He then washed, boiled, and ate each piece.

Subsequently, he developed a further taste for human flesh, and was finally detected in eating a child which he had enticed into his house and killed.

He acknowledged his appetite before his trial.
Hector Boetius says that a Scotch brigand and his wife and children were condemned to death on proof that they killed and ate their prisoners.

The extreme youth of one of the girls excused her from capital punishment; but at twelve years she was found guilty of the same crime as her father and suffered capital punishment.

This child had been brought up in good surroundings, yet her inherited appetite developed.