Tourism Official: Causeway Cannibal Attack Won't Hurt Tourism
Almost from the start, the story of a face eating cannibal dubbed the Miami Zombie has attracted headlines around the world.
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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.
Former City of Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito, who was fired last year by the commission, is appealing his termination.
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.
A section of a Miami street was renamed Wednesday in honor of late Miami police Sgt. Angel Calzadilla.
Days after a naked Rudy Eugene attacked homeless man Ronald Poppo along the MacArthur Causeway, made a meal of his face, and was shot to death by police, we have learned more about what got him to the point of the attack, but little about what turned him into a growling cannibal who brutally attacked a man police believe was a total stranger.
CBS4 has confirmed, along with news partner The Miami Herald, the identity of the man whose face was laid bare by the cannibal attack of Rudy Eugene on the MacArthur Causeway Saturday afternoon.
Miami police are asking anyone who may have witnessed a nude man biting off pieces of another nearly naked man's face on the MacArthur Causeway over the weekend to come forward.
Miami police are still tight-lipped about the man they shot and killed on the MacArthur Causeway Saturday afternoon, but new details back claims they had no choice: the naked man they shot was trying to chew the face off another naked man, and refused to obey police orders to stop his grisly meal, which one source now claims included his nose and eyeballs.
Miami Police investigating Tuesday's Little Havana shooting are asking for the public's help finding 22-year-old Isabel Greenberg, who is wanted for questioning in reference to the shooting.
A man in Little Havana was left critically injured after he was shot during an attempted home invasion Tuesday morning.
Drunk driving is unfortunately a constant reality in South Florida. The crashes drunk drivers cause are sometimes deadly, but thanks to the work of those at the Ryder Trauma Center many people live. Some of those survivors paid tribute to the hospital staff Wednesday.
The world's oldest profession continues to turn up new victims every night in South Florida; but communities and local police aren't stopping in their attempt to end prostitution in their areas for the good of the residents and the prostitutes.
31 South Florida FHP troopers have been given oral reprimands for speeding and must also attend a 4 hour ethics course, the result of a Sun-Sentinel investigation into police officers ignoring the speed limit.
Miami Police are searching for a man who robbed a home in the middle of the night and fondled a girl in the process.
Pentagon officials say al Qaeda terrorists were, once again, plotting to blow up a plane using a bomb inside a passenger's underwear.
A dozen or so Miami police officers have taken their motto 'to protect and serve' to another level.
Police arrested three Occupy Miami protesters Tuesday on the streets of Downtown Miami.
Remember that Vicodin your doctor prescribed but you never finished? How about the oxycodone your aunt was taking when she came to visit but left behind. What do you do with it now? Cops and the DEA say they have a solution; turn it in, no questions asked.
More than a dozen people have been arrested in an insurance fraud scam responsible for keeping car insurance premiums sky high for the rest of us, according to police.
