Posted on 12/12/2002 9:50:27 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Police Scan Alleged Internet Sex Cannibal's Videos
By David Crossland
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are watching home videos made by an alleged sex cannibal who reportedly shared a last meal of flambeed penis with his willing victim before carving him up and freezing the man's remaining body parts to eat later.
Prosecutors in Kassel said Thursday that the 41-year-old suspect, who has confessed, was not being treated as insane.
Germany's more sensational newspapers were packed with lurid details. Police arrested the man after he posted an Internet ad seeking another male volunteer to satisfy his appetites.
"We're watching the videotapes and searching his house. There are several tapes," said a spokesman for police combing the suspect's elegant half-timbered home in the picturesque town of Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda, near Kassel, Thursday.
They had already found deep-frozen human flesh and bones as well as video recordings of the exceptionally bizarre crime.
Prosecutors, who first announced the murder investigation Wednesday, have named neither the victim nor suspect. But German media have quoted investigators identifying the dead man as "Bernd Juergen B." and the alleged killer as "Armin M."
"He's in normal custody at the moment. He is regarded as capable of standing trial," Kassel prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung said.
Amending some details first given Wednesday, prosecutors said the accused was 41 and the victim a 42-year-old man from Berlin. They believe the killing dates back to March last year.
Both men were computer technicians, German newspapers said.
"The deed appears to stem from cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies shared by both men," police said Wednesday in a statement so grisly in its detail that the nation's biggest selling newspaper, Bild, reprinted it word for word.
"The accused supposedly first cut off the penis of the victim by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together," the statement continued.
Police declined comment on reports that they first flambeed the organ in spirits, then, after tasting it, decided to fry it.
The suspect then killed his companion with deep cuts to the neck and chopped the body into pieces that he froze and later ate, prosecutors said.
Bild's giant front-page headline ran: "Cannibal Devours Berliner." To Germans, a Berliner is also a jam doughnut.
The dead man apparently replied to an ad posted on the Internet, prosecutors said. One newspaper said it read: "Seeking young, well-built 18- to 30-year-old for slaughter."
The killing revives memories of previous cases of cannibalism, both fictional and real, such as Hannibal Lecter, the serial murderer created by author Thomas Harris.
Real-life U.S. killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to several life terms for the murders of 17 young men and boys in a 13-year, necrophilous rampage of dismemberment and cannibalism. Dahmer was killed in prison in November 1994.
It is Germany's second headline-grabbing murder case this year after a young couple was jailed in January for killing a friend and stabbing him 66 times in a Satanic ritual.
That trial fascinated Germany and Britain, where one of the killers first developed her obsession, and gave the tabloids a field day with details of blood-sucking and devil worship.
Do you conclude that the 'victim' was not all there solely from the fact that he did something really bizarre, painful and stupid by your standards?
Apparently, the victim was an employed computer engineer. So he was together enough to hold a responsible job. Does that change your conclusion?
What if everyone that knew him agreed he was odd, but fully capable of making decisions for himself? Does that change your conclusion?
SPOILER WARNING and GROSS-OUT WARNING
...ties a string tightly around the base. After a while it goes completely numb, then he whacks it off with a razor. No blood. After the scabs formed, he untied the string. (Don't try this at home.)
We agree on that. But the rest of your post really cuts against the argument that these guys were unable to make a choice.
By pointing to Ted Bundy, you really make my point. Bundy was smart, together, personable and clearly in control of his life and able to make choices and to understand them. It's just that the choices he made were very very evil.
The victim here looks somewhat like a masochist's version of Ted Bundy. Employed, responds to an ad appropriately (ie he got what the ad promised) and participated voluntarily in the slaughter and the rest of that sick stuff voluntarily. My take on this is that the guy was able to make and understand his choices, its just that, like Bundy, his choices were also evil.
We give Bundy a trial and an execution precisely because he understands his choices. Of course, Bundy's choices did not involve choice by his victims.
That's what makes this article interesting. There was clearly no coercion and the victim seems perfectly capable of making choices and understanding them.
It seems to me that Libertarians ought to be giving the victim here the right to make his own choices, no matter how weird, as long as they don't hurt someone else.
After all, the perp here looks like he is just helping the victim in an assisted suicide--a really weird one, but an assisted suicide nevertheless. In that case, why should Libertarians put the perp in jail?
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Horse hockey. A killing and cannibalism would be fine according to libertarian principles if the actors were consenting adults.
Exactly. How do they put it at Liberty Forum? "Ain't nobody's business if you do."
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