"It was important to him that his member be cut off and that he witness it," Meiwes said. In 2001, Armin Meiwes posted an advertisement on the website The Cannibal Café to find a willing participant to be. This is rather a disturbing story and in my opinion it’s better that the videos of this incident be kept from the public. "He was very intelligent and I didn't see any sign that he was disturbed." Meiwes filmed the killing and the video tape may be shown to the court.ĭefense lawyers have said the film shows Meiwes cutting off the victim's penis at the latter's request. It is impossible to find the video on the internet and even on DVD’s. "He told me he had had the desire since he was a child to be slaughtered and eaten," Meiwes said. Armin Meiwes (December 1st, 1961 - ) is a German man who achieved international notoriety for killing and eating a voluntary victim whom he had found via. He invited him to his elegant half-timbered home near Kassel and killed him with a kitchen knife in a "slaughtering room" he had built containing meat hooks, a cage and a butcher's table. He told how he made contact online with a 43-year-old Berlin computer specialist identified only as Bernd-Juergen B. His mother would follow him on play dates and later on romantic dates. The gaunt, bespectacled defendant said that during his upbringing alone with a dominant mother he had longed for a little brother he could make "part of me." Armin Meiwes was born in 1961 in Germany to a neglectful father and an over- dominating mother.
The trial is expected to last until the end of January and some 40 witnesses will be called, including some of Meiwes's Internet contacts. Meiwes was arrested in December 2002 after police received a tip-off from someone who had seen one of his Internet adverts seeking a slaughter victim. "With every piece of flesh I ate I remembered him," Meiwes, a self-assured and well-spoken computer repair man, told the judge. He ate about 44 pounds of the flesh, defrosting it bit by bit. In testimony so frank it drew gasps from the public gallery, Meiwes said he had kept his victim's skull and plastic bags of flesh in his freezer. Meiwes said there were "hundreds, thousands" of people seeking to fulfil their desires to eat humans or be eaten via Internet advertisements in forums called "Cannibal Cafe," "Guy Cannibals" and "Torturenet."
At the start of his murder trial in Kassel, central Germany, Armin Meiwes, 42, offered a full account of the killing that has gained him worldwide notoriety as "The Cannibal of Rotenburg" after the town where he lived.