Posted on 01/17/2006 5:08:19 PM PST by wagglebee
ARMIN MEIWES, the so-called Cannibal of Rothenburg, described to a horrified courtroom yesterday how he lit candles and laid out a white tablecloth and his best cutlery to dine on the dismembered corpse of a German software specialist.
“I wanted to eat him but not to kill him,” said Meiwes, 44. The computer technician was the first to speak in the retrial in Frankfurt of one of the most grisly criminal cases in modern Germany.
The victim, Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, and his future killer met over the internet, which has triggered legal confusion. Until the creation of chat rooms, it was statistically almost impossible for a cannibal to meet a willing victim. Brandes’s willingness emerged yesterday as Meiwes’s main defence. He is serving an 8½-year jail term for manslaughter but an appeals court has ruled that there is sufficient evidence for a murder conviction.
Meiwes, however, says that he assisted in a mercy killing. He told the court that he hoped his victim would either bleed to death or “jump out of a window” after he had cut off his penis. He tried to portray Brandes as suicidal.
After laying the engineer on a butcher’s table, Meiwes stabbed him in the throat, but he said yesterday that he had been sure his victim was dead.
However, a four-hour video recording of the butchery from a camera set up by Meiwes showed that Brandes was breathing shallowly before being stabbed. It will be the central piece of evidence in the retrial, expected to end in March.
The notion that this monster is alive is sickening.
Instead his victim joined him in eating it. This case boggles my mind. There are some f'ed up people out there.
Moral absolutes - homosexual agenda ping.
This monster is actually to disgusting to even classify as human.
Yeah, I agree.
We need to bring him over here and put him in the same prison Jeffrey Dahmer was in.
WHAT??????????
You forgot to add, Not that there's anything wrong with that!
(And no, we didn't try it.)
The canibal should have moved to Oregon
Out of the 16 gazillion people on earth, these two fringe elements manage to hook up and people get upset about it. Sure, it's disgusting, and yeah, BOTH of them should be dead. But even with all that room under the bell curve, there's going to be a handful that don't make it.
Post-Christian Europe = Pre-Christian Europe.
He should seek psychiatric help -- I recommend Dr. Hannibal Lecter, M.D.
EW!
A willing victim?
Yikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well i've heard of oscar meyer weiners before,
but not bernd brandes weiners. Are they kosher?
When this first became known, turned out there is a "cult" or "club" of homosexual wannabee cannibals and eatees in Europe, and, IIRC, some in the US.
Lord of the Flies, coming right up.
Wagglebee - freepmail coming your way.
You serious? The victim helped the cannibal eat himself (the victim)? Wow!
Not just a willing victim, but the two of them consumed the victim's penis.
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