Hours after his family members alerted police to a human head and two
hands they discovered stashed in metal tins, a Maryland man admitted
killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of
his brain, authorities said.

Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being
held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center after being
charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree
assault. Calls to his public defender Friday morning were not
immediately returned.

His roommate, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie,
had left his Joppatowne home six days earlier for an apparent early
morning jog. Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, he left his wallet, cell
phone and identification at home.

On Tuesday, Antony Kinyua --
Alexander Kinyua's father -- called a Harford County detective assigned
to the missing person's case and told him about his other son's gruesome
discovery.

According to the charging document, the other son
explained to the detective how he had come across two metal tins covered
by a blanket in the basement laundry room of Agyei-Kodie's Joppatowne
residence. He opened the tins and found the head and hands.

The
brother said he "confronted (Alexander Kinyua), who denied the remains
were human," then went upstairs to get his father, the detective said in
the charging document. When the father and son returned to the
basement, "the items he observed were gone and ... Alex Kinyua was
cleaning the container he observed them in."

Two Harford County detectives later arrived on the scene and discovered the head and hands on the home's main floor.

"He
admitted to killing our missing person, Mr. Kodie, and cutting him up
with a knife," Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told reporters
Thursday. "He further stated that he consumed Mr. Kodie's internal
organs -- specifically his heart and portions of his brain."

The
suspect told detectives to go to the parking lot of the nearby Town
Baptist Church, where they could -- and did -- find the rest of
Agyei-Kodie's remains in a dumpster.

The missing person's report
filed Saturday described the 37-year-old Agyei-Kodie as "very
intelligent." He had earned multiple master's degrees from schools in
Ghana and was also a graduate student at Morgan State University, even
though he wasn't taking classes there at the time of his death.

Kinyua
was affiliated with the same state university in Baltimore. The
engineering student was one of 175 people showcased in an August 2011
symposium run by the prestigious Los Alamos National Laboratory. His
study focused on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of "comfort
control" systems regulating heating, ventilation and air conditioning.