1935 Cara Jasala

## Cara Jasala

b. 1885-ish d. \_\_\_ Arrested 1935 age 50

Serial killer, cannibal, graverobber, blood drinker. Maybe.

Described as having lived in huts and dug-outs for most of his life, Cara is said to have killed travelers in the rainforests of Boca del Toro. Robbery wasn't the main motive, per the reports as much as wanted to eat people and drink their blood. Both age and an undescribed injury led him to abandon the jungle and instead turn to grave robbing, exhuming the recently buried for his meat. Villagers seem to have caught him in the act and he was arrested in 1935.

I have not been able to find much beyond the sensationalized reports of his arrest.

### Detective Magazine

* Directeur Mariut Larique
* 24 Octobre 1935 Pg 5
* 8e Année - N° 365 / 8th Year - No. 365
* Criminocorpus Museum Of The History Of Justice, Crime And Punishment
* https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf

**"La bête humaine"**

La police de Panama vient d'arrêter l'Indien Cara Jasala chez lequel semblent avoir revécu les plus sombres instincts de l'homme primitif.

Cara Jasala est, en effet, un cannibale notoire qui, tel un grand fauve, terrorisait la province de Boca del Toro. Comme il ne parvenait pas toujours à se procurer des provisions de chair fraîche, l'Indien hantait les cimetières dont il dépeçait les cadavres.

Depuis que jasala est en prison, nul n'ose l'approcher, dans la crainte d'être dangereusement mordu par « la bête humaine ».

**"The Human Beast"** - Translated by Google, with grammar corrections and word rearrangement by Cinnamon.

Panama police come to arrest the Indian Cara Jasala, in whom the darkest instincts of primitive man seem to have revived. Cara Jasala is, indeed, a notorious cannibal who, like a big beast, terrorized the province of Boca del Toro. As he could not always to get provisions of fresh flesh, the Indian haunted the cemeteries whose corpses he dismembered.

Now that Jasala is in prison, no one dares approach him, in fear of being dangerously bitten by "the human beast”.

### Evening Herald

Republican and Herald from Pottsville, Pennsylvania

* VOL. LXV (65). No. 233 pg 1
* October 10, 1935
* No Author Stated
* Newspapers.com
* https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/

*[Above the image:]* Cannibal!

**VAMPIRE GHOUL MANIAC TAKEN**

BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama, Oct. 2.--(UP)-Provincial police today arrested Cara Jasala, maniac Indian cannibal, who, they said, has killed and eaten several persons and robbed scores of graves of newly buried bodies.

The Indian, described as about 50 and "half man and half animal" lived in lairs in the jungle and, until weakened by disease, attacked travelers by pouncing catlike on them on lonely forest trails. When no longer able to make a kill he resorted to grave robbing which resulted in his capture.

The man bit several policemen before he was overpowered. He will be sent to an asylum in Panama City.

*[Below the image:]* Cara Jasala, Indian, is being held in Panama City as the first authentic cannibal to be apprehended in Central America. Other Indians were the victims.

### Extra Stockton Independent

* Stockton, California
* VOL. 159 NO. 81 PAGE 4
* Thursday, October 03, 1935
* No Author Stated
* Newspapers.com
* https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/

VAMPIRE GHOUL MANIAC TAKEN

BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama, Oct. 2.--(UP)-Provincial police today arrested Cara Jasala, maniac Indian cannibal, who, they said, has killed and eaten several persons and robbed scores of graves of newly buried bodies.

The Indian, described as about 50 and "half man and half animal" lived in lairs in the jungle and, until weakened by disease, attacked travelers by pouncing catlike on them on lonely forest trails. When no longer able to make a kill he resorted to grave robbing which resulted in his capture.

The man bit several policemen before he was overpowered. He will be sent to an asylum in Panama City.

Cara Jasala, Indian, is being held in Panama City as the first authentic cannibal to be apprehended in Central America. Other Indians were the victims.

### El Democrata PANAMA , R. de P.,

* LUNES 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 1935
* No 1 Vol 64 Page 3
* No Author Stated
* "INSTINTOS DE HIENA"
* ReDDi - Digital Documents Repository
* http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf

**INSTINTOS DE HIENA**

United Press.—Panamá, octubre 1—La policía de la provncia del Toro (sic) aprehendió hoy a un indio de cincuenta años llamado Cara Jasala de quien se asegura que es antropófago con instintos de hiena Se le acusa de haber causado recientemente el terror en dicha provincia por sus actividades.

Uno de los cargos que se le hacen en concreto es el de desenterrar los cadáveres recién inhumados y cortarles los principales miembros para comérselos. La semana pasada fue sorprendido cuando exhumaba un cadáver y tratába de cortarle los brazos, pero los naturales lo impidieron e hicieron gestiones para que lo detuvieran las autoridades que pronto lo enviarán a esta capital.

**HYENA INSTINCTS** - Translated by Google, with some corrections by Cinnamon, who has been learning Spanish for a few years (and has just run across an idiom she doesn't know).

United Press.—Panama, October 1—The police of the Provncia del Toro (sic) *[Cinnamon's Note: "Provnce (sic) of the Bull"]* apprehended today a fifty-year-old Indian named Cara Jasala who is assured to be anthropophagous *[people-eating]* with hyena instincts. He is accused of having recently caused terror in that province by his activities.

One of the specific charges that they made against him is that of disinterring recently-inhumed corpses and cutting off their main limbs to eat them. Last week he was surprised while he was exhuming a corpse and trying to cut off its arms, but the natives stopped him and made arrangements to have him detained by the authorities, who will soon send him to this capital.

### Citations

###### Detective

La bête humaine

* Freehand: Detective
* Directeur Mariut Larique
* 24 Octobre 1935 Pg 5
* 8e Année - N° 365 / 8th Year - No. 365
* Criminocorpus Museum Of The History Of Justice, Crime And Punishment
* https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf

* APA: Larique, M. (Ed.). (1935, October 24). La bête humaine. Detective , 8(365), 5. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf.

* MLA: Larique, Mariut, editor. “La Bête Humaine.” Detective , 24 Oct. 1935, p. 5, https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

* Chicago: Larique, Mariut, ed. “La Bête Humaine.” Detective 8, no. 365, October 24, 1935. https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf.

* Harvard: Larique, M. ed., 1935. La bête humaine. Detective , [online] 8(365), 24 Oct., p.5. Available at: <https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf> [Accessed 23 Oct. 2022].

* Vancouver: Larique M, editor. La bête humaine. Detective [Internet]. 1935Oct24 [cited 2022Oct23];8(365):5. Available from: https://criminocorpus.org/media/filer\_public/fb/76/fb765146-a411-4099-b313-c15f85f0d1a8/bilipo\_p\_dev\_1935\_0365.pdf

###### Cannibal! 1

Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken

* Freehand: Evening Herald
* Republican and Herald from Pottsville, Pennsylvania
* No Author Stated
* Vol. LXV (65). No. 233 pg 1
* October 10, 1935
* Newspapers.com
* https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/

* APA: Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. (1935, October 10). Evening Herald Republican and Herald, p. 1. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/.

* MLA: “Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken.” Evening Herald Republican and Herald, 10 Oct. 1935, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

* Chicago: “Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken.” Evening Herald Republican and Herald. October 10, 1935, Vol. LXV (65). No. 233 edition. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/.

* Harvard: Anon, 1935. Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. Evening Herald Republican and Herald, [online] 10 Oct., p.1. Available at: <https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/> [Accessed 23 Oct. 2022].

* Vancouver: Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. Evening Herald Republican and Herald [Internet]. Vol. LXV (65). No. 233. Pottsville, Pennsylvania ; 1935Oct10 [cited 2022Oct23];:1. Available from: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/448282725/

###### Cannibal! 2

Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken

* Freehand: Extra Stockton Independent
* Stockton, California
* Vol. 159 No. 81 Page 4
* Thursday, October 03, 1935
* No Author Stated
* Newspapers.com
* https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/

* APA: Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. (1935, October 3). (Extra) Stockton Independent, p. 4. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/.

* MLA: “Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken.” (Extra) Stockton Independent, 3 Oct. 1935, p. 4, https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

* Chicago: “Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken.” (Extra) Stockton Independent. October 3, 1935, Vol. 159 No. 81 edition. https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/.

* Harvard: Anon, 1935. Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. (Extra) Stockton Independent, [online] 3 Oct., p.4. Available at: <https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/> [Accessed 23 Oct. 2022].

* Vancouver: Cannibal Vampire Ghoul Maniac Taken. (Extra) Stockton Independent [Internet]. Vol. 159 No. 81. Stockton, California; 1935Oct3 [cited 2022Oct23];:4. Available from: https://www.newspapers.com/image/608150469/

###### El Democrata

Instintos de Hiena

* Freehand: El Democrata PANAMA , R. de P.,
* LUNES 21 DE OCTUBRE DE 1935
* No 1 Vol 64 Page 3
* No Author Stated
* "INSTINTOS DE HIENA"
* ReDDi - Digital Documents Repository
* http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf

* APA: Instintos de Hiena. (1935, October 0). El Democrata, p. 3. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf.

* MLA: “Instintos De Hiena.” El Democrata, 0 Oct. 1935, p. 3, http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf. Accessed 23 Oct. 2022.

* Chicago: “Instintos De Hiena.” El Democrata. October 0, 1935, No 1 Vol 64 edition. http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf.

* Harvard: Anon, 1935. Instintos de Hiena. El Democrata, [online] 0 Oct., p.3. Available at: <http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf> [Accessed 23 Oct. 2022].

* Vancouver: Instintos de Hiena. El Democrata [Internet]. No 1 Vol 64. Panama; 1935Oct0 [cited 2022Oct23];:3. Available from: http://bdigital.binal.ac.pa/bdp/Periodicos/democrataoct%2021,%201935.pdf