SHOCKER: Facebook 'Cannibal': Shocking pictures of satanist 'who killed and ate woman' brandishing weapons

Devil worshipper allegedly killed a woman, chopped her up and ate her in a gruesome ritualistic murder.

Gregory Hale, 37, had only just met Lisa Hyder, 36, when he attacked her before beheading her and putting her hands and feet in a bucket, officers said.

When the ex-slaughterhouse worker was arrested they said he admitted killing her and eating part of her body.

Suspected cannibal Hale’s Facebook page is littered with images and descriptions of blood, gore and killing.

He posted a series of pictures of himself holding long-bladed knives and other weapons on the site, in some of them wearing masks.

He wrote: “I hug the people I hate so I know how big to dig the hole in my back yard.”

Two months ago he talked about eating a vegetarian, writing: “would tha vegetarian taste like that fake soy meat like they got in sum fast food places???”

The American also said he wished he could have met serial killer and rapist Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, who died in a California prison last June.

Several posts and pictures are about the metal band Slayer.

Hale, of Coffee County in Tennessee, met Lisa last Friday and officers believe he killed her at his home later that day.

He was arrested on Sunday after he asked a friend to help dispose of the body.

His former slaughterhouse colleagues described him as “bizarre” and said he took animals’ eyeballs, blood and bones home.

A friend said he was a self-proclaimed satanist who was fired after his boss found him carrying out a ritual with animal parts.

His victim, mother-of-six Lisa, had recently been diagnosed with ovarian cancer while battling longstanding alcohol addiction.

Her family tonight said they would push for the death penalty if Hale was convicted of her murder.

Her father Billy Poore said: "My daughter was mangled, butchered and chopped up like a liver. There's nothing left."

Her estranged husband, from whom she separated last year, said he spent the weekend trying to reach his ex-wife so their children, the youngest of them just a year old, could have their daily chat with her.

Charlie Hyder said: "I still blame myself because I didn't go get her, but I was down in Huntsville unloading my truck, and I wished I could have been there a little bit faster.

"Usually I rescue her every time something goes wrong."

Hale is being held in jail £900,000 bond and is due to face court on June 23, charged with murder and abuse of a corpse.