Mexican Cops Arrest Cannibalism Suspect
Pastor Dale Morgan
Mexican Cops Arrest Cannibalism Suspect*
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 11, 2007; 7:21 PM
MEXICO CITY -- An aspiring horror novelist was arrested after police
discovered his girlfriend's torso in his closet, a leg in the
refrigerator and bones in a cereal box, the city prosecutor's spokesman
said Thursday, and police suspect he may have been responsible for two
other mutilation murders as well.
Jose Luis Calva told police he had boiled some of his girlfriend's flesh
but that he hadn't eaten it, the spokesman said, speaking on customary
condition of anonymity. He said investigators were trying to determine
if the chunks of fried meat found in a pan in the apartment were human.
The spokesman also confirmed other details about the crime scene
released by the prosecutor's office Wednesday night: that body parts
were spread throughout the apartment, and that Calva is being
investigated in a total of three killings of women whose mutilated
bodies had been found in and around the capital.
Calva told police he was a writer and poet _ officers found the draft of
a novel titled "Cannibalistic Instincts," the spokesman said.
Calva tried to escape when officers entered his apartment, but was
struck by a car and had not yet recovered enough to give a statement to
police, according to the prosecutors office. He was still hospitalized
on Thursday, the spokesman said.
Police had come to Calva's apartment Monday to investigate the
disappearance of his girlfriend, Alejandra Galeana, a 30-year-old
pharmacy clerk and single mother. Her family had reported her missing on
Friday and told police of her relationship with Calva, according to the
prosecutor's office.
Galeana's dismembered body was discovered in a closet; a leg and flesh
from an arm were in the refrigerator, and arm bones were inside a cereal
box, the prosecutor's office said.
Calva also is being investigated in the mutilation killings of an
unidentified prostitute in April and an ex-girlfriend, Veronica Martinez
_ also a single mother and pharmacy worker _ whose dismembered body was
found in 2004, the prosecutor's office said.
After his arrest was shown on television, Martinez's mother went to
police saying Calva had also been her boyfriend, and showed officers a
picture of them together. Her daughter's body was found chopped to
pieces on the city's outskirts, the prosecutor's office said.
Neighbor Fermin Cruz, 41, lived several floors below Calva, and said he
"seemed ill humored at times," adding, "one time he slammed the door on me."