Cannibals are everywhere these days. And not the long-ago, appease-the-sun-god type, a la the Aztecs. Nor are we talking the Donner Party-esque, survival-of-the-strongest-stomach type of cannibalism that occasionally strikes among the odd intrepid soccer team or Arctic expedition.

No, these cannibals are right here in good old modern-day North America. Over Memorial Day weekend, a man named Rudy Eugene was found naked on Miami’s MacArthur Causeway, consuming the face of another man — police had to shoot and kill him to interrupt the gruesome feast. A week later in a suburb of Baltimore, 21-year old Alex Kinyua “admitted using a knife to kill and carve up” his family’s 37-year-old tenant “before eating his heart and parts of his brain,” in the prosaic phrasing of the Associated Press.