He donned an apron, hung his loverвЂ™s body on a hook, and began to carefully remove and package the meat, which he stacked in his freezer beside a takeout pizza. Having fulfilled BrandesвЂ™s fantasy, Meiwes then indulged his own. He retrieved a knife from his kitchen, kissed Brandes, and stabbed his lover in the throat until he died.

Hours later, the exsanguination not yet complete, Meiwes became impatient. Meiwes then ran Brandes a bath and read a Star Trek novel while the man bled out in his tub. They attempted to eat it together but found it too chewy. Upon arriving at MeiwesвЂ™s home, Brandes ingested sleeping pills, painkillers, and half a bottle of Schnapps before Meiwes castrated him and flambГ©ed his member. What transpired between the two men became one of the most infamous cases in German criminal history. For his part, Brandes had long desired to be slaughtered and eaten a desire which intensified when his girlfriend ended their relationship after learning he was bisexual. Meiwes, a gay computer technician, had nurtured fantasies of consuming a blond вЂњyounger brotherвЂќ since he was a kid. вЂњNo, you donвЂ™t exactly find it in the supermarket, unfortunately.вЂќД«randes met Meiwes on The Cannibal Cafe-a now-defunct forum for anthropophagic fetishists-where he had responded to MeiwesвЂ™s advertisement for a вЂњwell-built man, 18вЂ“30, who would like to be eaten by me.вЂќ The men conversed for a few days and agreed to meet on March 9 at MeiwesвЂ™s mansion near Rotenburg, Germany.

вЂњSo IвЂ™m the first? You have eaten human flesh before, or you havenвЂ™t?вЂќ вЂњUnfortunately, only in my dreams,вЂќ answered Meiwes, вЂњbut in my thoughts I do it every night.вЂќ Have you slaughtered a man before?вЂќ Bernd-JГјrgen Brandes wrote to Armin Meiwes in a private chat on March 6, 2001.

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