Unraveling of Rudy Eugne

Finally almost two months after the attack much has changed in the way this story is viewed. What was once the Miami Bath Salt Zombie is now somberly refered to as the MacArthur Causeway Attacker, the naked, growling, snareling, creature killed under by the road is now a man with a name, a face and a life. The Miami Herald's peice on Rudy Eugene finally returns a modicom of humanity to the man who started it all.

The Unraveling of Rudy Eugene

Presentation
Not as a monsterous Zombie Cannibal, but as a human being struggling to find his way, this is the image painted by The Miami Herald in this story on Rudy Eugne. Two months after he bit off the majority of a strangers face this piece attempts to humanize the attacker. The writing is somber, focusing on Rudy's family, his life before the attack and drug use, and the tragedy faced in the aftermath of May 26th.

Frames
The frame of this peice is that Rudy Eugene was a human being, not a monster, struggling with drug issues and brought down by them yes, but a human being attacked Ronald Papo underneath McCarther Causeway. When the story was sensationalized as the begining of the Zombie Apocalypse it was seen as a panic worthy warning, an issue that would consume us unless we knew that it could only be killed if the brain was destroyed. The truth may be more frightening as no one really knows how to solve the issues Rudy Eugene faced all his life, and as more and more follow suit it would appear that drugs and poverty might be a real threat that is trying to consume us.