Next Time Just Make A Sandwich

A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said regarding the feast incident which occurred early yesterday morning.

Otty Sanchez (33), is charged with capital murder in the death of her infant son, Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. She was recovering from her wounds at a hospital, and was being held on $1 million bail. Otty Sanchez's sister and her sister's two young children were also in the house, but none were harmed. Or apparently hungry.

Otty Sanchez's aunt, Gloria Sanchez, said her niece had been "in and out" of a psychiatric ward, and that the hospital called several months ago looking to check up on her. She did not elaborate on the nature of her niece's health problems, and certainly said nothing about why she had a couple of swords. "Otty didn't mean to do that. She was not in her right mind." No shit. She didn't even make any side dishes.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the attack occurred a week after the child's father moved out. Hmmm, smells like motive, unless...police said Sanchez told them the devil told her to kill her son and that she was hearing voices. Oh, you old standby excuse! McManus, who appeared uncomfortable as he addressed reporters, said Sanchez apparently ate the child's brain and some other body parts. She also decapitated the infant, tore off his face and chewed off three of his toes before stabbing herself. Sorry, but that doesn't sound like the devil I know...

"It's too heinous for me to describe it any further," McManus said, and then horked a large coffee and couple of doughnuts. He described the crime scene as so grisly that police officers barely spoke to each other while looking through the house. Officers called to Sanchez's house at about 5 a.m. found her sitting on the couch screaming "I killed my baby! I killed my baby!" They found the boy's body in a bedroom. "It was a spontaneous utterance," McManus said, but don't think that will make a difference in the state of Texas. They'll give you the death penalty for admitting you jaywalked. Police said Sanchez did not have an attorney, and they declined to identify family members who might speak on her behalf, as if there are any at all.

Neighbor Luis Yanez (23) said his kids went to school with one of the small children who lived at the house. He said he often saw a woman playing outside with the children but didn't know whether it was Otty. "Why would you do that to your baby?" said Yanez, a tire technician. "It brings chills to you. They can't defend themselves." Because eating children is okay if they're bigger and can defend themselves.

Investigators are looking into Sanchez's mental health history to see if there was anything "significant," like being raped by the devil or maybe attending the same school as the devil as a child, and whether postpartum difficulties could have played a role in the attack. The killing also calls to mind the drowning of five children by their mother in the bathtub of their Houston-area home in 2001. Attorneys for the woman, Andrea Yates, said she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and, in a delusional state, believed Satan was inside her and was trying to save them from hell. A jury found Yates not guilty by reason of insanity and sheer balls in 2006.