Archaeologists researching the burial site found at Eton College near Windsor have confirmed Iron Age Britons were cannibals. The second two programmes in the Cannibal series have unearthed evidence of past cannibalism. we sensed that he was enjoying talking about his alleged cannibalism to a young woman.' 'Interviewing Shawcross,' she said, 'I was also aware that he felt he was behaving like Hannibal Lecter. In Tokyo, Sagawa talked of his unacceptable urges and said he would like to eat her. 'Both Sagawa and Dahmer had an obsessive need to connect and commune with their victims, while Chikatilo and Shawcross, in contrast, were both driven by a deep-seated violence.'Įnglish said she became aware during the interviews that both the cannibal killers she met were teasing her in a way which will be familiar to fans of Harris's novels, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal. The killers all suffered a strong sense of dislocation from their mothers very early in childhood.īut, for English, the differences between the cannibals were just as fascinating. 'There were striking similarities,' she said, 'not only in the kind of neurological problems we found but in the upbringing of these men.'Īll four shared a marked lack of normal function in an area of the brain known as the pre-frontal cortex, and they exhibited sexual problems which directed their libido away from penetrative intercourse. Treading in the footsteps of Harris's fictional FBI agent Clarice Starling, English visited both murderers and interviewed them about their pathological impulse to eat the bodies of their prey. The first two serial killers are both dead - Dahmer murdered in prison and Chikatilo executed in Russia - but English came face to face with the surviving cannibals, Sagawa and Shaw cross. In making the first film in the series, The Real Hannibal Lecters, the director Katharine English and her team of consultant psychologists set out to examine the psychological traits of Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrei Chikatilo, Issei Sa-gawa and Arthur Shawcross. What is more, they have proved cannibalism was once a regular feature of life in this country. According to the makers of the Channel 4 series Cannibal, which starts next week, the abhorrent crime is the result of a combination of fairly unremarkable factors. For the first time, the psychological profile of an Identikit cannibal killer has emerged from their study of the behaviour of four notorious offenders.
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