German Cannibal Not a Serial Murderer, Investigation Says

January 8, 2003

OTENBURG, GERMANY — The man in Germany accused of killing and eating a gay lover is not a serial murderer, an investigator said last week.

"There is no evidence of more than one murder having been committed," prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung said in Kassel. "It is a fact that the meat found at the scene of the crime is from the body of the victim and no one else."

But Jung cautioned that investigators are continuing to search a rambling 30-room half-timbered manor house in a wooded village on the outskirts of Rotenburg for clues.

Investigators are studying e-mails from the 41-year-old suspect, identified only as Armin M., who has admitted having videotaped himself killing the man he had met via a gay Internet chat room.

Authorities filed murder charges against the reclusive computer systems expert last month.

Police said his 42-year-old victim, a computer chip developer at Siemens corporation in Berlin identified only as Bernd Juergen B., willingly allowed himself to be led to the slaughter.

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