Idaho murder suspect charged with cannibalism; believed eating victim could 'cure his brain,’ authorities say

An Idaho man accused of killing a 70-year-old man is now charged with cannibalism and allegedly said he believed that eating the victim could "cure his brain," according to court documents.

Authorities found Flaget upside down in the passenger seat of his truck with body parts missing and his wrists duct-taped together, prosecutors said. At the time, Russell fled from sheriff's deputies and barricaded himself in a garage but was arrested after a brief standoff. 

"There’s a lot of facets we will certainly never know," Bonner County Detective Phillip Stella said last week. "It wasn’t the bloodiest crime scene, but it’s more of the psychological, ‘what the heck is going on here?’ and ‘why am I picking up pieces?’ It’s a walk down the dark path that we don’t see very often."