However, differing from Meiwes' in that rather than consuming human flesh, he desired to be consumed. An archive of the forum in question (i.e., The Cannibal Cafe) can still be accessed today via The Wayback Machine several of Meiwes' posts (under the alias 'Franky') are also available via said archive.Īfter several failed attempts to bait a victim (at least one of which resulted in a potential victim meeting up with Meiwes, though later backing out), Meiwes' post eventually caught the attention of Brandes, who also had a cannibalism fetish. The two originally corresponded through a now-defunct fantasy cannibalism forum (fantasy in that the forum expressly advised anyone 'incapable of separating artistic fantasy from reality' to 'leave this site') after Meiwes posted an ad seeking a willing victim to be methodically killed for the purpose of being consumed.
On March 9th, 2001, in Rotenburg, Germany, then-39-year-old Armin Meiwes(an IT technician) and Bernd Brandes (an engineer of roughly the same age) met after organizing over the internet to have Brandes killed and eaten by Meiwes, who had developed a fetish for cannibalism over his lifetime.
