A word of warning. If you're easily offended by cannibalism, death, torture and fascinating facts about the human body,

this series may not be for you. Therefore, listener discretion is advised. Cannibalism.

Could you eat a whole human being?

With the help of a doctor, a scientist and a chef, I set out to see if it's possible.

Cannibalism, Part 27, Storage.

If a cannibal plans to eat a whole human being, given how long it would take and how each body part needs to be prepared differently to ensure that it's safe to eat.

Surely their first thought should be how to store it.

1987 Philadelphia

Gary Heydnick, the inspiration for Buffalo Bill in the Silence of the Lambs,

kidnapped his second victim, Sandra Lindsay,

holding a captive in a self-dugg basement pit, she died of starvation, torture and fever.

Having dismembered her, he said he ate her ribs, boiled ahead, and having frozen her limbs,

which he labeled as dog food, it is claimed that he fed it to his dogs, as well as his other victims.

Few cannibals or serial killers are experienced butchers or chefs.

Except Dennis Nielsen, Stephen Port, the grinder killer, and Carl Grossman, the butcher of Berlin, to name

but a few.

So how likely are the others to know how fast the edible parts of our body will go off, when putrefaction sets in and what it smells like.

With the average home freezer being 100 liters, big enough to fit Steve at average UK male.

The first option for preserving the human body is the mortuary bag.

Technically known as Cadaver Pouches, they're made from a 7mm non-porous mix of

vinyl and polyethylene with a reinforced heat seal. They're designed to prevent leaks to act as an airtight barrier and a limited

temperature control to delay decomposition.

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