{"id":1809,"date":"2003-12-05T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/05\/there-are-thousands-of-us-claims-canni"},"modified":"2003-12-05T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T02:18:07","slug":"there-are-thousands-of-us-claims-cannibal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/05\/there-are-thousands-of-us-claims-cannibal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There Are Thousands of Us&#8221; Claims Cannibal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1982'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"120\" height=\"418\">\n<p><em><br \/>\n          <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/W8_1205.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\"><br \/>\n        &#8216;Now you can see my body. I hope you&#8217;ll find me tasty.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>        &#8211; What Armin claims Siemens microchip engineer Bernd-Juergen Brandes<br \/>\n        (above) told him after undressing in front of him at their initial meeting.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg\/world\/story\/0,4386,223594,00.html\"> the Straights Times <\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"13\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"390\">\n<p>BERLIN &#8211; Armin Meiwes, charged with killing,<br \/>\n            dismembering and eating the flesh of an Internet acquaintance, said<br \/>\n            there were &#8216;hundreds, thousands&#8217; of people seeking to eat humans<br \/>\n            or to be eaten.<\/p>\n<p>      Their advertisements can be found in Internet forums such as Cannibal Cafe,<br \/>\n      Guy Cannibals and Torturenet, he said in his chilling account on the opening<br \/>\n      day of his trial.<\/p>\n<p>      After his victim downed sleeping tablets and whisky, Meiwes cut off<br \/>\n        the man&#8217;s penis, which they had planned to eat together, but found it<br \/>\n      was inedible &#8216;even when fried&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Meiwes said he stabbed his victim the next morning, believing he was<br \/>\n        already dead, and hung his body from a hook in the ceiling of his kitchen.He<br \/>\n        recorded his act on a videotape that is being used as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I kissed<br \/>\n          him once more, prayed and pleaded for forgiveness,&#8217; he told the court.He<br \/>\n          dissected the corpse, slicing off 30kg of the flesh which he stored<br \/>\n        in a freezer.<\/p>\n<p>He later ate two-thirds of it.&#8217;With every bite, my memory<br \/>\n          of<br \/>\n            him grew stronger,&#8217; he said.&#8217;I had the fantasy, and in the end I<br \/>\n        fulfilled it.&#8217;After I had done it, I felt hate, anger, happiness, all<br \/>\n        at once.<br \/>\n            But I couldn&#8217;t regret it because this is what we both wanted.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Now you can see my body. I hope you&#8217;ll find me tasty.&#8217; &#8211; What Armin claims Siemens microchip engineer Bernd-Juergen Brandes (above) told him after undressing in front of him at their initial meeting. from the Straights Times &nbsp; BERLIN &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/05\/there-are-thousands-of-us-claims-cannibal\/\">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-1809","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\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}