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Budapest Man Held After Police Find Human Body Parts and Reconstructed Face

Forensic tests of seized remains alongside seized devices could expand charges to include homicide.

Head stones and The Cross of Sacrifice are pictured at Budapest War Cemetery, close to Solymar, Hungary on October 30, 2024, ahead of the Day of the Dead. The cemetery contains one single First World War burial, and 173 Commonwealth burials of World War II, all of them airmen whose graves were brought in from sites all over Hungary after the war. Three of them are unidentified. The cemetery also contains one French and 37 Polish War Graves, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP) (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)
Man ate human remains he collected from hospital & abandoned cemeteries: police (Photo: National Bureau of Investigation -- Hungary)
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A file photo of a low winter sunlight flooding through a misty cemetery in Stoke-on-Trent.

Overview

  • Police arrested a 30-year-old hospital orderly in Budapest on June 17 after a tip led investigators to search his home and workplace.
  • Officers recovered skulls, a lower leg, a hand, bones in a suitcase, a reconstructed face made from skin and a heart in a jar that is being tested for origin.
  • During questioning the suspect admitted collecting the body parts and told police he prepared and consumed some of them.
  • Investigators say the man likely used hospital access and dug up bodies from abandoned cemeteries in Hungary and Slovakia and have seized computers and phones for analysis.
  • Forensic examiners will trace where each item came from to identify victims and determine whether prosecutors will add more serious charges, a process that could take weeks and has cross‑border implications.