A German police worker has been
charged with murdering and chopping up a man he met on a cannibal
website who had long fantasised about being killed and eaten.
The
suspect, known only as Detlev G, is said to have been 'obsessed' with
cannibalism and met the 59-year-old man from Hanover on the fetishist
website.
Police say
the victim was tortured, killed and dismembered and body parts were
found buried in the garden of Detlev's home in the eastern Ore
Mountains, near Dresden.
The handwriting and document analysis
specialist was arrested on Wednesday at his workplace, the Criminal
Technical Institute in the eastern city of Dresden, authorities said.
He
told investigators that he fatally stabbed the victim in the throat on
November 4, hours after the two met in person for the first time.
The 55-year-old said he then chopped up the body into multiple pieces.
The
suspect pointed officers to a number of places around his property,
south of Dresden, where he had buried the remains, city police chief
Dieter Kroll said at a televised news conference.
The 59-year-old victim, whose name was not released, traveled about 250 miles by bus from Hanover to the meeting.
Police started looking into the case when the victim was reported missing on November 11 by a colleague.
Two days later, witnesses told
officers that 'the missing man had fantasised since his youth about
being killed and eaten by another person,' Kroll said.
The killing happened about a month after the pair first met in an Internet chatroom, police said.
'The victim had been fantasising
about being killed and eaten by someone else since his youth,' Dresden
police chief Dieter Kroll told a news conference.
Authorities are now checking whether any body parts are missing or were eaten but the suspect has denied doing so.
The website they used says it deals with
'exotic meat.'
'He said that his victim wanted to be killed and he fulfilled this wish,' Haase said in a telephone interview.
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.
Investigator Maik Mainda said the
victim and the suspected killer maintained 'very intense contact by
chat, by mail, by SMS but also by telephone' after first becoming
acquainted in early October.
Police are only just beginning their investigation, he said.
'I can't give any conclusive
information yet about the actual motivation of the suspect for killing
his victim. We are investigating in all directions.'
German media reported that Detlev was previously married but divorced and then started a relationship with a man.
