A 30-year-old man from Budapest was arrested for storing human body parts in his home, Hungarian Police announced on Tuesday.
The man, an orderly at a Budapest hospital, was allegedly stealing remains he found both through his job at the hospital and by digging up bodies “in abandoned cemeteries in Slovakia and Hungary,” police stated.
The investigation, conducted by the police’s Life Protection Department, began after the department received information that the orderly was storing human remains both at work and at home.
While being questioned, the suspect told police he was “passionate about anatomy and pathology, and likes to dissect animals.”
Following his arrest, police searched all properties connected to him – including cars – and found a prepared human face, facial skin, bones stored in a suitcase, a complete lower leg, brain, hand, several skulls, and a heart in a jar.
Man confesses he used human remains to prepare food for himself
It was not immediately clear if the heart belonged to a human or animal.
The man confessed to the illicit use of human remains, admitting that he was “particularly attracted to human body parts, from which he had prepared food for himself in various ways and had eaten them.”
The police did not know exactly where each of the body parts came from, and the crimes the man could be charged with may expand as more information is learned.
