Dec 01, 2009

Peru's kill-for-fat gang may be deadly police hoax

07:13 PMKarel Navarro, AP

Remember that grisly story two weeks ago about a Peruvian gang that murdered people and extracted their fat to sell to European cosmetics companies?

Seems it was big fat lie concocted by police — perhaps to conceal police murders of drug dealers, according to Time magazine.

As a result, the country's head of criminal investigations was fired today. Police are conducting an internal investigation.

The tale began to unravel after experts disputed that a black market for human fat existed, saying fat taken from someone else's body has no cosmetic or medical value.

See the Time article or AP for all the details.

And stay tuned —

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