*(via Miami Herald) – On the Saturday morning before he would make headlines for chewing off a man’s face –– before he would come to be known tragically as the “Miami Zombie”–– Rudy Eugene held his Bible and kissed his girlfriend goodbye.
Eugene’s on-again, off-again girlfriend said he woke her up at 5:30 a.m. to say he was going to meet with a “homeboy.” She said she found it strange he was rummaging the closet so early in morning. He didn’t name the friend or say where he was going.
He planted a kiss on her lips and said, “I love you.”
Shortly after, he left the central Broward apartment he shared with her.
“I told him be safe and I love you too. When he walked out the door I closed it, locked it and went back to sleep,” said the girlfriend, who spoke to The Miami Herald on Wednesday but asked that her name not be disclosed. She said that she thought it unusual that he was leaving the house so early, but didn’t press him on it.
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An hour after he left, Eugene called her cell phone. “He called me and told me his car broke down. He said, “I’ll be home, but I’m going to be a little late. Then he said, I’m going to call you right back.” That was the last time Eugene’s girlfriend heard from him.
“I’ll never be the same,” she said.
The man being depicted by the media as a “face eater” or a “monster” is not the man she knew, she said. He smoked marijuana often, though had recently said he wanted to quit, but he didn’t use stronger recreational drugs and even refused to take over-the-counter medication for simple ailments like headaches, she said. He was sweet and well-mannered, she said.
Eugene’s girlfriend has her own theory on what happened that day. She believes Eugene was drugged unknowingly. The only other explanation, she said, was supernatural — that someone put a Vodou curse on him. The girlfriend, who unlike Eugene is not Haitian, said she has never believed in Vodou, until now.
“I don’t know how else to explain this,” she said.
The girlfriend is stupid. Just because he was Haitian, automatically, it had to be a ‘voodoo curse’?? That’s so stereotypical. Why didn’t she say devil worshipping while she’s at it? I think this guy was on some of type of hallucinate-type drug or had a serious mental breakdown. Reading about it is horrendous enough and I don’t think anyone in their right mind would do what this guy did. Ugh! Just horrible all the way around. I hope the victim can recover and the doctors can try to reconstruct his face. This whole story makes my skin crawl. People are losing their minds!
I read that bath salts are now banned in Florida as in other states since mainly whites are abusing it as a means to get high. It seems they’re speculating Rudy may have been high on bath salts or LSD. That girlfriend better be glad he didn’t ingest whatever substances while they were alone together. I’m searching for stories with comments from his ex-wife but heard something that indicates she lived in fear of him despite being divorced for over 5 years.
Melody, what the heck is it about bath salts that are making fools high? I can’t believe I probably soon won’t be able to get any because fools are tripping off of the stuff. Who are the asses that think to do this crap?!
brooklynbabe, a cousin in PA told me a few months ago that bath salts were banned there after I suggested she take a long soak for muscle aches. Apparently many white kids have developed a huge appetite for it so the state has taken it off the shelves. It’s highly toxic and causes bizarre behavior and acute health problems.
You are both misinformed. Bath Salts is a slang term for this new drug cocktail being sold in convience stores, adult stores, etc. If you see something labeled as bath salts but being sold for $30 an ounce that is a big red flag it isn’t bath salt that you soak in.
This is not the bath salt you soak in. This is a slang term for a new type of drug cocktail. My county drug enforcement team recently did a raid at a adult store that was selling it for $30 and ounce packaged as Bath Salts. High School kids were going in there and buying it. Hopefully they put them out of business for good.
The feds have banned the sale of three of the drugs used to manufacture it for the short-term.
Didn’t I say the other day that I was waiting for someone to say VOODOO?!!!!
Haitians and voodoo is real. I grew up outside of Boston and our Haitian neighbors did voodoo meetings every week, from sun down to sun up the next day. I believe Eugene was high on this bath salts drug. The bath salts drug is made with actual bath salts laced with something else.
I believe the ‘practice’ of voodoo is real but obviously useless and ineffective. I wouldn’t trust anyone who actually believed in it. The bath salts drug and synthetic marijuana wreak havoc on the mind and body according to what’s being revealed. Folks will do anything to get high…need to just stick to gin and juice! I watched a documentary on this hillbilly clan in W. VA where some would huff gasoline for a fix.