On first glance, Armin Meiwes seems like your average German man. He’s a computer technician, mild-mannered and in jail. Oh, and he posted on Craigslist looking for a volunteer who he could eat.
Murderer Armin Meiwes, 58, has been leaving prisons for day trips in Germany He was given sunglasses and a hat to protect his identity before walking around In March 2001 Meiwes stabbed Bernd.
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- Simply starving: Cannibal Armin Meiwes and his voluntary victim The Internet has done a great many things, but it’s also been a part of a great many crimes over the years. We’ve all heard of the Craigslist Killer for example or the “ Cannibal Cop ”, who was convicted based on what he said online without doing the thing.
If you think that part of the story is weird, it gets weirder when you realize that someone actually agreed to the plan. With that, Meiwes fate was sealed in 2001 when he killed this man and ate the majority of his flesh. But Meiwes’ journey to prison was far from simple.
Curiosity killed the Craigslist man
In 2001, on the website The Cannibal Critic, Armin Meiwes made a post looking for someone to come over and let him eat him. Meiwes did not make anyone come against their will, and was waiting for a willing participant. In March 2001, engineer Bernd Jurgen Armando Brandes answered the call willingly, looking to join in.
On March 9th, 2001, the two recorded a video in Meiwes’ apartment, to capture the cannibalistic activity. First, Brandes took about 20 sleeping pills and drank and entire bottle of cough syrup. Meiwes then amputated Brandes’ penis, and the two attempted to eat it together. The experiment failed, and Meiwes fed the chunks to his dog.
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As blood loss was causing Brandes to fade in and out of consciousness, Meiwes drew a bath for his victim, checking in on him every 15 minutes. Finally, Meiwes put Brandes out of his misery, slicing his throat. Hanging him from a meat hook, Meiwes dismembered the corpse, storing meat in his freezer and slowly eating it over the next 10 months.
Catching a cannibal
Over a year and a half after the murder, Meiwes was finally arrested by police on charges of manslaughter. A college student alerted authorities to the post after copy cat posts popped up on the website. January 2004, he was found guilty of all charges and sentenced for eight years and six months in jail.
While in jail, he became a vegetarian, and discouraged anyone wanting to follow in his footsteps. “They should go for treatment, so it doesn’t escalate like it did with me.” It was clear he felt remorse for his actions, as his sexual kink went too far.
8 years to life
A year after Meiwes was convicted, a German court ordered a retrial on his case, arguing he was mischarged for manslaughter, and should’ve been charged with murder. Based on the video, it was clear he murdered out of sexual gratification, not just because Brandes wanted him to kill.
The court found him guilty of murder, and Armin Meiwes’ sentence increased from eight and a half years to life in prison. The main reason for life in prison was the prosecution argued that he still found cannibalism sexually appealing, and would attack again if free.
Meiwes, while disappointed in the decision, did acknowledge the truth of the prosecution’s statements. He is still serving his sentence to date, and still shows remorse for murdering Brandes.
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The Internet has done a great many things, but it’s also been a part of a great many crimes over the years. We’ve all heard of the Craigslist Killer for example or the “Cannibal Cop”, who was convicted based on what he said online without doing the thing. Nothing was quite so disturbing as the case of Armin Meiwes.
In 2001, Armin Meiwes, who worked as a computer technician, placed an ad online. He asked for a “young, well-built man who wanted to be eaten”. He wanted to fulfill a fantasy and, well, someone answered. This is that story.
A good neighbor
The thing about Meiwes is that he didn’t seem like the type of person to want to eat another. Anyone who delves into the world of true crime or watched an episode of Criminal Minds will tell you that doesn’t mean much. Meiwes had a good job, mowed his neighbor’s lawn, helped friends repair their cars, and hosted dinner parties.
Meiwes had a fantasy about cannibalism. He craved human flesh. So, like many people with a fantasy, he went online looking for someone who wanted to join him in it. So he went to a cannibal fetish website, which is a thing that exists, and posted an ad for a victim.
People answered, but many backed out when they realized that he was serious about it.
An engineer from Berlin named Bernd Jurgen Armando Brandes answered the ad. As much as Meiwes wanted to eat someone that was much as Brandes wanted to be eaten.
Dark fantasy fulfilled
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On March 9, Brandes went to Meiwes home where he took a fistful of sleeping pills and downed it with a half bottle of schnapps. He then laid down in Meiwes bathtub where Meiwes filmed everything. He started by severing Brandes’s penis and cooking it for them to share as Brandes wanted to try his own flesh.
Meiwes burned the appendage, however, and fed it to his dog. Brandes only had a bite of himself before the blood loss made him too weak to continue on. Meiwes then drew Brandes a bath, read a book, and checked on periodically to see if he died. When Brandes fell unconscious from blood loss, Meiwes stabbed him in the throat.
Brandes’s death took about four hours. Meiwes hung his body on a meat hook and got to work. Over the next ten months, Meiwes devoured over 40 pounds of Brandes flesh. He was finally caught in Dec. 2001 when a college student found a new ad Meiwes posted looking for a new victim. Police were called. Body parts and the videotape were found in Meiwes’ home.
Meiwes confessed to the murder and cannibalism.
What happened to Meiwes?
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Originally, Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Brandes. He was, however, tried for murder as the court felt the manslaughter conviction was not enough. It was believed that Meiwes would re-offend as he still had fantasies about consuming flesh. Meiwes was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006.
While in prison, Meiwes has become a vegetarian.
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