Breaking Bad-obsessed Satanist Stefano Brizzi who murdered a cop he met on Grindr and dissolved him in acid has been found dead in prison in the UK.
Brizzi, 50, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Police Constable Gordon Semple in December and told he would serve a minimum of 24 years.
He is believed to have committed suicide on Sunday in Belmarsh prison, the Mirror reports.
Brizzi strangled PC Gordon Semple after meeting him on the gay cruising app.
The crystal meth addict copied a storyline from US crime drama Breaking Bad to try and dispose of the corpse in acid.
Brizzi also boiled and roasted parts of Gordon’s body and attempted to eat them with chopsticks at his flat in Southwark, South London.
Police were called by neighbours reporting foul smells six days after Gordon, 59, from Inverness, vanished in April last year.
Brizzi, dressed in sunglasses and pink underpants, opened the door to two female officers.
They found an acid-filled bath with flesh floating in it and a bucket with Gordon’s head inside.
Brizzi, a former Morgan Stanley merchant bank computer programmer, told the officers that Satan had ordered him to kill.
He was brought up in a devout Italian Catholic family but thought being homosexual meant he had been spawned by the devil.
He later changed his story and said Gordon had died accidentally after a leash round his neck slipped during bondage sex.
Brizzi said he dumped some body parts in the Thames and others in bins at his block of flats.
Jurors heard how Gordon liked to starve himself of oxygen during sex and swapped messages with Brizzi about masks and gags.
The court also heard the pair invited other men on Grindr to join them in a “chemsex” orgy.
But Brizzi told one caller: “We’re having a situation here. Someone fell ill but we’re taking care of it. So our party is cancelled.”
The jury found him guilty of murder by a majority of ten to two after 30 hours and 46 minutes.
After the sentencing Met Police Det Chief Supt Peter Ayling said Brizzi’s “cold, calculated actions are so grotesque they are beyond comprehension”.
Brizzi’s representative in court had blamed his actions on crystal meth, saying he was “utterly horrified” by his actions.
The killer was a member of a support group called Crystal Meth Anonymous where he shocked fellow addicts with tales of his sex life and his devil worshipping ways.
Brizzi told the group that he liked Satanic rituals, such as having sex over the sign of a pentagram, and that he was keen on domination, pain and sacrifice.
Brizzi was also obsessed with cult TV show Breaking Bad in which terminally ill chemistry teacher Walter White turns to making crystal meth to fund his treatment.
Brizzi’s profile picture on Facebook showed him in a Breaking Bad T-shirt, with a scene from the series as his background.
Despite attending the support group and joining a meditation class and an interpretative dance class, Brizzi was unable to kick his habit.
He said by April 2016 he was “resigned to the fact that during the weekends I was going to have some fun and I was going to use it”.
The story was originally published at the Sun
