A Weirdest Crime

2020-11-13 12:47:03 Written by Wairia Maina

This is a story of two horrible guys and one dying wish.

 

Armin Meiwes dreamt of murdering and chewing someone, while Bernd Brandes dreamt of being murdered and eaten by somebody.

 

Armin Meiwes

 

Armin Meiwes was a 41-year-old computer professional and retired soldier from the village of Rotenburg near Frankfurt, Germany. He resided with his mother until she died of cancer in 1999 when he was 37-years-old. For the next year, he stayed alone in the great 44-room family residence, spending his free time reading everything, from his huge collection of Donald Duck comics to life stories of notorious serial killers.

After the death of his mother, he let loose the dreams he first had in school of eating his classmates.

 

He even shared a private ad on the Internet:

 

"Seeking well-built guy, 18-30 years old for slaughter."

 

Among the many prank answers was one that sounded real, from Bernd Brandes, a 42-year-old micro-electronics engineer with Siemens in Berlin. I guess Siemens wasn't paying him enough to encourage him to continue living.

 

He replied:

 

"I give myself to you and will let you eat from my live body. Not butchery, eating! Whoever needs to do it will need a REAL VICTIM!"

 

Almost instantly the two began exchanging increasingly positive e-mails and on March 9th, 2001, Brandes took a day off the job, never to return.

 

He sold everything he had, including his favorite sports car, wiped his computer hard drive (porn history perhaps), and bought a one-way ticket to Kassel, near Frankfurt.

 

Armin met him off the train, they purchased painkillers at a chemist shop and returned to the home.

 

At first, Brandes got cold feet and liked to return to Berlin, Meiwes later claimed. But he rethought, ate painkillers and medication to make him sleepy, and said: "Now perform it." Meiwes set the video camera rotating (proof! you wouldn't want the cops to thinking the ‘meal' wasn't complicit).

 

The next part sounds like a script from Hannibal so I'm going to lift it directly from Wikipedia source:

 

They both recorders Meiwes amputating Brandes' penis (with his agreement) and the two men trying to chew it together. Before doing so, Brandes swallowed twenty sleeping pills, and a bottle of cough syrup, likely causing an effect of restricted breathing and extreme fatigue. Brandes originally urged that Meiwes try to bite his penis off. This did not work, and finally, Meiwes used a knife to eliminate Brandes' appendage. Brandes attempted to eat some of his penis raws but could not, because it was too hard and, as he put it, "chewy". Meiwes then fried the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, wine, and garlic; he then fried it with some of Brandes' fat, but by then it was too burnt to be eaten. He then sliced the penis up into pieces and fed it to his dog.

 

Then lead Brandes to the washroom where he slowly started to lose consciousness, Meiwes passed the time reading a Star Trek novel. When the Berliner ultimately passed out, Meiwes cut his throat with a kitchen knife.

 

After he ate, over several months, the 30 kilos of meat he had put in his freezer, Meiwes moved on the Internet in hunt of a new victim.

 

Dishearten that he could only discover people looking for cannibal role plays, Meiwes started boasting about Brandes. Someone from the chat-room instructed the federal police, who swooped on Armin Meiwes's house on December 10th last, shocking the coy cannibal and stunning the unsuspecting neighbors.

 

"It was kind of obvious to us that he had a different viewpoint on life than we did," said one neighbor dryly. "But he was an ordinary person to speak to, drink a glass of beer with - just like you and me."

 

Meiwes confessed everything in custody and informed police he was "furious" with himself for murdering Brandes, whom he said he often sees before him. Since the murder, he tells he "doesn't think so alone anymore".

 

Since cannibalism wasn't a crime in Germany, Meiwes was tried for killing and sentenced to 8 years. A later retrial for killing overturned the conviction and sentenced him to life in jail without the chance of parole.

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