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Welcome the Monday's Morbid Minute.

This is your quick rundown of the week's most fascinating stories involving death, disease,

medicine, and injury, making headlines and rippling through the pop culture.

We'll tease the cases here, then do a deep dive

into the pathology, forensics, and medical mysteries later in our normal mother-nose-death

episodes, in articles over in the grocery room, and during our weekly YouTube live bonus

episode exclusively for grocery members. If it's dark, disturbing, medically

bizarre, or just too good not to dissect, you'll hear it first on Monday's morbid minute.

In true crime and court cases, Princeton cannibal killer found dead in jail.

First up, an update in one of the most disturbing cases out of New Jersey.

Matthew Hurtkin, the former college soccer player who killed his younger brother Joseph in a Princeton apartment,

was found dead in the Mercer County Jail on May 8th. Authorities described it as an apparent suicide,

but his official cause of death is still pending autopsy. This case was horrific, if you remember.

Prosecutors say that Joseph was beaten and stabbed. His eyeball was removed, and Matthew was accused of eating it. The family cat was also killed. Earlier this year, a judge ruled Matthew was legally insane and not criminally responsible after testimony about severe

psychosis, religious delusions, and apocalyptic visions. Girls' death after alleged bullying

ruled natural by the medical examiner. Next, we have an update on a heartbreaking skull bullying case out of Los Angeles.

Twelve-year-old Kimberly Chukipa died after she was allegedly hit in the head with a metal

water bottle during a bullying incident. Her family believed that the trauma led to her death,

but the medical examiner ruled her death natural, saying she died from a spontaneously ruptured cerebellar arteria venous malformation

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