Cannibalism may seem like a thing of the past, but it's still
going on. In Germany, an apparently respectable middle class
software designer ate a microchip engineer. The police
caught him after he tried to find a new victim on the internet.
The victim was a 42-year-old microchip designer who lived in
a penthouse with thousands of dollars worth of computer
equipment. He disappeared in the spring of 2000, after selling
his car and other valuables. Police now know he answered
this internet ad: "Wanted: young, well-built 18-30-year-old
for slaughter."
The man who placed the ad is a 41-year-old computer
technician. Investigators found a slaughtering room in his
apartment, complete with meat hooks. The cannibal, a former
sergeant major in the German army, videotaped his butchery.
Police have confiscated 50 videos and are keeping them
locked away, since they?re worth a lot of money in the
specialized market for video cannibalism.
The killer stored his victim in the freezer, and was gradually
eating him until he was caught by police. He buried the
inedible body parts and bones in his garden. Before he was
caught, the cannibal placed 80 more internet ads for new
victims, and the five men who replied seem to be genuine
volunteers.
Other modern cannibals include a 30-year-old Italian man who
ate his two-year-old daughter in 1998, and a Venezuelan who
confessed to eating ten men in 1999 and said, ?I never eat
women because they have not done anything wrong.? Also in
1999, three Finnish men and a woman ate fellow member of
their Satanist cult. In 2001, two Kazakhstanis were
sentenced to death for killing seven prostitutes and making
kebabs out of them. They shared the meat with neighbors.
Also that year, six Belarusians were arrested for eating a
man?s raw liver.
One German paper describes modern cannibals this
way: ?They are invisible behind their glasses, their hairstyles,
their families, their work, their seemingly unblemished
innocence. These sick people are hiding among us, they are
in our very midst.?
Read about a special kind of cannibal?the blood sipping
vampire Miriam Blaylock and her friends,
The Hunger and,
The Last Vampire.
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