Till Death Us Do Part by Paul B. Kidd

Author:Paul B. Kidd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-fiction, true crime, Australia, New Zealand, Michelle Burgess, the Pyjama Girl, Kathleen Folbigg, Andrew Kalajzich, Katherine Knight, Ziggy Pohl, Dr Rory Thompson, murder, marriages that end in murder, death, killings, child-killing, wife killers, Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
ISBN: 9781743004579
Publisher: Five Mile Press
Published: 2011-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

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The Black Widow

Female black widow spiders are shiny black when fully grown. Since the females commonly eat their partner after mating they often are widows.

It is debatable whether or not the murder of John Price included cannibalism. What is for certain is that what his spouse did with his corpse is a horror story of Gothic proportions unprecedented in Australia, and probably the world. In an attempt to draw any sort of comparison to this extraordinary crime we must first take a look at some atrocities of a similar nature throughout history.

In Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, after having sex with decomposing cadavers and skinning them, Ed Gein ate the body parts. When local police eventually caught up with the mild-mannered hillbilly on his farm, they found the headless body of a woman hanging from the rafters. It had been gutted and dressed like a deer. A human heart was sizzling away in the frying pan in preparation for lunch. The refrigerator was stocked with body parts neatly wrapped in newspaper. Investigators also found lampshades and facemasks made out of human skin, a soup dish made from a hollowed-out human skull and a belt made of nipples and human skin slippers.

Ed confessed that he liked dancing around in the farmyard by the light of the moon with a real women’s torso, tanned like shoe leather and oiled to keep it supple, strapped around his middle. Needless to say, farmer Ed was locked away in the rubber room at the state mental facility until he died in 1984.

In Philadelphia, USA, in 1986, 42-year-old army pensioner Gary Heidnik kidnapped women and kept them chained up in his cellar as sex slaves, eventually murdering some of them and eating their remains. Heidnik kept as many as five women in his cellar at a time until one escaped and called the cops. What police found in Heidnik’s cellar defies imagination. Four young women, who had been repeatedly tortured, raped and beaten, sat chained in filth and squalor in the dungeon. There was a young woman’s head stewing in a pot on the kitchen stove and human ribs in a roasting dish that was presumably going to be their – and Gary’s – dinner.

But long before Ed Gein and Gary Heidnik shocked the world with their culinary preferences, people had been murdering, violating the corpses and eating each other. Back in 1570, an evil bit of work named Peter Stump roamed the German countryside, faithfully aided and abetted by his mistress and daughter, in search of young women to tear to shreds to satisfy his bloodlust for human flesh. Stump had also eaten a freshly born baby that was the result of his incestuous relationship with his daughter. Urged on by the two women, in five years Stump murdered 15 women and children and ravenously ate their hearts while they were hot, along with other body parts.

When caught, the law’s retribution for the evil trio was almost as barbaric as their crimes. Stump’s body was tied to a cart wheel and the flesh was pulled from his bones with red hot pincers.

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