Meiwes hung his body on a meat hook to drain, dismembered it on a butcher’s block, and placed his flesh in meal-sized portions in his freezer. Meiwes prayed for Brandes to regain consciousness, but then he stabbed him in the throat - killing him. While cannibalism wasn’t a crime in Germany at the time, murder was. Patrick PIEL/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Police cordon off the Armin Meiwes crime scene. He then drew Brandes a bath and left to read a Star Trek book, checking on Brandes every 15 minutes. After accidentally burning the penis, Meiwes ground it up and fed it to his dog. His continuous blood loss was so extreme that he went in and out of consciousness. Ultimately, Bernd Brandes only managed to gulp down one bite. Meiwes then fried it with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic - and Brandes’ own fat. He then used a kitchen knife and tried feeding it to Brandes but it was too tough to chew. First, Armin Meiwes tried satisfying Brandes’ request to bite the penis off but failed. State officials and bold internet sleuths have only seen what happened next. Meiwes made sure to videotape the ordeal, with Brandes saying, “Now do it.” Brandes briefly backed out of the agreement but then swallowed 20 sleeping pills, cough syrup, and a bottle of schnapps to go through with it. Public Domain Bernd Brandes in an undated photo.Īfter stopping at a pharmacy for painkillers, the men arrived at Meiwes’ house and had sex. He bought a one-way ticket to Kassel, where Meiwes was waiting to drive him to his house. He had sold all his personal belongings, including a sports car, and erased his hard drive before the big day. I’ve already considered catching a young person from the street.” The Rotenburg Cannibal Devours His VictimĪrmin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes continued exchanging passionate messages online until March 9, when Brandes took the day off work. Except for a pair of knees and some fleshy trash (skin, cartilage, tendons), there won’t be much of you left…I’ll dry out the knees and grind them up soon after…You won’t be the last, hopefully. “After you’re dead, I’ll take you out and expertly carve you up. According to Harper’s, he agreed to Meiwes’ proposal, which read in part: That user was Siemens engineer Bernd Jürgen Brandes - and he was prepared to be slaughtered. On March 6, 2001, however, he chatted with a user named “Cator99” who said he wanted his penis bitten off and to be killed. And Meiwes even turned one man down who wanted to be beaten to death - which Meiwes considered “weird,” according to The Daily Mail. While Meiwes met several men in hotel rooms to role-play the act, none agreed to go through it. His urges only grew after he found a “second life” with like-minded people online.Īrmin Meiwes posted on The Cannibal Cafe as “Antrophagus” or “Franky” and succeeded in finding gay men with cannibalistic fetishes.
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Meiwes now had free rein over the expansive property and spent an entire year reading serial killer biographies. According to The Irish Times, his fascination grew into adulthood but truly came to a head when his mother died in 1999. Meiwes invented an imaginary brother named Franky to share his cannibalistic thoughts with somebody. He recalled struggling as the newfound “man of the house” and first pondered eating his classmates as a schoolboy.
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The Cannibal Cafe Before he became the Rotenburg Cannibal, Meiwes posted under various pseudonyms including “Franky” and “Antrophagus.” Raised in a 44-room farmhouse by his single mother, Waltraud Meiwes, he became obsessed with true crime and carnal taboos. While he had two half-brothers on his father’s side, the patriarch and his two favorite children abandoned Meiwes when he was five years old. The flesh tastes like pork but stronger.” How Armin Meiwes Became The ‘Rotenburg Cannibal’Īrmin Meiwes was born on December 1, 1961, in Essen, Germany. And now I was getting the feeling that I was actually achieving this perfect inner connection through his flesh. I’d spent over 40 years longing for it, dreaming about it. “It was a feeling I can’t really describe.
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“The first bite was, of course, very strange,” Meiwes said in a 2016 interview with The Independent. So Brandes left his home in Berlin for Meiwes’ house in Rotenburg and took 20 sleeping pills to dull the pain of the amputation. When his mother died, the 39-year-old placed an ad on a now-defunct forum called The Cannibal Cafe for a “young, well-built man who wanted to be eaten.”Īnd after 43-year-old engineer Bernd Brandes replied with interest, Meiwes agreed. Thomas Lohnes/DDP/AFP/Getty Images Armin Meiwes ate 44 pounds of human flesh, including his victim’s penis.