Posted on 12/12/2002 9:50:27 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Police Scan Alleged Internet Sex Cannibal's Videos
By David Crossland
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are watching home videos made by an alleged sex cannibal who reportedly shared a last meal of flambeed penis with his willing victim before carving him up and freezing the man's remaining body parts to eat later.
Prosecutors in Kassel said Thursday that the 41-year-old suspect, who has confessed, was not being treated as insane.
Germany's more sensational newspapers were packed with lurid details. Police arrested the man after he posted an Internet ad seeking another male volunteer to satisfy his appetites.
"We're watching the videotapes and searching his house. There are several tapes," said a spokesman for police combing the suspect's elegant half-timbered home in the picturesque town of Rotenburg-an-der-Fulda, near Kassel, Thursday.
They had already found deep-frozen human flesh and bones as well as video recordings of the exceptionally bizarre crime.
Prosecutors, who first announced the murder investigation Wednesday, have named neither the victim nor suspect. But German media have quoted investigators identifying the dead man as "Bernd Juergen B." and the alleged killer as "Armin M."
"He's in normal custody at the moment. He is regarded as capable of standing trial," Kassel prosecutor Hans-Manfred Jung said.
Amending some details first given Wednesday, prosecutors said the accused was 41 and the victim a 42-year-old man from Berlin. They believe the killing dates back to March last year.
Both men were computer technicians, German newspapers said.
"The deed appears to stem from cannibalistic and homosexual tendencies shared by both men," police said Wednesday in a statement so grisly in its detail that the nation's biggest selling newspaper, Bild, reprinted it word for word.
"The accused supposedly first cut off the penis of the victim by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together," the statement continued.
Police declined comment on reports that they first flambeed the organ in spirits, then, after tasting it, decided to fry it.
The suspect then killed his companion with deep cuts to the neck and chopped the body into pieces that he froze and later ate, prosecutors said.
Bild's giant front-page headline ran: "Cannibal Devours Berliner." To Germans, a Berliner is also a jam doughnut.
The dead man apparently replied to an ad posted on the Internet, prosecutors said. One newspaper said it read: "Seeking young, well-built 18- to 30-year-old for slaughter."
The killing revives memories of previous cases of cannibalism, both fictional and real, such as Hannibal Lecter, the serial murderer created by author Thomas Harris.
Real-life U.S. killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to several life terms for the murders of 17 young men and boys in a 13-year, necrophilous rampage of dismemberment and cannibalism. Dahmer was killed in prison in November 1994.
It is Germany's second headline-grabbing murder case this year after a young couple was jailed in January for killing a friend and stabbing him 66 times in a Satanic ritual.
That trial fascinated Germany and Britain, where one of the killers first developed her obsession, and gave the tabloids a field day with details of blood-sucking and devil worship.
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Read the story -- it was on tape. They tried it flambeed, and then decided to fry it up instead. Sounds like it really was consensual -- which makes it even more ghastly.
Get real. The guy would have been prosecuted and punished just like anyone else who committed a heinous crime such as this, even under a Libertarian administration.
As far as the homosexual consensual relationship is concerned, who cares? As long as it doesn't develop into criminal activity as eating people and such....
Yeah, I'd like to know the answer to that as well...
I almost replied to that ad! Whew! I'm always open for a good slaughter. Sounded like fun. Boy am I glad now I passed it up.
But that's just the point: what is it that makes this a heinous crime? The "victim" was apparently willing to be slaughtered, and the "last meal" would appear to be proof of that. Where in Libertarian doctrine is this wrong?
Driving behind the couple is a man and his 12 year old daughter. The little girl is just chatting away at her father when all of a sudden the penis smacks the pickup on the windshield, sticks for a moment, then flies off.
Surprised, the daughter asks her father, "Daddy, what the heck was that?
Not wanting to expose his twelve year old daughter to anything sexual at such a young age, the father replies "It was only a bug, honey."
The daughter sits with a confused look on her face, and after a few minutes she says, "Sure had a big dick, didn't it?
I was being real. This was apparently consensual behavior between two adults. Assuming it was consensual (which the article strongly suggests), why would Libertarians regard it being different than prostitution. What am I missing?
I understand that you think it is different. What I would like to know is why.
I think this case is interesting in this regard just because it pushes the Libertarian principle of no state interference in consensual behavior between two adults to its extreme.
I think that the principled Libertarian answer is that the state has no business criminalizing this private consensual behavior. If that is not your answer--and if you are a Libertarian--I am really curious to know why you (or any other Libertarians lurking) would make an exception to the general principle in this case.
Very well, apparently. At least for a little while.
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