Marion Jones, 31, plead guilty today to cannibalism in US District Court.
Her coach had been arrested for murdering Ms. Jones' competition for years,
but since no bodies were ever found, he was always released. Ms. Jones had
been questioned by police and district attorneys about the missing women and
claimed that she had never seen any evidence of foul play.
She told a judge today that those were lies. She admitted that she had
been unknowingly been eating the dismembered bodies of her competition for
years. She realized, after eating a few "finger sandwiches" that her coach
had been feeding her raw, uncooked appendages and body parts for years. She
said she had picked up the habit trying to guess what kind of sauce would be the
tastiest on new people that she meets.
Although she admits no blame in eating whatever her coach gave to her, she
says that she is to blame for lying to the police after she found out her. She
was sentenced to six days in jail for cannibalism.