Fat slob jobless parent-basher bob sim keng hwee better not go to Peru. Gang is killing ppl for their fat. Fat slob bob sim keng hwee will surely be their target. :p
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Nov 20, 2009
Gang killed for fat
Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
LIMA (Peru) - A GANG in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged on Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.
Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police.
He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth US$60,000 (S$83,382) a gallon.
Col. Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales.
Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. Yale University dermatology professor Dr. Lisa Donofrio speculated that a small market may exist for 'human fat extracts' to keep skin supple, though scientifically such treatments are 'pure baloney.'
At a news conference, police showed reporters two bottles of fat recovered from the suspects and a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim. Suspect Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29, led police to the head, recovered in a coca-growing valley last month, Col. Mejia said, adding that Castillejos confessed that the gang would cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, remove the organs, then suspend the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. -- AP
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Nov 20, 2009
Gang killed for fat
Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
LIMA (Peru) - A GANG in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged on Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.
Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police.
He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth US$60,000 (S$83,382) a gallon.
Col. Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales.
Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. Yale University dermatology professor Dr. Lisa Donofrio speculated that a small market may exist for 'human fat extracts' to keep skin supple, though scientifically such treatments are 'pure baloney.'
At a news conference, police showed reporters two bottles of fat recovered from the suspects and a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim. Suspect Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29, led police to the head, recovered in a coca-growing valley last month, Col. Mejia said, adding that Castillejos confessed that the gang would cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, remove the organs, then suspend the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. -- AP
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