Mexican tamale chef kills and cooks his buddy
A Mexican tamale chef killed his drinking buddy and made tamales* using the man's body.
He cut up the body and boiled the body parts in herbs.
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Carlos Machuca, a 56-year-old man, who is tamale-maker for a living, was arrested at his
home in Morelia after the police received an anonymous phone call on Tuesday.
When the police arrived at Mr Machuca's house, they found a mutilated corpse of a man in
the living room. They also found some body parts simmering in saucepans on the stove.
Lorena Cortes, a spokeswoman for Michoacan state prosecutors said: "We saw the flesh
and the tamales, and our first impression was that he was making tamales with the flesh of
the deceased, although it has yet to be confirmed".
Lorena also said that it looked like Carlos was trying to dispose of the body by maybe
even selling the tamales to customers. According to the police Carlos stabbed the man
with a knife trough the heart. It happened after both men got into a fight after they had been
drinking together.