PAUL WEBER TYLER A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police in Texas.

Christopher McCuin, 25, told an emergency dispatcher on Saturday that he had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body at his mother's home in Texas, said Smith County Sheriff J B Smith.

Police arrived to find Shearer's mutilated body, one ear boiling in a pot on the stove and a fork sticking out of human flesh sitting on a plate on the kitchen table. They said it was unclear whether McCuin eaten any of the flesh.

"We cannot prove that he did," Smith said. "He was either going to, had been or led us to think that he was doing it."

Authorities believe Shearer, 21, was abducted from her home on Friday night and killed. Her death and mutilation was apparently the beginning of a crime spree that also included McCuin allegedly stabbing the boyfriend of his estranged wife and breaking into a business.

The stabbing victim is in critical condition.

McCuin, of Tyler, about 110 miles east of Dallas, is due in court on murder charges.

Before he called police, McCuin told his mother and her boyfriend to look in their garage. There the couple saw the remains of Shearer. They fled and flagged down a police officer. McCuin called authorities after they left.

Shearer appeared to have died from a blow to her head, Smith said. She may have been kidnapped on Friday night, when her mother saw her get into McCuin's pick-up truck. "There was no struggle but she could see the girl left with no shoes, no purse and no cell phone," he said.

McCuin then drove to his estranged wife's home, where he stabbed William Veasley, 42. McCuin was there when deputies arrived, but escaped in his car after a short chase.

McCuin was not seen again until Saturday morning, when he arrived at his mother's home and called her into the garage so she could "come and see what he had done", Smith said.-AP