A 53-year-old Michigan cannibal has been convicted of murdering a younger man he met by means of the relationship app Grindr.
Mark Latunski faces life in jail for the demise of Kevin Bacon in December 2019.
He had beforehand admitted to killing the 25-year-old, consuming components of his physique and hanging the mutilated, bare corpse the other way up from a ceiling at his dwelling in Bennington Township.
An extra two-day court docket listening to this week to find out whether or not the killing was premeditated concluded on Wednesday, throughout which Shiawassee County Judge Matthew Stewart dominated: “The court finds that this is a crime of cold calculation.
“Kevin Bacon’s demise was Mark Latunski’s design.”
Mr Bacon was final seen on Christmas Eve when he instructed a roommate he was leaving to satisfy a person he had linked with on Grindr.
His household reported him lacking on Christmas Day.
Shiawassee County prosecutor Scott Koerner mentioned the killing was premeditated and instructed the court docket that Latunski had instructed law enforcement officials he mentioned shopping for a dehydrator to make jerky out of Mr Bacon’s muscle groups, Mlive.com reported.
He reportedly additionally instructed them he had reduce off a part of the deceased’s genitalia and eaten it.
His lawyer Mary Chartier argued Latunski didn’t plan on killing Mr Bacon, noting that he allowed police inside his dwelling the place the sufferer’s physique was hanging by the ankles in his basement.
She insisted he didn’t perceive the gravity of his crime.
“He did not measure the consequences at all,” she mentioned.
First-degree homicide carries a compulsory sentence of life in jail.
Latunski is because of be sentenced on 15 December.
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