The thousands of Chinese soup variations available proved inadequate for a couple in Sichuan when their daughter’s psychiatric problems became too much to bear. It’s reported that the mother, Lin Zongxiu, was told that soup made with a man’s head could help cure her 25 year old girl’s craziness. So obviously there was only one solution: ask for someone to knock out a drunk 76-year old sucker and behead him. The couple then gave their daughter soup made from the man’s head, and duck.

A court sentenced the murderer to death with a two-year reprieve two days ago. And Lin? Credited for her exciting culinary explorations, a suspended one-year jail sentence appeared to be in order.