Austin Harrouff: The Cannibal Killer
12 min readJul 5, 2021
In the summer of 2016, my brother, now a former journalist, moved with his family to the Treasure Coast of Florida to write for a local newspaper. One of the very first major stories to come his way was that of Austin Harrouff, a 19-year-old Florida State University (FSU) student who killed two people and severely injured one in a frenzied, cannibalistic attack.
