The Zombies Have Finally Arrived Replacing Those Pesky Vampires and Serial Killers: Is The Entertainment Media To Blame?
WARNING: This article may be disturbing to some readers. It contains true stories and graphic descriptions of real cannibalism.
The Zombies Have Finally Arrived Replacing Those Pesky Vampires and Serial Killers: Is The Entertainment Media To Blame? ...by Bill Knell
Every few years someone plays a practical joke on drivers by hacking into those flashing electronic highway warning signs with messages like: "WARNING: Zombies ahead." Now it seems those pranksters may be right! Recent crimes have given me pause to wonder if the Zombies have arrived and are beginning to take things over. Recent crimes may prove we have been invaded by those flesh-eating stiffs or their ghoulish human counterparts.
A Canadian porn actor named Luka Rocco Magnotta is wanted for recently killing Jun Lin, a Chinese student who was attending Concordia University in Montreal. He not only killed Lin, but videotaped himself repeatedly stabbing the Chinese national and dismembering him. Reports from Montreal say that Magnotta mailed some of Lin's body parts to Canadian Politicians and may have eaten others.
Just last month another man named Rudy Eugene stripped naked on one side of the Miami Herald newspaper building and attacked Ronald Poppo. Video cameras captured the horrific crime and onlookers were horrified to see that Eugene was actually eating Poppo's face. He ate the man's nose, ears and eyes. When Police arrived on the scene Eugene growled at them like a dog and continued his mission of cannibalistic carnage until they were forced to shoot him.
Less than two weeks after that incident a man named Alexander Kinyua of Joppatowne, Maryland, was turned into Police by his brother who believed that Alexander had killed and partially eaten his housemate. Kinyua's brother discovered what he believed to be human remains that looked as though they had been chewed-on in the basement of his father's home. When he asked Alexander about them, he said they were just animal remains. However, when Kinyua's housemate turned up missing, Police investigated and charged Alexander with murder. It was later discovered that the suspect had eaten his housemate's heart and part of his brain.
A New Jersey man named Wayne Carter started acting strange, threatening to harm himself with a knife. By the time Police arrived he had already began to cut himself open. After cutting out his entrails, he threw them at Police along with other pieces of flesh that he cut cut from other parts of his body. Pepper spray had no effect on Carter, so a S.W.A.T. team was called in to subdue him. He somehow survived all the self-inflicted carnage and was taken to a hospital.
As if all this wasn't enough, a woman named Otty Sanchez called "a sweet person" by her boyfriend was recently arrested for killing and eating her baby. Police were horrified when they responded to a call about a a disturbance at the Sanchez home only to find her baby Scott be-headed and partially eaten by his mother. Otty Sanchez was discovered sitting on her couch making bizarre sounds and speaking incoherently. She had a number of self-inflicted wounds and later told authorities that she had been hearing voices that ordered her to kill and eat her offspring. Two other children in the home were unharmed.
Are these crimes copycat incidents by people that have watched too many Zombie films or left the TV on while they were sleeping only to have episodes of 'The Walking Dead' leave somnambulistic suggestions buried deep inside their unconscious mind? I don't have the answer to that, but this is not the first time that a disturbing trend of gruesome murders might be able to be traced back to what people have read about, heard on records, watched on TV or seen in movies.
During the late 1960s the infamous Manson Family murders in California were said to have been inspired by messages that cult leader Charles Manson derived from listening to record albums by The Beatles.