a thing.

It's another reason I'm kinda disappointed that the face-eater guy got killed. It would be endlessly fascinating to hear these gruesome and bizarre stories from the perpetrators themselves.

Studying him is a good idea. Perhaps we can learn something about the warning signs of this kind of behavior. However, after he's studied, he should be locked up for life, that is what the punishment for murder is, plus he randomly assaulted another person as well.

 

[Claire Diviner]

I think this guy should be studied and psychologically tested extensively. I don't have a hard-on for punishment so I think studying and dissecting this guy's psyche is far more beneficial to society/humanity than "put him in a hole for the rest of his life or kill him.". I would love to talk to this guy and hear what he has to say about what was going through his head when he did such a thing.

It's another reason I'm kinda disappointed that the face-eater guy got killed. It would be endlessly fascinating to hear these gruesome and bizarre stories from the perpetrators themselves.

I do agree with this. It can also give us a better understanding and hopefully a better means to look for possible signs of the mentally unstable, but that's just wishful thinking on my part.

As for the face-eater, wasn't it established that he was high on some kind of substance (bath salts, in this case, was it?)? If that's the case, then maybe - just maybe - he wasn't a mentally insane man more so than he was just hallucinating to a hellish degree. Hell if I know though, as I've never taken, nor will I ever take bath salts (or any substance for that matter).

However, after he's studied, he should be locked up for life, that is what the punishment for murder is, plus he randomly assaulted another person as well.

My thoughts exactly, though I'm sure it's a given.

 

[Luigitoilet]

Toxicology reports take weeks to come in. Bath salts/drugs is just speculation. though, it's extremely likely he was on some drugs. still though, providing he even had a memory of the event (if he hadn't been killed) it would be interesting to hear what he was thinking, if he was.

 

[rinisan]

Disgusting cannibals...

 

[Luigitoilet]

Disgusting cannibals...

Actually, Rudy Eugene technically isn't a cannibal. There was no human flesh in his stomach in the autopsy. It appears he was simply ripping the guy's flesh off with his teeth and spitting it out.

but oops, I thought this was the naked Florida guy thread, not the guy who ate his roomates heart thread.

yeah, this guy's a cannibal.

 

[rinisan]

^ What the heck? Are you ok?

 

[Luigitoilet]

^ What the heck? Are you ok?

Why do you ask? I was simply explaining that being a cannibal must constitute consuming human flesh or organs. I got the threads mixed up. I thought I was posting in the thread about Rudy Eugene chewing that homeless guy's face off.

Since it has come to light that he didn't actually EAT any human flesh, he's not a cannibal. That's all I'm saying.

But I was mistaken, because I'm actually posting in the thread about a guy who actually IS a cannibal, because he actually consumed human organs.

Do you need further explanation?

 

[rinisan]

Who cares...

 

[Claire Diviner]

Who cares...

You clearly care enough if you're asking him.

 

[rinisan]

I ask the newspaper guy "How are you" every morning when he drops by

 

[Teran]

Disingenuous to the max right there.