Man Who Murdered, Dismembered And Ate Grindr Date's Severed Testicles Faces Life In Prison

A Michigan man who pleaded guilty to murdering and cannibalizing a student he met on a dating app three years ago will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

On Thursday, Shiawassee County Circuit Judge Matthew J. Stewart sentenced Mark David Latunski, 53, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Law & Crime reported.

Latunski pleaded guilty in September to one count of open murder as well as a count of disinterment and mutilation of a dead body in connection to the death of 25-year-old University of Michigan-Flint student Kevin Bacon.

Bacon was found murdered inside Latunski's Bennington Township home on Dec. 28, 2019, after he went missing on Christmas Eve that year.

His remains were hanging upside-down by a rope from the ceiling of a hidden room inside the residence, according to police.

Bacon met Latunski earlier that month on the dating app Grindr.

Latunski ended up admitting to stabbing Bacon and slitting his throat, authorities said. He also confessed that he cut off and ate the victim's testicles.

Latunski told police that Bacon asked to be killed, according to an Mlive report from 2020.

The judge sentenced Latunski to life in prison on his murder charge, while he received another 10 years for the disinterment charge. Both sentences will run concurrently.

"I know nothing can ease your suffering and I know that the weight of your pain is without measure. But it is my goal that perhaps today's sentence will be a small amount of comfort in what I know is an enormity of hurt," the judge said during Thursday's sentencing as he addressed Bacon's family members.

A social worker also read aloud an impact statement from Bacon's mother, Pamela Vanhorn.

"Our family has been torn apart from all of the pain and confusion we endured from losing our son, and our daughter losing her brother. I don't understand why anyone could want to hurt my son, especially in such a horrific and unbelievable way," the statement read.

"Even though we will finally get justice for Kevin, it still doesn't feel like enough, and you still get to live and do things because a pig like you can never have remorse," it added.

Latunski declined to make any comment before his sentence, The Detroit News reported.