Great Falls, Montana - Only bits of the horror story surrounding Nathaniel Bar-Jonah will come out in the trial that begins next week.
The jurors, who will be chosen starting on Tuesday, will hear allegations that he sexually assaulted three boys at his Great Falls home - how he allegedly locked one in a room, handcuffed another to a staircase, and hung a third from the kitchen ceiling with a rope to watch him choke.
But all of that pales in comparison to what the jury will not hear.
Prosecutors have agreed not to bring up Bar-Jonah's convictions for kidnapping and molesting other boys in Massachusetts. They will not mention his two years in prison and 11 years in a mental hospital there after one attack, or his coded writings about eating human flesh.
Most of all, there will be no mention of Zachary Ramsay, the 10-year-old Great Falls boy whom Bar-Jonah is accused of kidnapping and murdering in 1996.
Prosecutors believe he butchered the boy and served his remains to neighbours.
A different jury in a different city will hear all that in May, when Bar-Jonah is tried in Zach's slaying.
The Butte trial will be limited to the kidnapping and sexual assault charges involving the three boys, aged six, nine and 15.
Police investigating those allegations say they found encrypted letters by Bar-Jonah that talked about "little boy stew" and "lunch is served on the patio with roasted child".
Because of the cannibalism allegations, Judge Kenneth Neill ruled that Bar-Jonah, 45, would not get a fair trial in Great Falls. He moved the sexual assault trial to Butte, 240km south of here, and the murder trial to Missoula, 257km to the west.
Under a 1991 plea agreement with Massachusetts prosecutors in connection with yet another assault on a boy, Bar-Jonah was allowed to move to Montana with his mother.
Authorities in Montana were outraged to learn of the deal after Bar-Jonah's arrest in that state. - Sapa-AP