Horror novelist accused of boiling girlfriend's flesh

Jose Luis Calva, an aspiring Mexican horror novelist, has been arrested after police discovered his girlfriend's body parts scattered throughout his home.

The author told police he had boiled some of his girlfriend's flesh but that he hadn't eaten it however investigators are trying to determine if chunks of fried meat found in a pan in the apartment were human, a police spokesman said.

Police were called to Calva's apartment on Monday after neighbours reported a fetid smell where they discovered the dismembered body of his girlfriend Alejandra Galeana in a closet, the spokesman said. A leg and pieces of an arm were in a refrigerator and there were bones inside a cereal box.