German 'ate Internet man'
German police have arrested a 41-year-old suspected of killing and dismembering another man he met on the Internet and later eating his flesh, prosecutors said tonight.
The suspect apparently carried out the crime with the agreement of the victim and captured it on videotape in spring 2000, prosecutors in Kassel said in a statement.
The alleged victim, a 42-year-old from Berlin, had been registered as missing by police in the capital, the statement said.
The suspect killed the victim by stabbing him in the throat, prosecutors said. He allegedly chopped the body into pieces, deep-froze parts of it and buried the rest. He later ate much of the flesh, the statement said.
Authorities withheld the identity of both the suspect and the victim.
Prosecutors said they tracked down the suspect after finding an advertisement he had placed on the Internet seeking a man willing to be killed and eaten.
Police who searched the man’s apartment in the town of Rotenburg on Tuesday found human flesh, bones and video recordings.
