Cannibal Hungry For More

Dec. 8, 2003

A German cannibal was trying to find a second person to eat after devouring his first victim, a court has heard.

Armin Meiwes wrote to a friend to tell him he had nearly stripped Bernd-Juergen Brandes of all his edible parts shortly after murdering him.

"I hope I will soon find another victim, the flesh has almost all gone," he wrote in an email to a friend.

And he even intended to share the meat of his first victim with his new find - before slaughtering him as well.

Internet

Meiwes denies murder but admits killing and eating a man.

The 42-year-old computer technician met Brandes on the internet and claims the victim gave his consent to be killed and eaten.

Meiwes told police he was on the prowl for another victim when arrested.

"I'd just like to say that I didn't kill anyone else although I would have done if the chance had presented itself," he told police when questioned.

The court case, in Kassel, has riveted Europe.

The jury has heard how Meiwes advertised on the internet for someone to kill and eat.

Freezer

Brandeson came forward and the pair ate the engineer's penis before Meiwes filmed the murder.

He insists Brandes agreed to be killed and eaten.

Brandes's body was cut up and stored in a freezer.

Meiwes faces life in jail if convicted of the main charge of murder for sexual satisfaction.

Defence lawyers argue that he is guilty only of "killing on demand", which is punishable by up to five years in prison.

The trial continues.

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