A suspected cannibal has been arrested after he ‘killed a married couple’ before ‘boiling their heads’ in his kitchen.
The 64-year-old man told Russian investigators that he dismembered the bodies using a saw, having been
inspired by macabre movies.
He boiled their severed heads on a gas cooker before flushing body parts down the toilet – causing a blockage in the Soviet-era apartment block’s sewer system.
Plumbers investigating the blockage in the building in St Petersburg made the gruesome discovery.
They alerted police, who managed to trace the crime to a communal flat where the man confessed to killing the couple he shared the apartment with.
He told the officers that his housemates were ‘alcoholics’ and he was fed up of their frequent partying.
The killer claimed he had no criminal record, but police are investigating whether he ate his victims after boiling their heads in a saucepan.
