between 1974 and 1978, and Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 boys and young men, most of them in the late 1980s.… Homicide, the killing of one human being by another. Homicide is a general…… cannibalism, eating of human flesh by humans.

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer, serial rapist, and necrophile who murdered ten people, including his paternal grandparents and mother. He is noted for his height of 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m), and for his high intellect, possessing an IQ of 145.

How Many People Did Jeffrey Dahmer Eat? Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 young men and confessed to eating them as well.

Lycaon, in Greek mythology, a legendary king of Arcadia. Traditionally, he was an impious and cruel king who tried to trick Zeus, the king of the gods, into eating human flesh. The god was not deceived and in wrath devastated the earth with Deucalian’s flood, according to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I.

Ya̧nomamö consumed the ground-up bones and ashes of cremated kinsmen in an act of mourning; this is still classified as endocannibalism, although, strictly speaking, “flesh” is not eaten. Such practices were generally not believed to have been driven by need for protein or other food.

The Aztecs apparently practiced cannibalism on a large scale as part of the ritual religious sacrifice of war captives and other victims. In some cases, the body of a dead person was ritually eaten by his relatives, a form called endocannibalism. Some Aboriginal Australians performed such practices as acts of respect.

Cannibalism has recently been both practised and fiercely condemned in several wars, especially in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was still practised in Papua New Guinea as of 2012, for cultural reasons and in ritual as well as in war in various Melanesian tribes.