German internet cannibalism ring widens

[Evilmav2]

Internet gay cannibalism net widens

17 July 2003

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.

DPA

[Drbio]

This is just sick.

[OutletPass]

Can the suspect play the 5 position ?

Doubt that we'd be called"soft" anymore !!

[Usually Lurkin]

Siemens corporation

***giggle***

[MFFL]

What a weird and sick world we live in.

[Dooby]

How'd the guy die?

[Murphy3]

ya know, if he's eating people that want to be eaten..i guess that's alot better than eating people that don't want to be eaten

You have to look at the glass as half full, not half empty

[dallas_esq]

I have my doubts that the victim "agreed" to anything. If he did it was due to some mental illness, which prohibits his competency to give "consent" to anything, therefore he was murdered. Even suggesting that he may have "agreed" just demeans him.

[mavsfanforever]

Sick .

[MavKikiNYC]

Sounds like a homo/Euro/cannibo-plot evolution of "The Life of David Gale".

Of note is that the sexual orientation of the participants is emphasized. This seems somewhat sensationalizing, since we don't see the Kobe Bryant case referred to as a heterosexual rape case; or hear of heterosexual child sex abuse cases; or hear of polysexual stock fraud scheme indictments.

Is the Dotson/Dennehy murder a heterosexual murder case, since both men were presumably heterosexuals, or a homosexual murder case, since both parties were men?

I have to wonder if a woman had been the victim if they would have headlined this as a heterosexual cannibalism case.

[veruca salt]

I thought exactly the same thing MavKiki....

[seelenjaeger]

I think things like this happen all over the world ... not too often, but they do.

So let´s take a positive approach: German´s just have some strange taste ...

[Chiwas]

Originally posted by: MFFL
What a weird and sick world we live in.

Sadly true.