Christopher Lee McCuin

Warning: This story is true. This isn't a grizzly horror movie.

TYLER, Texas -- A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday.

Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called 911 on Saturday and told an emergency dispatcher he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body parts at his mother's home, said Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith.

When authorities arrived at the home, they found Shearer'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.

Authorities said it was unclear whether McCuin consumed any part of Shearer's body.

"We cannot prove that he did," Smith told The Associated Press. "He was either going to, had been or led us to think that he was doing it."

Authorities believe Shearer, 21, was abducted from her home Friday night and killed. Her death and mutilation was apparently the beginning of a crime spree that also included McCuin allegedly stabbing the boyfriend of his estranged wife and breaking into a business. The stabbing victim is in critical condition at an area hospital, officials said.

...Before he called 911, McCuin told his mother and her boyfriend to look in their garage, authorities said. There the couple saw the remains of Shearer. McCuin's mother and her boyfriend fled the home and flagged down a police officer. McCuin dialed authorities after they left.

...Shearer appeared to have died from blunt trauma to her head, Smith said. She may have been kidnapped Friday night, when her mother witnessed her get into McCuin's truck.

"There was no struggle but she could see the girl left with no shoes, no purse and no cell phone," Smith said.

McCuin then drove to his estranged wife's home, where he stabbed William Veasley, 42, Smith said. McCuin was still in that home when deputies arrived, but escaped in his car after a short chase, Smith said.

...McCuin wasn't seen again until Saturday morning, when he arrived at his mother's home and called her into the garage so she could "come see what he had done," Smith said.

This is so gruesome.

There are shades of Jeffrey Dahmer in McCuin's behavior, except Dahmer didn't subject his mom to his crimes.

This sort of savagery is so hard to comprehend.

Is McCuin sick or is he evil?

I don't know. I think he does want to be remembered and achieve that weird immortality that comes with committing a horrific crime.
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PETA Urges Texas Prison Officials to Provide Vegetarian Meals to Suspected Cannibal

PETA has dispatched a letter to Smith County Jail warden Capt. Gary Pinkerton urging him to provide accused murderer Christopher Lee McCuin with only vegetarian meals to prevent him from "being involved in any senseless killing" while in prison. McCuin is accused of killing his girlfriend, dismembering her, and cooking and possibly consuming her body parts.

PETA points out that the same violent acts that McCuin stands accused of are carried out against more than 10 billion farmed animals in the U.S. every year. Stressing the link between cruelty to animals and other violent crimes, PETA asserts that vegetarian meals promote nonviolence--in addition to being healthy, cost-efficient, and easy to prepare.

Says PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich, "If people are revolted by the idea of eating a human corpse, they should also lose their appetites at the thought of eating the flesh of other tortured victims."

Right.

"[T]he same violent acts that McCuin stands accused of are carried out against more than 10 billion farmed animals in the U.S. every year."

That is idiotic.

It diminishes the death of Jana Shearer to equate her life with those of animals.

I think it's really disgraceful that PETA is exploiting Jana Shearer to advance its agenda.

Here's PETA's utterly lame letter to Capt. Pinkerton:

January 10, 2008


Capt. Gary Pinkerton, Jail Administrator
Smith County Jail


Dear Capt. Pinkerton:

On behalf of PETA and our more than 1.8 million members and supporters, I am writing to ask that you prevent Christopher Lee McCuin from being involved in any senseless killing while in your prison by providing him with exclusively vegetarian meals.

As you know, McCuin allegedly killed his girlfriend, cut up and boiled parts of her body, and may have consumed parts of her corpse. Tragically, every day in homes and restaurants across the U.S., humans cut up, cook, and devour the corpses of chickens, pigs, fish, and cows. Only in a culture where people routinely kill and eat living, feeling beings would anyone even think to kill and eat a human loved one.

Like humans, animals are made of flesh, blood, and bone. They have the same five senses that we do, and they have the same capacity to experience suffering and fear. And all animals share the desire to live their lives free of pain and to avoid a violent death.

It is up to you to prevent McCuin from contributing to any more suffering and death by placing him on a healthy, humane vegetarian diet.

Please visit the Web site GoVeg.com to see video footage that depicts the cruelty of factory farming and to obtain vegetarian recipes. Vegetarian meals are healthy, cost-efficient, and easy to prepare. They also promote nonviolence, which is something that every prison needs. We also would be happy to help you design meatless meal plans for McCuin--or even the entire prison.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you. I can be contacted at 757-622-7382 if you have any questions.


Sincerely,

Bruce Friedrich
Vice President