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 The New York Post reports: "French pizza chef confesses to killing reclusive man, then chopping and cooking his body in pot of vegetables." Philippe Schneider, 69, has confessed to murdering then-60-year-old Georges Meichler, who disappeared in 2023, while also implicating his girlfriend, 45 year-old Nathalie Caboubassy in the crime. According to Schneider, he and his girlfriend broke into Meichler's house and tied him up before searching the house. But Meichler, he says, suffocated. 

    To cover up the incident, the pizza chef reportedly said, he dismembered the victim’s body, burned his head, hands and feet, and left pieces scattered throughout the area and inside Meichler’s own van — with which the pair absconded, according to trial testimony.

    Schneider also said he tried cooking parts of Meichler’s body in a pot of vegetables in line with a religious ritual he learned about in Nepal and to cover the smell, the outlet reported.

    Another man on trial, a 25-year-old gravedigger allegedly roped in as an accomplice, said Schneider ordered him to cook the meat until it “falls off the bone” and to tell anyone who asked questions that it was “food for the dog,” according to the Sun. 

According to the article, "Schneider is on trial for kidnapping leading to death, concealment of a corpse, and endangering the integrity of the corpse," while Caboubassy--who denies any involvement in the crime--and the gravedigger have both been charged as accomplices.