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"Sure I eat people, anyone can eat human flesh,
but you have to wash and garnish it well to avoid diseases."
I've
spent a whole year waiting for a follow up to this guys
story, but obviously the western dominated press decided it
was no longer newsworthy, so we are all left wondering what
happened to Dorangel. Normally I wait for a killer to be
verified before putting him or her up on the site, but the
early reports on Dorangel were just too good not to put up.
Okay, so why am I so into him?
Well, in Venezuela, February, 1999, police arrested Dorangel
after finding human remains lying around his home. Almost
straight away Vargas started talking. He claimed that he had
cannibalised at least ten men from San Cristobal in the
previous two years.
As the police continued the search they keep on turning up
human skulls, and even stumbled onto some fresh entrails. I
guess you can probably see where my interest comes from now?
Bizarrely police allowed Dorangel to speak to local press
while he was in custody. To stunned local press he claimed
that he had a "predilection for human thighs and eyeball
soups."
And how do the press repay Dorangel?
They give him the pissy title of the "Hannibal Lecter of the
Andes". Christ people, show some imagination.
But the crappy nickname didn’t seem to stop Dorangel from
continuing to incriminate himself. "I only eat the parts
with muscles, particularly thighs and calves which are my
favourite ... I make a very tasty stew with the tongue and I
use the eyes to make a nutritious and healthy soup," he said
in one local newspaper interview.
He also said he rejected overweight men because they had too
much cholesterol, and the elderly were spared because their
flesh "is contaminated and very tough."
To add the pretty bizarre nature of his eating habits
Dorangel claims he was "given" the bodies by various people,
including the police. Local press have a different version
with reports claiming that he preyed on homeless men and
labourers whom he clubbed to death with a metal tube.
And of course it wouldn't be South America if some of the
locals didn't say that Vargas may be being used as a
scapegoat for a ring of human organ traffickers.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any more bizarre,
it came out that Vargas is a former mental hospital patient
who was arrested on similar charges four years ago but
released shortly afterward due to a lack of evidence.
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