One year ago this Sunday, a 31-year-old Miami resident named Rudy Eugene spent some 18 minutes beating, stripping, and chewing the face off of a 65-year-old transient named Ronald Poppo.

It wouldn't be a new year without some media-escalated moral panic over a new and potentially dangerous intoxicant. Except 2012's hazard, a synthetic and cheap legal chemical sold as "bath salts"—varying compositions of mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), and methylone—did have some fairly harrowing consequences. Users who'd ingested too much recounted super-human strength, feelings of demonic possession, vibrantly nightmarish hallucinations; police reports featuring assailants suspected to be under the influence of bath salts documented rabid-animal behaviors like biting, kicking, and primal viciousness.

Ronald Poppo, the man who was rendered severely disfigured following an encounter with Rudy Eugene, known in the media as the "Miami Zombie" or the "Causeway Cannibal," spoke with Miami homicide detectives last month about his harrowing ordeal.

Toxicology experts and law-enforcement officials have questioned the results of toxicology tests which appear to show that Rudy Eugene, the so-called "Causeway Cannibal," had no other drugs besides marijuana in his system the day he attacked elderly homeless man Ronald Poppo on Miami's MacArthur Causeway.

Which dangerous, trendy nightmare drugs was Rudy "Miami Cannibal" Eugue "tripping balls" on when he tried to eat the face of 65-year-old Ronald Poppo in May? Was it "bath salts" — "the new LSD"? Or "Spice," the "synthetic marijuana"? Or was he on LSD, the "old LSD"? Or was it cocaine psychosis? Or was it all of the drugs at once?? Let's look at the coroner's report to find out:

The first post-surgery photos of 'Miami Zombie' attack victim Ronald Poppo were released this afternoon during a press conference at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

The last two weeks have been nothing but stories of homeless men being attacked by zombies, so it's nice to take a break from all that — and read about homeless men being attacked by vampires instead.

Though he was nicknamed the "Causeway Cannibal" in the aftermath of last month's disturbing attack, Rudy Eugene's autopsy report revealed that the so-called "Miami Zombie" had not actually swallowed any of Ronald Poppo's flesh prior to being shot and killed by a Miami police officer.

Miami police officers are being warned to proceed with caution "when dealing with the homeless population" following a second drug-fueled "zombie" attack in as many weeks.

Freddy Sharp knows first-hand what it feels like to lose it on "bath salts."

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy of "How to Pick Up Girls!" fame decided to hitch his prank-wagon to the resurrected zombie meme and run around the streets of Miami dressed as a brain-crazed ghoul.

Either stories about people consuming other people without permission are getting more play these days because everyone's come down with Zombie Fever, or Zombie Fever is a real thing that people have actually come down with and have subsequently become zombies.

Since news broke last Saturday that a Florida man was caught in the act of tearing into the face of another man with his teeth, people everywhere have been asking the same question: What the Hell happened?

A surveillance camera in the Miami Herald building caught all 18 gruesome minutes of the Miami Zombie attack on the MacArthur Causeway over the weekend. (The footage above has been edited for length; the original can be viewed here.)

The victim of Rudy Eugene's cannibalistic attack has been identified as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo. Poppo, a homeless man with a long criminal record, is still alive in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital. If you're feeling brave, you can take a look at what's left of his face here.

These two really, unbelievably gruesome photos, allegedly of the Miami man whose face was partially eaten off over Memorial Day weekend, have been circulating around the internet, because the sight of rended flesh is a visceral reminder of the unbearably thin dividing line between life and death, and also because they're really fucking gross.