The German officials raided his house, finding his horrible video tapes, the frozen body parts, and the used kill-room. Eventually, as his man-meat was running low, Armin Meiwes put out another advertisement, and this time, it got him in trouble. Meiwes ate this meat for months and even ground the bones into flour. The sex, the agreement to kill and eat Brandes, him saying he was willingly surrendering his life, and even the killing and slaughter of the body to bite-sized portions. They corresponded through letters together, then met in person, had lots of sex apparently, and recorded a video tape. So, Brandes and Armin Meiwes got to know each other. He agreed to be killed and eaten, but Brandes included the one request you’d expect in such circumstances he wanted to eat his own penis first. His name was Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes, and he was a German engineer. The second one got scared and backed out at the last minute, and the third one was just right. The first one was too fat, so Meiwes didn’t go for it. It said what you’d expect: “looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed.” Since this is humanity we’re talking about, he had volunteers. You see, in 2001, this German computer repair technician (I’m looking at you, Brent…) put an ad on a cannibal website, like you do. On this episode of The Sofa King Podcast, we turn our gaze to some true crime and talk about the bizarre and horrible case of Armin Meiwes, aka the “Rotenburg Cannibal.” Meiwes is a murderer.
Professor Stolpmann described Meiwes as "extremely smug and self-assured" and as having a "schizoid personality" - but said he detected no indication of mental illness.Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Investigators found 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 VIDEO CANIBAL TRIAL
Meiwes insisted throughout the trial that the death had been part of a mutual pact rooted in sado-masochistic homosexual fantasy.īut he said he hoped other people with similar fantasies would seek help before it was too late. In eating Mr Brandes, he finally got his "big kick", he told his trial.Īccording to a psychiatrist who testified at the trial, Professor Georg Stolpmann, Meiwes was incapable of showing "warm and tender feelings towards others".
Meiwes claimed in court that his lonely childhood had led him to create "Franky" - an imaginary brother who listened to him.Īt the start of his trial in December 2003, Meiwes said his motive for killing and eating his victim, Bernd Juergen Brandes, was born from a desire for this younger brother he never had - "someone to be part of me".
Living alone with her son until her death, she constantly intruded, accompanying him on dates and even going on troop outings in the early 1980s when he was serving in the German army. Meiwes grew up with his mother in a large house in the German town near Kassel.Ī former school friend recalls her as a domineering figure who scolded him in public. In the previous trial, prosecutors say he should have been jailed for life for murder, while his defence team maintains the death was a mercy killing as the victim was a willing participant. The details of the case were re-examined after a federal court ruled that his conviction for manslaughter should be overturned because the sentence - eight-and-a-half-years in jail - was too lenient. A woman who knew Meiwes described him as "very childlike"īefore the media dubbed him "The Cannibal of Rotenburg", Armin Meiwes led an outwardly quiet life, described by one woman he befriended as a friendly and sensitive person.īut in the prosecutor's words, the well-spoken 42-year-old computer technician "slaughtered his victim like a piece of livestock and treated him as an object of his fancy".