Alexander Kinyua says he ate brain, heart of murdered housemate

A Baltimore college student, Alexander Kinyua, has confessed to killing his housemate and eating parts of his brain and heart.

Kinyua, 21, has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, the Associated Press reported. He is being held without bail.

Both men had been enrolled at Morgan State University and lived together with Kinyua's family in the suburb of Joppatowne, CBS Baltimore said.

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According to charging documents posted by the Baltimore Sun, Agyei-Kodie had been missing for four days when, on Tuesday, Alexander Kinyua's brother Jarrod discovered two tins hidden under a blanket in the basement. They contained a human head and hands.

Alexander Kinyua told his brother that the remains were animal. After going to fetch their father, Jarrod returned to find the body parts gone and Alexander cleaning out the tins.

The family called police, who found the head and hands stashed in the house. Kinyua told them where to find the rest of the body: in a dumpster outside a nearby church.

He has admitted to killing Agyei-Kodie "by cutting him up with a knife," the charge sheet says, and further told detectives that he had eaten his victim's heart and portions of his brain.

Kinyua's confession was "matter-of-fact," a police spokeswoman told the Sun, and did not shed any light on his motive.

According to CBS, Kinyua was due to be expelled from university after beating a fellow student with a baseball bat days earlier. That student was left blind in one eye by the apparently random attack.

Agyei-Kodie, a Ghanaian national, was also dismissed from Morgan after receiving a conviction for a fourth-degree sex offense, harassment and stalking in 2008, the Sun reported.