'Then we went into the bathroom,' Meiwes later told police. Meiwes set the video camera rolling and went to work with a kitchen knife. Prime Video Direct Video.Ĭharacteristics: German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim that he had found via the Internet
The rest, as they say, is history…ĭecember 3, 2013. He was looking for a “young, well-built man who wanted to be eaten”. In March 2001, Armin Meiwes posted an advert on the internet. If convicted of murder, the cannibal faces life in prison, but only up to five years if he is sentenced to a lesser charge of "killing on demand.Armin Meiwes is a German cannibal killer who managed to not only fulfil his fantasies of eating another person, but he also managed to find a willing victim who enjoyed it…Įarning himself the frightening title of Der Metzgermeister (the Master Butcher) or “The Rotenburg Cannibal,” Armin Meiwes was a real-life Hannibal Lecter a man who found beauty in the culinary preparation of human flesh. Prosecutors acknowledge Brandes appeared to have been an accomplice in his own death and consumption, all of which Meiwes recorded on videotape, but they say the accused is still guilty of murder. But the former lover said he and Brandes, who had been a happy couple since 1999, would never had made such a request. Meiwes maintains Brandes wanted to consumed and that he requested his penis be cut off and eaten. The conflicting statements are crucial to the prosecution of the 42-year old Meiwes who, although he admitted to killing, carving up and eating Brandes in March 2001, denies committing murder. However, another former lover said later in the week that Brandes had never expressed a death wish or any desire for pain. On Monday, a former sexual partner of the victim, Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, testified that the dead man once offered 5,000 German marks ($2,600) to have his penis bitten off. The trial of Germany’s self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes continued this week in Kassel with the usual mix of bizarre testimony.
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