He videotaped the entire event, beginning with Brandes’s arrival and ending with his dismemberment. He donned an apron, hung his lover’s body on a hook, and began to carefully remove and package the meat, which he stacked in his freezer beside a takeout pizza. Having fulfilled Brandes’s fantasy, Meiwes then indulged his own. He retrieved a knife from his kitchen, kissed Brandes, and stabbed his lover in the throat until he died. Hours later, the exsanguination not yet complete, Meiwes became impatient. Meiwes then ran Brandes a bath and read a Star Trek novel while the man bled out in his tub. They attempted to eat it together but found it too chewy.

Upon arriving at Meiwes’s home, Brandes ingested sleeping pills, painkillers, and half a bottle of Schnapps before Meiwes castrated him and flambéed his member. What transpired between the two men became one of the most infamous cases in German criminal history.

For his part, Brandes had long desired to be slaughtered and eaten a desire which intensified when his girlfriend ended their relationship after learning he was bisexual. Meiwes, a gay computer technician, had nurtured fantasies of consuming a blond “younger brother” since he was a kid. “No, you don’t exactly find it in the supermarket, unfortunately.”īrandes met Meiwes on The Cannibal Cafe-a now-defunct forum for anthropophagic fetishists-where he had responded to Meiwes’s advertisement for a “well-built man, 18–30, who would like to be eaten by me.” The men conversed for a few days and agreed to meet on March 9 at Meiwes’s mansion near Rotenburg, Germany.

“So I’m the first? You have eaten human flesh before, or you haven’t?” “Unfortunately, only in my dreams,” answered Meiwes, “but in my thoughts I do it every night.” Have you slaughtered a man before?” Bernd-Jürgen Brandes wrote to Armin Meiwes in a private chat on March 6, 2001.

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