A German police worker has been charged with killing, chopping up and then eating a man he met on a cannibal website.
The suspect, known only as Detlev G, 55, is said to have been ‘obsessed’ with cannibalism and met the 59-year-old man from Hanover on a forum.
Detlev G, who worked for Saxony’s State Office of Criminal Investigation, was arrested after body parts were found at a home in Dresden on Wednesday.
Authorities are now checking whether any body parts are missing or were eaten.
The case has similarities to that of Armin Meiwes, who was jailed in 2002 for meeting, killing and eating a computer programmer from Berlin whose life’s ambition was to be eaten.
Detlev G’s alleged victim was reported missing at the beginning of November.
German media reported that Detlev was previously married but divorced and then started a relationship with a man.
His former wife is also employed by the state criminal investigation office.
He met his alleged victim on a cannibalism chatroom when they arranged to meet.
Case mirrors that of Armin Meiwes (left) who was jailed for killing, dismembering and eating Bernd Brandes
In the case of the victim, it seemed his desires mirrored those of Bernd Brandes, the computer programmer who was dismembered and eaten by Meiwes at his home near Kassel in 2001.
Police said the victim and perpetrator chatted on line, made a date and then he was killed.
According to police sources, Detlev G. admitted what he had done when police arrived at his home to arrest him.
He took police to woodland where he had buried the corpse, it has been alleged.
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