Yikes: Peruvian Jungle Gang Arrested for Selling Fat of Its Murder Victims
Is there any medical use for black market human fat? Scientists are skeptical Plentiful fat seems more reviled than revered in today's society, even when it has uses for the medical and cosmetic industries. But today police announced the arrest of a Peruvian gang accused of murdering people and selling their fat to the cosmetics industry, according to The Associated Press. Three gang members have confessed to killing at least five people and draining their fat in a fairly grisly manner: by removing the head, arms, legs and organs, then suspending the bodies above candles to allow the fat to drip down into tubs--not the most high-tech or careful extraction method, to be sure. Police caught the gang with several bottles of liquid fat supposedly priced on the black market at $60,000 a gallon. The gang has earned the name of "Pishtacos" from police, based on a Peruvian myth about pre-Columbian men who...