Florida investigators say the Miami man whose vicious face-eating attack left his victim with his eyes, nose and mouth chewed off may not have been a cannibal after all.
An autopsy of Rudy Eugene's body found there was no human flesh in his stomach, just a few undigested pills that will take several weeks to be identified through toxicology tests.
Authorities suspect Eugene may have been high on a street drug known as "bath salts" during the recent attack, in which he was naked and had to be shot to death by a police officer as he chewed on the face of Ronald Poppo.
The grisly assault on Poppo, a homeless man, lasted for 18 minutes and was captured on nearby surveillance cameras.
Poppo, 65, remains in critical condition after police say 75 percent of his face was devoured by Eugene.
The bizarre attack was one of the first in a string of unrelated cannibalistic incidents that has been dubbed the "zombie apocalypse."
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