News from California today about a mother and son team who cremated their mother/grandmother this past December in a homemade barbecue pit.Afterward, they continued to cash her retirement checks, eventually collecting approximately $25,000. Both were arrested and are in custody.
Additional reports say the daughter, 50-year-old Kathleen Allmond of Tehama County, California, constructed a necklace from parts of her mother's skull.
In related news, as part of the research I'm doing for a novel, I interviewed a funeral director earlier this week. During our conversation he confessed that ever since entering this line of work, he's been unable to eat ribs.
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My pathologist friend says that salivation during an autopsy is normal.
The Hawaiians had a name for scrumptious Homo Sapiens barbeque. They called it "Long Pig." I love that.
And, supposedly, we don't taste like chicken at all. More like pork.
I don't know how I got onto cannibalism this morning. Haven't had breakfast yet.
African cannibalistic tribes used to call missionaries "Long Pig" as well. Good use for them, I think.
Long pig... I couldn't help but be reminded of that very thing while reading Stephen King's "Lisey's Story," because throughout the book he refers to the "Long Boy."
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