Tyler, TX: Makes you just wanna eat somebody

It’s times like this that I hate to say I’m from Tyler, TX. What kind of times am I talking about? Well, mainly just when we make national news.
Whenever Tyler makes national news, its rarely for anything worth celebrating. For instance, a few years ago a mother bludgeoned her child. That was a national news event. More recently, a man opened fire in front of the county court house on the square in downtown Tyler with some sort of heavy machine gun and killed a few people over a custody battle. Another national news event.
But this headline takes the cake: “Man kills, cooks and possibly eats girlfriend, police say.” That was a CNN headline from yesterday. Apparently, Mr. Christopher McCuin saw fit to kill his girlfriend then cook parts of her body before doing the responsible thing and calling the cops.

According to the original article, “When authorities arrived at the home, they found [the girlfriend's] mutilated body, one ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a fork sticking out of some human flesh sitting on a plate on the kitchen table.” Of course, the police cannot prove that McCuin actually ate the parts he cooked.

You can find the original article at http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/06/texas.slaying.ap/index.html