Internet gay cannibalism net widens

expatica ^ | 7/17/03

[knak]

KASSEL - Prosecutors Thursday said they have filed a murder indictment against one of two gay men who met in an Internet chat room, where it allegedly was agreed that one of them would kill and devour the other.

And in a stunning new development, prosecutors in Kassel said they are broadening the investigation to include some 430 other persons believed to have been involved in the Internet gay cannibalism chat room that led to the death of a 42-year-old man in March 2001.

Prosecutors are convinced that the victim, a computer analyst from Berlin, agreed to be killed and eaten. His dismembered and partially devoured remains were found at the residence of a 41-year-old suspect.

That suspect, identified only as Armin M., has been charged with murder. Cannibalism per se is not a crime under German law.

Despite the fact that the victim willingly agreed to be killed, prosecutors said the case could not be considered "assisted suicide". So they opted for a murder indictment.

Prosecutors Thursday said the suspect has admitted videotaping himself killing the Berlin man, a computer chip developer at Siemens corporation, identified only as Bernd Juergen B.

On the morning of his disappearance from Berlin on March 9, 2001, Bernd Juergen B. completed his will. He left the bulk of his estate including a lavish penthouse apartment and EUR 50,000 worth of computer equipment to his live-in partner, a man named Rene.

According to police, the victim had several thousand dollars in cash and his passport when he travelled 300 kilometres from Berlin to the alleged murderer's house near Kassel.

Searching the rambling, 30-room, half-timbered house in the village of Rotenburg, investigators unearthed skeletal remains, some of them packaged in a freezer, along with videotapes and CD-ROMs on which the suspect allegedly recorded his actions.

Authorities were tipped off to the crime by internet surfers who stumbled upon chat room requests allegedly posted by the suspect in which he was looking for people willing to be slaughtered and eaten by him.

[Charles Henrickson]

From the hit song, "A Boy Named Stu."

[musical_airman]

As if I wasn't embarassed enough by my hometown team's shoddy play.......now this again.........ugh.........besides.......the guy never hit the racing pierogie's they have running around PNC park!

P.S. the preceding post has nothing to do whatsoever with internet gay cannibalism....except for what you don't know about that sausage in lederhosen!!!

[this_ol_patriot]

So what's wrong with eating fruit?

[ALASKA]

From the hit song, "A Boy Named Stu Stew."

[drhogan]

cannibals are people too, and should be treated with respect. however, we should pass laws that all of the people to be eaten MUST be raised on free-range farms and are not given excessive hormones and antibiotics. HELP PROTECT AMERICA'S AND GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY!!!

[hellinahandcart]

Oh, we're going to get blamed for this. First, for the existence and trial publicity of Jeffrey Dahmer, and then for Hollywood producing "Silence of the Lambs".

Clearly this is the fault of American culture!

[hellinahandcart]

Internet gay cannibalism chat room

Obviously they've learned prejudice and segregation from us, too-- they don't welcome heterosexual cannibals? That's not very inclusive. It practically borders on xenophobia. What about diversity???

[txzman]

Will this catch on in the US? (just wondering.....)

[gd124]

I doubt it's specifically a crime under American law either. What's your point?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

More homosexuals are crazy ping

[Tribune7]

I think our Supreme Court will find a way to make this Constitutionally protected behavior.

[AD from SpringBay]

Sexuality of peace alert.

[Calvin Locke]

Perhaps the title of the post should be:

Internet gay cannibalism net widens, or A Modest Proposal

[lawdude]

Two cannibals are sitting and eating. One says to the other, "How's it going?" "I'm having a ball." says the cannibal.

"You are eating too fast!"

[GreatOne]

To riff off of an old George Carlin joke, isn't "internet gay cannibalism" three words which you never, ever thought would be strung together in the same sentence? Sort of like "virtuous and honest Hitler Clinton."

[knak]

this is such a grose story!

[weegee]

Laws will vary by state but this is in the Texas penal code:

§ 42.08. Abuse of Corpse

(a) A person commits an offense if, not authorized by law, he intentionally or knowingly:

(1) disinters, disturbs, removes, dissects, in whole or in part, carries away, or treats in a seriously offensive manner a human corpse;

(2) conceals a human corpse knowing it to be illegally disinterred;

(3) sells or buys a human corpse or in any way traffics in a human corpse; or

(4) transmits or conveys, or procures to be transmitted or conveyed, a human corpse to a place outside the state.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Renumbered from § 42.10 by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

It can cover grave robbing, necrophilia, and cannibalism (of a dead body).

Additionally the sale of human flesh (tissue) is prohibited:

§ 48.02. Prohibition of the Purchase and Sale of Human Organs

(a) "Human organ" means the human kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, eye, bone, skin, fetal tissue, or any other human organ or tissue, but does not include hair or blood, blood components (including plasma), blood derivatives, or blood reagents.

(b) A person commits an offense if he or she knowingly or intentionally offers to buy, offers to sell, acquires, receives, sells, or otherwise transfers any human organ for valuable consideration.

(c) It is an exception to the application of this section that the valuable consideration is: (1) a fee paid to a physician or to other medical personnel for services rendered in the usual course of medical practice or a fee paid for hospital or other clinical services; (2) reimbursement of legal or medical expenses incurred for the benefit of the ultimate receiver of the organ; or (3) reimbursement of expenses of travel, housing, and lost wages incurred by the donor of a human organ in connection with the donation of the organ.

(d) A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 40, § 1, eff. Aug. 26, 1985. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, § 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.

[drhogan]

for all of you interested in cannibalism, whether gay or straight:
the US Public Health Service has pointed out that AIDS can be transmitted by eating an infected person, so you should always practice SAFE EATING and put a large body condom over your dinner before eating him or her (or it, if you are one of those perverts who are into animals).

[Skooz]

But what if you cook it at a high temperature? Wouldn't that kill the virus? What about microwave gay man parts?

[weegee]

Here are some more details from the case (this sure has taken awhile to come to trial).

Court TV Crime Library - Sexual Cannibalism

Another more recent example of sexual cannibalism is the case surrounding Armin M in Rotenburg, Germany. In March 2001, Armin placed an advertisement on the Internet for handsome men from eighteen to thirty-years old to be slaughtered and eaten. Surprisingly, a forty-two-year old microchip engineer from Berlin, Bernd Juergen Brandes, responded to the offer and shortly thereafter traveled to Rotenburg to meet Armin.

Following the man's arrival at Armin's house, they mutually agreed to amputate his penis, which was flambéed and fried and then consumed by both Armin and his victim. Armin then killed the man, cut up a portion of his body, froze it and buried the rest in his backyard. In an article titled Bizarre Cannibal Killing Shocks Germany from Reuters News Agency, police stated that the act stemmed from "cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies shared by both men."