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UPDATE: Joppa Man Charged After Alleged Cannibalism, Murder

Alexander Kinyua had been in jail just two days before Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie was reported missing from the residence the two men shared.

 

UPDATE (2:30 p.m., May 31)—A 21-year-old Joppatowne man was arrested Wednesday and charged with first degree murder after an alleged case of cannibalism and decapitation of a man who had been missing since Friday.

Alexander Kinyua, 21, of 535 Terrapin Terrace in Joppatowne, has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault, according to a press release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday night.

According to charging documents, Kinyua—a Morgan State University student—allegedly told detectives that he killed Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, cut him up with a knife then ate part of the dead man's heart and brain before hiding body parts in his basement.

Kinyua was being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center Thursday afternoon following a bail review hearing in Harford County District Court.

The Harford County Sheriff’s Office said Agyei-Kodie, who also lived at 535 Terrapin Terrace, was reported missing on Friday.

Agyei-Kodie, 37, was described last week as being 5-foot-6, 170 pounds with black hair, brown eyes and a tribal scar on his left cheek, according to a statement from the sheriff's office.

The sheriff's office had said he was last seen around 5:30 p.m. on May 25 near his home wearing jogging attire—a white T-shirt and blue shorts—with no wallet, phone or keys.

Detectives checked local hospitals and detention facilities as well as the missing man’s acquaintances with no results.

On Tuesday, detectives contacted the residents at the Terrapin Terrace home who said they hadn’t seen Agyei-Kodie. That night, Alexander Kinyua's father, Antony Kinyua, called a detective to let him know his other son, Jarrod Kinyua, found what looked like human remains in the basement of the home, according to charging documents.

Jarrod Kinyua told police he went into the laundry room and saw a blanket on top of a box. He said when he took off the blanket he saw two tins, which he opened.

Jarrod Kinyua told police he found what looked like a human head and two human hands inside the tins, according to charging documents.

He said he then confronted his brother, Alex Kinyua, who said the remains belonged to an animal, charging documents state.

Jarrod Kinyua then brought his dad down to the basement where they found Alex Kinyua cleaning the containers.

On Wednesday morning Harford County Sheriff’s Office deputies executed a search and seizure warrant at 535 Terrapin Terrace and discovered "partial human remains in the residence and in a dumpster located off of Trimble Road," the press released stated.

"While positive identification of the human remains must be confirmed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, investigators have strong suspicions that the remains are those of the missing person, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie," the press released stated.

Charging documents state police found a human head and two human hands in the house. From there, Alex Kinyua directed investigators to a dumpster outside the Town Baptist Church on Trimble Road where they found more remains.

According to charging documents, Alex Kinyua told police he allegedly killed Agyei-Kodie by cutting him up with a knife then, once he was dead, ingested parts of the dead man’s heart and brain.

It is unclear what relationship the men had other than sharing the Terrapin Terrace residence. Online court records indicate that Kinyua had been released from a Baltimore City jail on $220,000 bail May 23, two days before Agyei-Kodie was reported missing. 

Kinyua was released after having been arrested on May 20 on charges of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment for a May 19 incident, according to online records. A preliminary hearing in that case is scheduled for June 19.

The May 19 case allegedly involved the attack on a fellow Morgan State University student, according to an article in The Baltimore Sun.

Kinyua allegedly hit a student with baseball bat then ran into nearby woods, according to the same Baltimore Sun story.

In the days leading up to his arrest, Kinyua allegedly posted bizarre messages on Facebook including coded messages that lead to messages elsewhere on the Internet, according to The Baltimore Sun.

One of the messages discusses school shootings, “death cults” and "destruction of the black family," according to The Baltimore Sun.

Related Topics: Bel Air Crime, Harford County Crime, Joppatowne, and human remains

Jessica

9:40 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012

what is wrong with people!?

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Zombie Czar

10:36 am on Thursday, May 31, 2012

He's infected with the zombie virus, now the whole HCDC is infected. Arm yourselves, the zombie apocalypse is upon us!

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Longtime Joppatowne Resident

10:53 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Goes good with fava beans and a nice chianti........

Marty Warren

5:11 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

Many people ask, "Are people going crazy or are we just hearing about it now because of the internet and 24 hr News channels?" In my humble opinion, People are definately getting INSANELY violent and crazy, the people who say "No, there's just more news coverage" are part of the problem.

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Brent

8:16 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

No, people have always been capable of being violent and crazy the whole time. You don't have to look to hard in human history to figure that out.

THIS, and the incident in Florida may be more of an indictment of how poorly we handle mental health these days.

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Take Responsibility!

8:50 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

What kind of person compares those that say "No, there's just more news coverage" with cannibalistic killers? People with no critical thinking, or just plain dumb people???

Tracey

5:36 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

Wow. great PR for Morgan State.

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JohnWalker

8:06 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

I am a young man cant decide if the world is going crazy or if I am just reading the news too much now-a-days. I am worried that the general public is getting a little dumber lately because in the news it seems like people cant stop from drowning or getting shot up, crashing their whole family's up and now eating each other!! Too much pop music and fluoride water

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Bel Air Native

6:59 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

No offense, but you don't sound like a young man.

Taro kuuku

8:33 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

This man should be sentence to firing squad . He should die a painful death.

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Jennifer

10:05 pm on Thursday, May 31, 2012

I wonder if this is another case of someone using the drug known as "bath salts"; it's very disturbing to read of this happening in Miami, and so close to home in MD Harford Co. Unreal.

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Zombie Czar

12:44 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

The Miami Zombie was only known to have been a marijuana smoker, he was also hyper-religious and it appears that his behavior had been out of sorts for weeks prior to his flesh eating rampage. Toxicology reports will not be back for weeks. The reports of LSD and bath salts are mere speculation.

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Zombie Czar

12:51 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

The Joppatowne Cannibal was apparently out of sorts for a while too, based on his deranged internet postings, and the reported baseball bat bludgeoning just 5 days before he (allegedly) feasted on the brains of his boarder. There has been no mention whatsoever of drugs in his case. People, including myself, are grasping for answers. And quite honestly, I would rather chalk these incidents up to Zombie Virus Induced Psychosis, over Reefer Madness.

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Karen B

1:25 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

I'm a pretty smart person, however, I have never heard of a zombie virus. Could someone explain this to me? I'm in college majoring in psychology with a minor in forensic and I am trying to learn all I can about the human brain and I want to help people who have " lost their minds". Most psychiatrist and therapist don't care these days, but I genuinely do, and this case is very disturbing.

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Zombie Czar

10:42 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

The government will deny the Zombie Virus exists, but the proof is in the pudding, brain pudding that is. The virus is said to have been discovered/hybridized from a form of rabies during WWII by a German scientist working for the US Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Apparently, a sealed slide was ruptured during a building renovation at APG in January of this year, and unbeknownst to the construction workers, they took the virus out into the general population on their clothing. The virus has a 5-6 month incubation period once exposed to an open wound or mucus membrane. We have only just begun to see the effects. God help us all!

Hollee Sifford

5:41 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Wonder if they put this sick-o in general population..to him that is probably a "smorgasboard" of sorts

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Zombie Czar

10:29 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

I wonder how his cell-mate has been sleeping?

1ke

7:38 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

I remember when Joppatowne was a nice place and you could take your kids there. But now look!

People chopping up folks and eating their body parts! If you elect me, I will put a stop to this nonsense.

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Zombie Czar

10:21 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

You and Mayor Rawlings-Blake will likely perish at the hands of roving mobs of black zombie youth.

Siege

8:41 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

This story leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

You've gotta hand it to the cannibal's brother though for not losing his head upon discovering the remains and having the heart to report it to the police. It's unfortunate that when the cannibal was in custody no one in the system had the brains to recognize his mental illness and do something to sever his connection to society.

Sorry, I'll cut it out with the bad puns as I realize they are in poor taste. I don't know where my head was this morning.

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Zombie Czar

10:22 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

That was a very cleaver post.

Longtime Joppatowne Resident

10:52 am on Friday, June 1, 2012

Whats really scary is, they found the head and hands and when the brother was washing the tins out, they had to have realized what he did. Yet, they stayed in the house with him and the remains until the next morning when the police searched the house........And now they are still living in the house......Blech.....

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Zombie Czar

12:59 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Snopes is a tool of the Obama administration, need I say more?
The virus is not named LPQ-79, it's name is not known outside of the Army research lab, because it is highly classified. My source, whom I shall now refer to as Deep Throat II, was assigned to the research lab until this week when the stories started breaking. D.T. II and co-workers have all been reassigned to Fort Dietrich and Adelphi, MD.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

ZC

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Longtime Joppatowne Resident

1:43 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Think its time to pop a pill and make an appt to see your psychiatrist............

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Other Tim

3:45 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Obama has been blamed for a lot of things, but this is too much. Now he controls Snopes? Wow!

Just Me.

2:05 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

Although I don't believe the Zombie Apocolypus stuff, I will say ... His picture is NOT helping to put that fire out ... He looks completely unstable and similar to how zombies have been portrayed in movies.

However, I do have to express my condolences to all the families involved here. Two families lost two children. Sad, sad, sad.

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Spring Heeled Jack

3:54 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

I guess black people (oops... this guy is REALLY African-American) have finally joined us white folks with the cannibalism/ murder/ serial killer tendencies. Cheers my black friends.

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1ke

4:42 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

The victim, according to CNN, was a Republican candidate for the Harford County Council.

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jess smith

8:12 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

this crap called glass cleaner is being sold as a disguise as bath salts people i have been through hell and back with this crap locked in my house accused of having men live in the same place as my husbend and doing nasty acts he swears he saw me this stuff is so jdangourous people need to be educaducated on this it is not decetectable on any drug test or toxic report! this stuff sent my husbend to the phy. ward once and tried to kill himself twice i live in constant terror because of the places that are masking this drug it is horriable! the things i have seen while him on this is insanne! he would take my keys from me cause he thought i had no job while i did the list goes on shelia dixion banned bath salts but they are now selling it under glass cleaner! be be aware i am so close to going on channel 11 news the community needs to be made aware of this!

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jess smith

8:18 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012

jennifer it is i am telling you i have been throough he!! and back over this crap i even went to the store and told them u sell to my husbend one more time i will go to the news! then he was in a phy. ward along with alot of crazy stuff and tried to take his life 2 times so you are right jen it is! it makes you sucididel and homiciditial sorry not a great speller lol

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Noneofyabusiness

2:39 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Ya sum damn idiots how your going to joke about some psycho shit like this . Grow the fuck up and realize this is REAL shit happening in our world!

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