Cannibals
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Over the next few weeks he defrosted pieces of his friend and cooked the flesh in olive oil and garlic. He managed to consume around 20 kg of Brandes’ flesh before the police eventually knocked on his door.
The police were tipped off by several people who had seen his advertisements on the internet. When they started to search Meiwes’ home they found neatly packaged body parts in a freezer in the kitchen. Each package was labelled with the specific body part. In the back garden police found other body parts buried because they were presumed inedible. Meiwes openly admitted to the police that the parts had belonged to Bernd Juergen Brandes who he met on the internet, but said that it wasn’t murder because Brandes had agreed ‘to be slaughtered’.
He told police that the two men had enjoyed a final meal together. Brandes had agreed to be castrated and the two sautéed his penis and testicles, which they washed down with a German white wine. Meiwes also gave the police a video tape he had recorded of the whole procedure. It showed that after the meal Brandes willingly allowed himself to be hanged from a butchers hook and slaughtered just as you would a calf.
During his trial Meiwes testified in his own defence saying that when he ate the body he felt that a part of Brandes was inside him. Investigators on the case discovered that Meiwes had been in internet contact with more than 200 people who shared his fantasies, while the cannibal himself claimed there were thousands more like him.
Armin Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years and six months in prison. Meiwes has said he plans to write his memoirs in order to persuade other people with similar fantasies to seek help before it is too late.
Sascha Spesiwtsew
With the help of his mother, Sascha killed and ate his hapless victims
Sascha Spesiwtsew was born in Nowokusnezk a town in Siberia. He spent his entire childhood living in fear of his abusive father, who not only tortured Sascha, but his entire family.
When he reached adulthood Sascha shared a flat with his mother and his beloved dobermann dog. Unfortunately Sascha had inherited the traits of his father, and his mother had to put up with his permanent abuse. His sister was extremely successful in her career, and worked as a secretary at the court for a famous judge.
The depth of Sascha’s brutality and atrocities was not disclosed until 1996, when it was uncovered by chance. No-one would have believed just how far his tendency to torturing would go.
A broken water-pipe had forced the neighbours to call a plumber. The plumber needed access to Sascha’s flat to stem the leak, but when no one answered the door, he had to break in by force. However he could not have been prepared for what he saw.
When he entered the flat the first thing the plumber noticed was blood covering the majority of the walls. In the kitchen there were bowls everywhere that contained pieces of human body. In the bath they found the mutilated body of a girl with the head missing, and another girl was found lying seriously wounded on the sofa. The plumber called an ambulance who took her to the hospital where she was able to tell the public prosecutor exactly what she had had to go through. Unfortunately, she died from the severity of her injuries 17 hours later.
Apparently Spesiwtsew’s mother had lured the girl, along with two other girls, into the flat where Sascha raped and continually hit them. He killed one of the girls and then forced the other two girls to cut her into pieces in the bathtub. Then Spesiwtsew’s mother cooked the girl’s body parts for dinner. The second girl was killed by Sascha’s dobermann who bit through her throat.
During a thorough search of the flat, the police found a notebook which contained details of the murders of 17 other girls.
Although Sascha had managed to escape over the balcony when he heard someone forcing the door, he was later caught as he attempted to rape a young girl.
Sascha Spesiwtsew was tried, along with his mother, and he was declared guilty in all 19 cases and sentenced to death. His mother, who denied complicity throughout, was sent to prison for life.
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