I thought the legends of Spanish Conquistadors killing South American Indians so they could use their fat to make potions to sell to Westerners were just tall tales but last week this myth became a reality.

A Peruvian gang that goes by the name Los Pishtaco was recently arrested for killing humans to procure their fat to sell it the European cosmetics industry, F*CKIN’ LOSERS!

The Pishtaco gang gets their name from the fantasy character, Pishtaco who in Peruvian culture is thought to be a bogeyman, or an evil-vampire. This dark stranger has been known to be white, and a predator who preys on innocent Indians, to murder them and exploit their bodies in repulsive ways, like stealing their body fat for different cannibalistic uses. The word Pishtaco stems from the Peruvian word: "pishtay" which mean to "behead, cut the throat or cut into slices"

According to Lila Lima, three gang members admitted to murdering at least five innocent victims. The Los Pishtacos gang members said they lured their unsuspecting victims into the Peruvian jungle by offering them employment before decapitating them and removing their limbs to collect fat. The police have reason to believe that the Los Pishtaco gang has been practicing this horrific crime for decades. Over 60 individuals, predominantly farmers and local Peruvians, have disappeared in the area just this past year! That’s a lot of lotion!

The Peruvian police are still looking for more than six other suspects, including the Los Pishtaco gang’s supposed leader, Hilario Cudeña, 56. Elmer Segundo Castillejos, who was one of the gang members who did not get away, said that Cudeña had been murdering for fat for more than 30 years. While no transactions have been confirmed, , Jorge Sans Quiroz, the lead prosecutor, said that two Italian citizens were suspected of conspiring to sell the fat "to be commercialized in European laboratories".

According to Colonel Jorge Mejía, the head of Peru’s anti-kidnapping police, when two of the alleged criminals were arrested in Lima, they had a bottle of liquid human fat, which they told police was worth $15,000 a liter, on them. They said other Peruvian gangs were involved in the trade, he said.

Police shared pictures of amber fluid and the picture of a decomposing head of a 27-year-old male victim. Gang member. According to Colonel Jorge Mejía, Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29 led the Peruvian police to the head, which was discarded in a coca-growing valley in the Huánuco region, after his arrest last month.

Castillejos described the gang’s methods to the told police, apparently the gang had decapitated the victims, cut off their arms, legs and organs and then hung their torsos upside down, heated them, causing fat to drip into tubs.

So the next time you generously slather lotion on your body, and you marvel at your luxuriously smooth skin, take a minute to look into where this lotion was made and who may have suffered for your soft skin!