Back in CSTB’s earliest days — before Will Leitch’s emergence as a multimedia sensation, before Velvet Revolver would make musical history with their Nobel Prize winning debut album — I did my best to keep tabs on the tale of Armin Meiwes, a 43 year old computer specialist from Rotenburg, Germany, accused of castrating and devouring a guy he met online.
December 3, 2003.
December 3, 2003 (pt. II)
December 4, 2003
Already found guility of manslaughter, Meiwes, currently being retried for murder, argued today in court that he never intended to kill his victim. Just to eat him. A distinction, I must confess, that is a little lost on me.
Meiwes repeated much of his confession from his first trial during his three-hour testimony.
He admitted killing 43-year-old German-based computer specialist Bernd-Juergen Brandes at Meiwes’ home in the town of Rotenburg.
Meiwes told the court how he severed Mr Brandes’ penis and that they both tried to eat it without success.
He said he hoped Mr Brandes would die of blood loss or throw himself to his death from a window.
“I wanted to eat him, but I didn’t want to kill him,” Meiwes told the court.
Brandes steadily lost more blood and finally became unconscious – at which point Meiwes decided to pray, he said.
“I didn’t know whether I should pray to the devil or to God,” Meiwes said.
That’s quite a concidence because I’ve heard the exact same quote from every person who saw an advance screener of “Love Monkey”.