Doctor: Poppo's Homelessness Helped Him Cope With Injuries
The voice sounded remarkably calm and steady describing the horrific attack by the so-called Causeway Cannibal Rudy Eugene.
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The voice sounded remarkably calm and steady describing the horrific attack by the so-called Causeway Cannibal Rudy Eugene.
Two months after he was viciously attacked on the MacArthur Causeway by the so-called Miami Zombie, Ronald Poppo succinctly summed up the events that captured the country's attention.
Rudy Eugene, the Causeway Cannibal who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was apparently not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner.
Doctors have released photographs of Ronald Poppo, more than two weeks after the homeless man had much of his face chewed off during an attack by so-called Causeway Cannibal Rudy Eugene over the Memorial Day weekend.
Thirty-one year old Rudy Eugene is now known around the world as the Miami Canninbal or the Cannibal on the Causeway after his horrific attack on Ronald Poppo, but new details from his autopsy may change the way he's described.
Rudy Eugene, the man the world knows as the Miami Cannibal, was laid to rest in Miami Saturday.
Nearly three weeks after Miami Police officer Jose Ramirez shot and killed the so-called "Miami Cannibal," CBS4 News has been given access to his personnel file.
The victim of the causeway cannibal attack has been in the hospital for nearly two weeks. He will endure a lifetime of facial reconstruction following the attack that left him without most of his face. CBS4's Cynthia Demos spoke to an expert about whether Ronald Poppo is a candidate for a face transplant.
High-powered Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred is planning a news conference in Miami Wednesday afternoon in connection with Miami's infamous "Causeway Cannibal" case.
Police now believe that Rudy Eugene, the so-called Miami Zombie, was not only naked, but was also carrying his bible, when he nearly beat a homeless man to death and chewed off three-quarters of his face.
First came Rudy Eugene's attack on Ronald Poppo on the MacArthur Causeway in Miami. Then in Texas a mother is accused of killing her newborn, eating part of his brain and biting off three of his toes.
As Ronald Poppo, the homeless victim in the brutal MacArthur Causeway cannibal-style attack, continues to fight for his life at Jackson Memorial Hospital, an aspiring young photographer is remembering how Poppo looked before he was viciously mauled.
In the week since the brutal face-mauling attack along the MacArthur Causeway in Miami, friends and family of the accused attacker, 31-year-old Rudy Eugene, have said he was a good guy looking to get his life on track.
High-powered Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred is now connected to Miami's infamous "Causeway Cannibal" case.
Police released three 911 calls from people on the MacArthur Causeway who witnessed a cannibalistic attack.
Before 65-year-old Ronald Poppo lost his face in a cannibalistic attack, he had completely lost touch with his family.
The daughter of Causeway Cannibal victim Ronald Poppo said she didn't know her father and that she thought he was dead long before the horrific attack by Rudy Eugene last Saturday.
Almost from the start, the story of a face eating cannibal dubbed the Miami Zombie has attracted headlines around the world.
South Florida is filled with history, including a history riddled with mobsters, con men, drug runners, fugitives and assassins; now we can add cannibal to the list. That's exactly what Miami's famous "Mystery, Mayhem and Vice" Crime Bus Tour is doing. IIt's adding the side of the MacArthur Causeway, where a naked Rudy Eugene ravaged the face of a complete stranger over Memorial Day weekend, to its list of stops on the tour of Miami-Dade's most celebrated crimes.
The best friends of the man police say committed a cannibal-style attack on the MacArthur Causeway are hoping the police investigation reveals what caused Rudy Eugene to snap.
The man at the center of one of Miami's most horrific crimes, a cannibal attack on the MacArthur Causeway, has left his on-again, off-again girlfriend thinking that Rudy Eugene was drugged unknowingly, or cursed.
A Miami homeless man, hospitalized after a brutal and vicious attack in which 75-percent of his face was chewed off by another man, faces a bigger threat from infection than from the injuries themselves, according to experts on facial reconstruction.
There are still more questions than answers in the wake of one of South Florida's most horrific crimes, a vicious and gruesome cannibal attack on a Miami causeway in broad daylight which ended only when a Miami police officer was forced to fire on the man believed to be in the midst of a drug-fueled rage.
When the Causeway Cannibal Rudy Eugene attacked Ronald Poppo, 65, he had been on the streets for more than 30 years. While he has a long criminal rap sheet related to being homeless, his sister Antoinette Poppo remembers a different time.
South Florida and the rest of the world is getting a closer look at the vicious cannibal attack on the MacArthur Causeway thanks to dramatic surveillance video taken by CBS4 News partner The Miami Herald, as we learn new details about the 12 hours leading up to the grisly crime.
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Signs have been posted in a South Miami neighborhood warning about blue green algae that may be in canal water and that leaves some poisonous substances or toxins in it.
Falling temperatures bring wind chills overnight, with a cold weather advisory in effect early Friday for Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
With Miami Beach serving as the official fan zone for the National Championship, hotels are filling up fast, and local businesses are preparing for a surge in visitors.
Staff planned to work long hours to shield trees from wind and cold temperatures. Still, they are also making sure the animals have what is needed to survive.
The Republican-controlled House, which passed the bill (HB 133) in a 74-37 vote, has tried repeatedly in recent years to reverse a law approved after the Parkland shooting that raised the minimum age to 21. The Senate refused to go along.
Signs have been posted in a South Miami neighborhood warning about blue green algae that may be in canal water and that leaves some poisonous substances or toxins in it.
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