The family had a second property in the small town of Wüstefeld, near Rotenburg. He was the third son of Waltraud Meiwes, who had been married twice before. The man on the other end of the online conversation was a cannibal and he was hunting for prey.Īrmin Meiwes was born in the city of Essen, in Western Germany in December 1961. The young Austrian student knew that this was no fantasy. Write me more about yourself – your height and weight? I’m 38, 6 feet and 165 pounds. 23, that’s an optimal butchering age the body has just matured and is still very tender. “Well, let’s say I have experience in any case you wouldn’t be the first. He also asked him how many people he had butchered. To see if this guy was for real, he sent him an email, pretending to be interested. Reinhold has never seen anything like this. Reply, informing me of your age, size, weight – preferably with a photo.” “Hi, are you between the ages of 18 and 30 years old with an average build, and would you like to be butchered? Then come to me, I’ll make it happen. Someone using the nickname ‘Franky’ posted: He saw one advertisement that cut to the chase. It was dark and grim, but surely it was only role-play, perhaps even a sexual fetish, although he had never heard of cannibalism being erotic. Reinhold thought this was simply a fantasy forum, nothing else.

His eyes widened as he read some of the conversations: some longed to butcher people, others were eager to be butchered and eaten. This was great, he thought, with a feeling of repulsion and intrigue. Reinhold logged onto the website and saw threads of threads and forums about the consumption of human flesh. Among the results, one website caught his eye: Cannibal Café.

He typed the words “horror and nervous thrills” into the search bar and waited to see what was out there. What Reinhold really liked, was finding dark and macabre images or video clips. He loved surfing the internet and could not imagine that only a decade before, the world wide web did not exist. On a warm summer’s night in July 2001, a 23-year-old Austrian medical student logged on to his computer. It may not be suitable for all audiences. This episode contains details of castration and cannibalism. Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families and loved ones. It deals with true crimes and real people. Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. You are listening to: The Evidence Locker.

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