Extreme Hunger

English colonists founded Jamestown, Va., in 1607, making it the country’s first, permanent settlement. But not all was well in the colonial village. The winter of 1610 was so harsh that several residents dug up the recent-dead in order to avoid starvation. One man went even farther, killing his wife while she slept. He “fed upon her until he had clean devoured all parts saving her head.”