POLICE SCAN ALLEGED INTERNET SEX CANNIBAL'S VIDEOS

Reuters ^ | 12/12/02 | David Crossland

[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.

[shaggy eel]

,,, bratwurst bump.

[Texaggie79]

It's easy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[discostu]

Who said anything laughing? I said I thought it was freaking cool, which it is. I also think it's freaking cool that my Sophomore English teacher was a "retired" spook who disappeared right before or after anything interesting happened (before if it was planned by us like Grenada, after if we didn't see it coming like the bombing of the Marine base). Freaking cool doesn't necessarily equate to laughing.

[TD911]

Ich bin eat(a) Berliner!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What goes around comes around. Just remember that.

[Texaggie79]

You don't have to tell me twice, I have a killer cold :( DON'T LAUGH!!!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

You have a cold? HAHAHAHHAAHAHAH. LOL

[LO_IQ]

I read somewhere that a detached penis becomes very small since blood vessels make up most of the penis.

I wonder how small is a flambee detached penis.

[piasa]

There may be a problem with determining if both were really consenting... would a person on exctasy or LSD some other drug play along with this and not grasp what happened to him?

Was the one guy in a state of depression and wanted to die because of the chemical imbalance in the brain?

Can mentally defective adults' word of consent be considered legally binding in a case as extreme as murder?

Since the 'victim' is no longer around to be evaluated or to testify one way or another, it's impossible to determine if he was of sound mind. This would be the case in any situation where one person dies at the hands of another. For that reason it should be treated as murder even by libertarian standards. Murder is illegal; the definition of murder is killing a fellow human being. The only exceptions to taking human life are in self-defense and those powers granted to government by the people under the law. Murder isn't defined by the willingness or unwillingness of the victim, although perhaps some in the euthanasia crowd believe it should be. I don't know if they have an official stand on it and from what I understand, not all libertarians accept euthanasia, so certainly not all of them would accept this as a reasonable act of consenting adults to be protected because many know that it would make it easier to kill and get away with murdering competitors or political enemies, and that of course is a bigger threat to our liberties as a whole than if people are restricted from such insanity by law.

[Texaggie79]

It's com'in around........

[woofie]

New research shows cannibalism can cause oral cancer

[woofie]

I wonder how small is a flambee detached penis.

Not even a mouthful

[kstewskis]

Jeffrey Dahmer!

Some assembly required.

[strela]

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 ...

Short order cook, eh?

[f.Christian]

Some assembly required?

[kstewskis]

Parts...oh never mind... guess you had to be there, bad pun!

[ppaul]

Multicultural Diversity BUMP!

[DouglasKC]

As far as the homosexual consensual relationship is concerned, who cares? As long as it doesn't develop into criminal activity as eating people and such....

Whoa whoa whoa....pro drug legalization types are always telling us that the government has no right to tell us what we put into our bodies. If a guy wants to serve his hot dog to another guy consensually well then why not?

[ppaul]

Yeowww!

Sex, murder and cannibalism case stuns Germany

ROTENBURG/FULDA, GERMANY, 12-DEC-2002: This undated handout picture shows computer technician Armin M., 41, of Rotenburg near Kassel who allegedly killed and ate a 42-year-old Berlin microchip engineer who answered his ad on Internet seeking a consenting victim, according to press reports December 12, 2002. The alleged slaying was said to have been collaboratively filmed in video, supposedly beginning with the amputation and frying of the victim's penis. [Photo copyright 2002 by AFP and ClariNet] </CLARI-ITEM CAPTION>

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Still holdin' yer beer, or have you sicked it up all over yer keyboard?