Fat-for-cosmetics gang under arrest
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November 21, 2009, Saturday
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A GANG in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, according to police.
Three suspects confessed to killing five people, but the gang may have been involved in dozens more cases, said police chief Colonel Jorge Mejia. Mejia said two of the suspects were arrested carrying bottles of liquid human fat and told police it was worth US$15,000 a liter.
The fat was sold to intermediaries in Peru's capital, Lima, and police suspect it was then sold to cosmetic companies in Europe.
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. Mejia said Castillejos recounted how the gang cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, removed the organs, then suspended the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as fat dripped into tubs below.
Three suspects confessed to killing five people, but the gang may have been involved in dozens more cases, said police chief Colonel Jorge Mejia. Mejia said two of the suspects were arrested carrying bottles of liquid human fat and told police it was worth US$15,000 a liter.
The fat was sold to intermediaries in Peru's capital, Lima, and police suspect it was then sold to cosmetic companies in Europe.
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. Mejia said Castillejos recounted how the gang cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, removed the organs, then suspended the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as fat dripped into tubs below.
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