GERMANY: POLICE STUDY HOME VIDEOS MADE BY A SEX CANNIBAL WHO APPARENTLY KILLED ANS ATE HIS WILLING VICTIM

Record ID: 335747

  • Title: GERMANY: POLICE STUDY HOME VIDEOS MADE BY A SEX CANNIBAL WHO APPARENTLY KILLED ANS ATE HIS WILLING VICTIM
  • Date: 12th December 2002
  • Summary: (U6) ROTENBURG, GERMANY (DECEMBER 12, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN OF THE HOUSE WHERE THE MURDER OCCURED, SEALED OFF BY POLICE LINE 0.10 2. SV: FORENSIC EXPERT WITH ATTACHE CASE CROSSING POLICE LINE 0.25 3. SCU: (SOUDBITE) (German) A ROTENBURG RESIDENT (asked whether he expected anything like that in Rotenburg) SAYING: "No, I did no
  • Embargoed: 27th December 2002 12:00
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  • Location: ROTENBURG & KASSEL & BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7I5WD7YXEJSSKBBDM7QKNL5M2
  • Story Text: German police are watching home videos made by a sex
    cannibal who apparently 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.


    The 41-year-old man has been remanded in custody after
    confessing to the killing, which followed a ritual in which
    both he and the victim nibbled at the victim's severed penis.

    The accused killed the 42-year-old male with deep cuts to
    the neck, and chopped the body into pieces which he froze and
    later ate, prosecutors said, adding that they were treating
    the case as murder.

    The accused has not been identified but media reported he
    is a computer technician.

    A prosecutor said he was not undergoing any psychiatric treatment.

    Police said they were conducting a thorough search of the
    killer's elegant half-timbered home in the town of Rotenburg
    in central Germany, where they have already found deep-frozen
    human flesh, bones and video recordings of the deed.

    A Rotenburg resident said he was surprised.

    "No, I did not. I heard about it on TV last night and
    asked myself what was happening here. But I don't know more
    than that," the man said as he stood outside the house - the
    scene of the crime.

    The accused had found the apparently willing victim
    through an advertisement posted on the Internet, the state
    prosecutor's office in Kassel said. One newspaper reported the
    advert read: "Seeking young, well-built 18 to 30-year-old for
    slaughter."
    The court prosecutor explained details of the crime to
    Reuters.

    "He is accused of killing a then 42-year-old man man with
    his consent in front of a video camera.

    The assailant and the victim met via an internet advertisement placed by the
    accused.

    Both have cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies.

    The victim then allegedly contacted the accused and later the
    crime happened
    After the assailant had killed his victim he
    then chopped up the body, stored portions of human flesh in a
    freezer and buried the rest of the body in the garden,"
    Hans-Manfred Jung said.

    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 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 was killed in prison in November 1994.

    The difference is that the German cannibal's victim was
    supposedly willing.


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