Better Than The Twinkie Defence

Meiwes, who said in court he had fantasised since puberty about consuming a man to fill the void caused by the sudden departure of his father, had been in touch with hundreds of people on the Internet, where he posted ads seeking fit men for “slaughter” … The fateful meeting came in March 2001 in Meiwes’s house after Meiwes responded to Bernd-Juergen B.’s Internet ad seeking someone to bite off his penis and kill him. With no trace of embarrassment, Meiwes told the court how the killing had begun with him trying unsuccessfully to bite off the victim’s penis, then cutting it off with a knife. They both tried to eat it raw, and then fried it, trying again unsuccessfully to eat it. Meiwes then waited for hours until the victim, weakened by loss of blood from his wound, fell unconscious shortly after calling out that he needed to urinate. He then laid him out on his butcher’s bench and cut him in pieces. He ate 20 kg (44 lb) of the body over the following months, defrosting pieces portion by portion. He kept the skull in the freezer and buried other body parts in his garden.