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Armin Meiwes (German:; born 1 December 1961) is a German former computer repair technician who received international attention for murdering and eating a voluntary victim in 2001, whom he had found via the Internet.
Jun 9, 2022 · Armin Meiwes is a cannibal who killed and ate a voluntary victim named Bernd Brandes at his house in Rotenburg, Germany, in 2001. In 2001, Armin Meiwes placed an online ad on "The Cannibal Cafe" asking for someone to eat — and shockingly, someone answered.
Feb 9, 2016 · The 42-year-old computer engineer from Rotenburg, Germany, became known as Der Metzgermeister (the Master Butcher) in one of the most famous cases of cannibalism in history.
Jun 8, 2022 · In 2001, Armin Meiwes, a German computer tech, killed and ate another man (via The Sun ). This stomach-churning incident was a culmination of years in the making. Crime+Investigation UK reports that throughout his childhood, Meiwes felt isolated.
Jan 7, 2022 · The case is reminiscent of a notorious German cannibal, Armin Meiwes, who was jailed for life in 2006. However, there was a significant difference in that Meiwes's victim was himself...
Jan 31, 2004 · German court convicts Armin Meiwes of manslaughter and sentences him to eight-and-half years in prison for killing and eating Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, who responded to Internet posting by Meiwes...
Apr 17, 2023 · The half-timbered house belonged to Armin Meiwes, who was convicted of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead, and was the scene of the crime. It had been empty for years. Meiwes was arrested in December 2002 over the death the previous year of Bernd Juergen Brandes.
Aug 6, 2022 · On March 9th, 2001, in Rotenburg, Germany, then-39-year-old Armin Meiwes (an IT technician) and Bernd Brandes (an engineer of roughly the same age) met after organizing over the internet to have Brandes killed and eaten by Meiwes, who had developed a fetish for cannibalism over his lifetime.
From a March 6, 2001, transcript of an online chat between Bernd-Jürgen Brandes (cator99) and Armin Meiwes (antrophagus), included in Interview with a Cannibal: The Secret Life of the Cannibal from Rotenburg, by Günter Stampf, published in Germany last fall.
Mar 15, 2023 · On March 9, 2001, Meiwes and his consensual partner Bernd Jurgen Armando Brandes enjoyed dinner, after which Meines killed the man and ate him. The two met online on a website called “The Cannibal Café”. Eventually, Meiwes earned the frightening title “The Rotenburg Cannibal”.
