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Abstract

Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict incarcerated on Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (modern day Tasmania, Australia) in 1822, following his transportation to the colony from the United Kingdom for seven years in 1819. On two occasions he escaped from the island, in September 1822 and again in November 1823, and was only able to survive the harsh conditions by killing and consuming his fellow escapees. Given that Pearce utilized the only sustenance that was at hand (i.e. his five companions), and that there was a temporal separation between the two episodes, this may represent a separate category of anthropophagy, that of serial opportunistic cannibalism.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Byard, RW and Maxwell-Stewart, HJ
Keywords:	convict, crime, penal, cannibalism
Journal or Publication Title:	Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology
Publisher:	Humana Press, Inc.
ISSN:	1547-769X
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-017-9938-6
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2017 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Maxwell-Stewart, HJ UTAS Profile: Maxwell-Stewart, HJ
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