Mexican tamale vendor arrested after mutilated body found in his home

SFGate.com ^ | April 21, 2004 | Staff

[Bubba_Leroy]

A tamale vendor in western Mexico was arrested after police discovered a carved-up body in his home, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors said Wednesday. The vendor denied using human flesh in his food.

The vendor, who sold tamales from a cart in the city of Morelia in Michoacan state, was arrested Tuesday after police received an anonymous tip that he had a dismembered body in his house, said Lorena Cortes, a spokeswoman for Michoacan state prosecutors.

Police entered the home and found body parts, some of which appeared to have been boiled with herbs. A daylong analysis of the tamales found in the house revealed that they were free of human flesh, Cortes said.

[RightOnline]

O..............K.........................

[annyokie]

TG I never ate food from those taco vendors. It's a little bit difficult to disguise anything else as a lobster in Rosorito.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Tamale Lector

[AntiGuv]

Hmm.. Once in a while I buy a tamale from a sweet little old lady in the local park. Hmmm........

[SGCOS]

Here today, gone tamale

[bitt]

"police received an anonymous tip that he had a dismembered body in his house"

he shoun'ta told his biatch she looked fat in those jeans...

[F.J. Mitchell]

I was hoping that if human flesh was found in the tamales, that the deceased was a Mexican. There is nothing more low down than a vender selling faux Mexican food.

[blackbart.223]

"Once in a while I buy a tamale from a sweet little old lady in the local park."

You might want to quit doing that.

[bitt]

perhaps it was

"Tex-MIX".

[Ruth A.]

Nothing like having my grandmother's birthplace (100 years ago) catch me eye and end up with something like this. Wow. Now, I will have to remember this article whenever I make tamales.

[socal_parrot]

God only knows what the "Chicklets" the little kids in TJ sell actually are.

[TASMANIANRED]

"A daylong analysis of the tamales found in the house revealed that they were free of human flesh, Cortes said."

What an honest businessmen. The human flesh was for personal consumption.

[blackbart.223]

"Police entered the home and found body parts, some of which appeared to have been boiled with herbs.'

The next white meat?

[NRA2BFree]

eeeeeewwww! Gag. Never eat anything in Mexico unless it's prepared in a reputable restaurant.

[Right Angler]

I really, realy want to know if the policia told him to "drop the chalupa" when they came through the door..,

[F.J. Mitchell]

"He shoun'ta told his biatch she looked fat in those jeans."

Anyone familiar with Mexican women, know darn well that if he had said that, he would be the stuffing in the tamale.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Never eat anything in Mexico unless it's prepared in a reputable restaurant.

And how do you know who supplies the restaurant?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Tex-Mix or Tex-Mex-wasn't that on the menu at all the resturants around San Antonio for months after the siege at the Alamo?

[Choose Ye This Day]

MMMMMMmmmmmm.... ¡Sabroso!