Bates explained to officers that he was part of the CIA's decades-long, secret MK Ultra program, which led to the former Memphis police officer receiving a chip in his brain, according to the arrest affidavit. Bates added that he hoped Defense Secretary James Mattis and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers would be able to shed some light on alleged "missing paychecks" he was to receive for his participation in the program.

A shopkeeper who knows the Russian 'cannibal couple' suspected of killing a woman and reported to have eaten around 30 people, told Ruptly news agency that the husband has a "smell" to him and the woman "likes to drink." The store clerk, who knows the couple for 10 years, said they often came to her shop "to buy cigarettes."

"The wife likes to drink. However, he is a hard-working man," she told Ruptly from her store in Krasnodar, referring to 35-year-old suspect Dmitry Baksheev and his wife, 42-year-old Natalia Baksheeva. The shopkeeper referred to Baksheev as being "friendly," noting that he often said "hello,""please," and "goodbye." She recalled, however, that Baksheev had a "smell" to him, as if he didn't shower. She believed the odor could have been caused by dogs and cats kept inside the couple's house.

Baksheev worked at a construction site, laying tiles, according to the woman. "He was always wearing work clothes, carrying around tools and building materials. When I heard about what had happened, I was shocked."

The wife, meanwhile, was described by the shopkeeper of being a "very untidy woman" who used to work as a nurse. Lately, however, the wife "didn't work at all, just drank."

His wife is reported to have been shown the faces of missing women in southern Russia and identified dozens who she claimed were their victims. A police source said: "Going through the photographs, the woman has recognised more than 30 victims that they killed and eaten together with her husband. A psychologist was sent from Nizhny Novgorod to make her talk."

Separate reports say Natalia was checked by a psychiatric hospital and found to be "mentally healthy".

"In their home, many mobile phones of their victims were found, and also video lessons on how to cook meals from human meat," said the police source.
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One sickening image appears to show a head being served as Christmas dinner surrounded by mandarins. A police source added: "The earliest date of their culinary experiment is 28 December 1999 - the date on one of the photographs. We can see a cooked human head at the big plate surrounded by mandarins. They put olives into the eyes and attached a lemon to the nose."

A police search found body parts in a rubbish container near the hostel where the pair lived and a red-haired woman's head in a metal bucket, with human skin nearby. More human remains were found in a cellar.
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A local shopkeeper remembers him coming to top up his mobile and walking away with blood dripping from a cooler bag he was carrying.
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His father - who was not named - said: "Before moving out of our flat he set fire to his room." He said: "He was convicted four times for stealing things. He took loans and gave my name as a trustee. I had to switch off my phone because banks kept calling me. I had tried to help him, I found jobs for him several times but what could I do? It is useless talking to him. His eyes are made of glass. He is looking through your body and does not listen."

© Metropolitan Nashville Police DepartmentPolice identified Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, as the suspected gunman who opened fire at a church in Antioch, Tennessee, on Sunday.

The suspect, 25-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson, immigrated from Sudan two decades ago, police said. He's suspected of bringing at least two pistols and a mask to the predominantly white Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, southeast of Nashville, before opening fire.

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department tweeted that Samson had been released from the hospital and will be charged with murder and attempted

"The Memphis FBI Field Office's Nashville Resident Agency, the Civil Rights Division, and the US Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee have opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee. The FBI will collect all available facts and evidence," FBI Memphis told Fox News.

An usher, identified as Robert Engle, 22, confronted the gunman at one point and was pistol-whipped, causing "significant injury around his head," police added. They said Engle went to his own car, grabbed a pistol and headed back into the church.

Law enforcement confirmed Samson is a legal U.S. resident who immigrated from Sudan in 1996.

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