His original trial convicted him as guilty of manslaughter, however a re-trial in 2005 found him guilty of murder, and he is currently serving a life sentence in prison. However, the question I would like to pose to the community as a whole is as follows:

Now before I move on I want to make it quite clear that I in no way condone the actions of Meiwes. Meiwes ate the body over the next 10 months, storing body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consuming up to 20 kg of the flesh.' The whole scene was recorded on the two-hour video tape. After stabbing Brandes to death in the throat, he hung the body on a meathook and tore hunks of flesh from it he even tried to grind the bones to use as flour. Meiwes apparently gave him large quantities of alcohol and pain killers, 30 sleeping pills and a bottle of schnapps, finally, he kissed him once and killed him in a room that he had built in his house for this purpose, The Slaughter Room. Meiwes read a Star Trek book for three hours whilst his voluntary victim was bleeding to death in the bath. Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off.according to journalists who saw the video (which has not been made public), Brandes may already have been too weakened from blood loss to actually eat any of his penis. Meiwes is openly bisexual, as was Brandes.Īs is known from a videotape the two made when they met on Main Meiwes' home in the small village of Rotenburg, Meiwes amputated Brandes' penis and the two men attempted to eat the penis together before Brandes was killed.

Many other people responded to the advertisement, but many backed out and none were forced to do anything they didn't want to do by Meiwes. Bernd Jurgen Brandes answered the advertisement. Meiwes's post stated that he was 'looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed'. 'Looking for a willing victim, Meiwes posted an advertisement at a website, The Cannibal Cafe, whose disclaimer mentions the distinction between reality and fantasy. Some of you have probably heard of him, and the events that transpired in March of 2001, but for those who are unaware, here is a brief description, taken from a Wikipedia article and spoiler'd for size. Today, my fellow Escapists, I present to you the case of the German Armin Meiwes.

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