{"id":1804,"date":"2003-12-03T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T03:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/03\/computer-expert-cannibalizes-engineer\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T03:52:54","slug":"computer-expert-cannibalizes-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/03\/computer-expert-cannibalizes-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Expert Cannibalizes Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1968'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><font size=\"+1\"><strong>Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect<br \/>\n          neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited<br \/>\n        them round for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>        Other residents in the small German town of Rotenburg also believed<br \/>\n          there was nothing odd about the 42-year-old computer expert, whose<br \/>\n          light burned<br \/>\n        late into the night inside his creaking mansion. Yesterday, however,<br \/>\n          Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing &#8211; and then frying and<br \/>\n          eating &#8211; another<br \/>\n        man.<\/p>\n<p>        In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, the<br \/>\n        self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin<br \/>\n        engineer, Bernd Brandes, after advertising on the internet, and had chopped<br \/>\n        him up<br \/>\n        and eaten him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/germany\/article\/0,2763,1099477,00.html?=rss\">from<br \/>\n          the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited them round for dinner. Other residents in the small German town of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/03\/computer-expert-cannibalizes-engineer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}