

Undeterred, Meiwes met a sixth man, Stefan, and got to the stage of hanging him from a meat-hook in his house. The next man, named Alex, wanted to be beheaded, but Meiwes refused on the grounds that he would be "too fatty to eat." According to Meiwes they ended up just fooling around, eating pizza and drinking beer. His name was Andreas and his fantasy was to be picked up in a cattle truck by Armin wearing rubber boots and then slaughtered like a pig, however, he backed out after he had been wrapped in Clingfilm ready to be killed. The fourth man to respond got as far as meeting Meiwes. Nevertheless, Meiwes continued to advertise. This suggestion proved rather too much for the would-be cannibal, and he dismissed Matteo, saying that he found him "a bit weird." Another man was one who claimed to be able to provide a young boy to eat, however, he later claimed he would have to back down on the offer since the boy was being eaten at a Russian Orthodox feast. Matteo was a masochistic homosexual who wanted Meiwes to burn his testicles with a blow torch before nailing him to the floor and whipping him to death. Meiwes covered him in oil and had begun to mark the man out for butchery, attaching labels such as " loin" and " steak" to him with pins, when Jose complained of feeling ill and asked to be released. The first was a thirty-two year-old man named Borg Jose, he came to meet Meiwes and, having agreed on the procedure, removed his clothes and allowed himself to be suspended from a meat hook and then laid on a table for preparation. He posted more messages, saying he would prefer a blond man whose " delicious flesh" he could eat. He later claimed it was in a fit of madness, but, the longer the advertisement stayed up, the more he fantasised and the more serious he became. "I am looking for a young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter." In 2000, Meiwes posted the following on several message boards: Most people were of course just fantasists and roleplayers and were keen to point this out, but, of the hundreds of members, Meiwes believed there might be some who were genuine. Through these sites that catered to those with unusual fetishes, Meiwes found his way into various forums for people interested in cannibalism.

He also developed an interest in internet pornography, particularly that which featured torture and pain. After the funeral, he constructed a shrine to her, complete with a plastic manikin that he would lie down on a pillow every night. The death of his mother devastated Meiwes. His mother died in 1999, leaving the now adult Meiwes alone in the large family mansion, his fantasies intensified. At some point, between the ages eight and twelve, Armin developed the desire to have someone who "was a part of him." He fantasised about eating his friends, and possibly even Franky. This desire for a sibling was the catalyst for his first cannibalistic thoughts. He had blond hair and listened to Armin, something his mother never did. It was because of this sheltered, near fatherless childhood, that the young Armin created Franky.įranky was Armin's imaginary younger brother. On the few occasions that he went out with girls his mother insisted on accompanying him, and when he performed his military service in the 1980s, she even invited herself out with the troops. She humiliated the young Armin by admonishing him loudly in public and insisting on accompanying him everywhere. His father, a rather stern man, tended to ignore him and his mother became the dominant person in his life.

Warning: Some of the details to follow are graphic and violent, some readers may find them disturbing.īorn near the German town of Kassal in 1961, Armin Meiwes had a very lonely childhood. The comparatively light sentence drew public outcry He intended to spend his time in jail writing his memoirs. He was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison.

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After a gruesome but revealing trial he was found guilty of manslaughter because his victim had consented to the killing. Described as polite and genial by those who knew him, Armin Meiwes, a computer technician, is the self confessed cannibal who gripped the media in Germany and indeed the world in late 2003 when he was arrested on a charge of the murder of Bernd-Juergen Brandes.
