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Old 10-17-2011, 10:51 PM   #1
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Cool yachtsman feared eaten by cannibals

Stefan Ramin and Heike Dorsch were on the trip of a lifetime heading for New Zealand. A round-the-world yachtsman travelling to New Zealand is feared to have been hacked to pieces and eaten by cannibals on a South Pacific island.

Stefan Ramin, 40, from Germany, was visiting the remote French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas with his girlfriend when he disappeared last week.

Human remains - which local police believe to be Mr Ramin's - have been found in a campfire.

His girlfriend Heike Dorsch, 37, said he went on a goat-hunting trip with a local guide called Henri Haiti.

She told Britain's Daily Mail that only the guide returned from the hunting expedition and told her: "There's been an accident. He needs help."

But before she could rush to her boyfriend's aid, Ms Dorsch said, Haiti chained her to a tree and sexually assaulted her.

After hours of abuse, she managed to escape and alert authorities.


A week later, a squad of 22 police officers found ashes in a valley on the island and among the embers were bones including a jawbone, teeth and melted metal - believed to be fillings.

The authorities believe a human body was hacked to pieces and burned.

The remains will be flown to Paris for DNA analysis to confirm they are Mr Ramin's.

Mr Ramin wrote about his plans on Facebook only hours before his disappearance.

In Germany, one of his friends later wrote of the news of his death: "It is unbelievable, unspeakably horrible but may not all be true."

Henri Haiti has not been seen since he attacked Ms Dorsch and French Polynesian soldiers have joined local police in the hunt for him.

Mr Ramin and Ms Dorsch set off from Haselau in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, in a catamaran for a round-the-world trip.

According to reports the couple, both economists, wanted to end their journey in New Zealand next year.

After arriving in French Polynesia last month, they planned to spend several months on the island of nearly 3000 people.

It is not known whether Ms Dorsch is still in Nuku Hiva.




http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news...ectid=10759839





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Old 10-18-2011, 05:10 AM   #2
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SP, I kept looking for the punch-line on this story (based on some of the hilarious Dock Walk stories you've posted in the past)... but it appears to be real?

Bizarre...
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Old 10-18-2011, 01:06 PM   #3
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yep...I included the website to the news paper article and rather scary.......thought it was bizarre to say the least....didn't realize there were still cannibals in the world......


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Honestly, with a name like "Ramin" and it being a 'food' (OK, Eating) related story, I thought for sure there was a punchline coming. I got to the bottom and thought, this is really the worst joke........oh............Not a joke.
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Ramin.....mmmmm...tastes like chicken!!!




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