Speaking of severed human body parts in America, here's a weird and gory story from December.
Sewer workers in Michigan discovered two "precisely cut" cubes of human flesh in a drain pipe...
Police in Warren, outside of Detroit, say they "have no idea" whose remains they could be, other than they belong to an "unidentified obese white female."
Detective Mel Nearing told ABC the "chunks of skin and fat and little bit of muscle tissue" appeared to be "almost exact matches" in appearance to the 10 pieces found in the same sewer pipe about five miles away. The pieces found in August had a tattoo, and police have released a photo of the tattooed flesh in hopes someone recognizes the design.
The precision of the cuts suggests the body was frozen before slicing. Since the flesh discovered this morning didn't appear to have decomposed, police say it could be a second person or the same body had been frozen, with the killer disposing of it pieces at a time.
Once you get near Detroit, assume the Gothic.
(thanks to Steven "Has an Alibi" Kaye)