30. The Bean Clan’s Cannibalism Haul Grows
As the size of the Bean clan grew, their appetite and the amount of human meat needed to keep them in good fettle grew as well. As the local authorities missing person list kept growing and growing, the Bean clan began mounting ever more ambitious hunting forays, ambushing up to half a dozen travelers at a time, and taking their corpses back to the cave to be carefully prepared for the larder by the women folk.
All good things come to an end, however, and the cannibal clan’s luck eventually ran out. They ambushed a husband and wife returning from a fair, and while disemboweling the woman but before managing to kill her husband, a large group returning from the fair came upon the horrific scene. Outnumbered, the Beans fled back to their cave, leaving behind one partially butchered woman, her understandably livid widower, and a clear hint of what had been going on, lo those many years.