When a Cannibal Killer Spots His Next Meal

In 2001, a computer technician named Armin Meiwes found a willing victim online and killed him to fulfill a forty-year fantasy of cannibalism. Bernd Brandes consented to being killed and eaten, even agreeing that they would cut off and eat his penis first. Meiwes stabbed him in the neck and stored the dismembered body in his freezer, consuming over 40 pounds of human flesh over ten months. When caught, he said: "With every bite, my memory of him grew stronger." He was convicted of murder and remains in prison