Grindr Cannibal Sentenced to Life in Prison for Kevin Bacon Murder
A Michigan man convicted of killing, gutting, and eating the testicles and other body parts of a hairdresser he met on Grindr has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Mark Latunski, 50, pleaded guilty in September to the December 24, 2019, murder of Kevin Bacon, 25.
Lawyers for Latunski had previously contended the man was mentally ill and unfit for trial. As a result of Latunski’s confession, Shiawassee County judge Matthew J.
Stewart was tasked with determining whether the crime was first or second-degree murder, and he ruled in October the crime qualified as the more serious premeditated first-degree.
On Thursday, he sentenced Latunski to the maximum punishment allowed under Michigan law. Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1963.“In your sick, twisted mind, you probably don't think you did anything wrong,” Bacon’s mother, Hannah, wrote in a statement that was read at the sentencing hearing, the Daily Mail reports. “This Christmas, I hope you suffer like we have.”Bacon, a successful hairdresser and a student at the University of Michigan-Flint, had told his roommate on Christmas Eve of 2019 he was meeting a man he had been speaking with on Grindr.
