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Cannibalism #14 The Heart

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast

History, Society & Culture, True-crime, London, English, Uk, British, Murder, True Crime, Killer, Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

WARNING: this is not a regular episode, and contains facts/stories which some may find distressing.


This is Part 14 of 28 of Cannibalism, a new podcast series by Murder Mile UK True Crime, which rolls out every day for four weeks.


It features facts about Robert Maudsley, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nilsen, Anthony Morely, UAF Flight 571, Peter Bryan, Armin Meiwes, Vince Li, David Harker, Özgür Dengiz the Cannibal of Ankara, Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Psycho, Issei Sagawa the Kobe Cannibal, Dmitry & Natalia Malyshev the Krasnodar cannibals, Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, Rudy Eugene, Katherine Knight, Antron "Big Lurch" Singleton, Klára Mauerová, Rick Gibson, Omaima Nelson, Stephen Griffiths the 'Crossbow Cannibal', Matthew Williams, Ted Bundy, Sawney Bean, Andrei Chikatilo, Austin Harrouff, Ronald Poppo, Tim McLean, Matej Curko, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Richard Chase the 'Sacremento Vampire', Nikolai Dzumagaliev, Alexander Spesivtsev, to name but a few. As well as a wealth of facts about dead bodies, death, meat, organs and ancient tribes.

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0:00.0

Cannabis.

0:03.0

Could you eat a whole human being?

0:07.0

With the help of a doctor, a scientist and a chef,

0:10.0

I set out to see if it's possible.

0:12.0

Cannibalism. I set out to see if it's possible.

0:18.0

Cannibalism Part 14 The Heart

0:28.0

Of all the organs in our body, the heart is the one that the cannibal is most likely to devour. But why?

0:32.0

2014 Jefferson, Indiana.

0:36.0

Joseph Abbe Hanley, who had recently been released from prison for the shooting of his mother

0:41.0

and the murder of his ex-lover, broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend Tammy

0:45.7

Joe Blanton.

0:47.4

He stabbed her, brutally raped her and dismembered her body using power tools.

0:53.7

Having opened her chest with an electrical saw, he removed a heart and ate it, having cooked

0:59.9

it on a skillet. As far back as the ancient Greeks, philosophers like Plato and Aristotle

1:08.6

saw the heart as our main organ, a brain which controlled our emotions.

1:14.0

And although with a greater knowledge of chemicals,

1:17.0

science has relegated it to being little more than a blood pump,

1:21.0

we still associate the heart with life and love.

1:26.0

Said to be the size of a fist.

1:28.0

Its role is to keep oxygen-rich blood pumping throughout the body.

1:32.0

Situated between the lungs and to the left of

1:36.2

the sternum, the heart is the first organ to develop with it beating just 35 days after the fetus's gestation and when we die it's the last organ to fail.

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