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Peruvian Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat (pre-Columbian savagery coming to the US)

November 22nd, 2009 by The Guardian UK Filed under Featured, Feeds, Free Republic, Politics.[1 views]
A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend. Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said. Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in Huánuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks. The gang have been nicknamed the Pishtacos after...

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