Young Armin was very lonely and felt isolated from the rest of the world. At home, Armin had to wait on her hand and foot. She constantly belittled him in front of neighbours and friends. She emasculated him by calling him Minchen, which was a pet-name for a young girl. Waltraud had become bitter and cynical and directed her hatred toward men to Armin. She would dress both of them up in medieval clothing and have formal dinners for mother and son in the time warped dining room. Inside, she created a fantasy life where she would be the lady of the manor and Armin would be her servant. She withdrew from any kind of social life outside of the manor house. They spent more and more time in Wüstefeld. His mother became somewhat of a recluse after her husband left.
He felt like he had lost his whole family in the matter of two years. Armin could not deal with the family crisis all. Shortly after this, his grandmother passed away – another setback. He also emptied the bank accounts, leaving them with nothing but their house. They were very close.īut his father was gone, and he never contacted Waltraud or Armin again. And after his brothers had left, his dad was his whole world. In that instant, eight-year-old Armin Meiwes’ life changed forever.įor him, his father’s departure came completely out of the blue – he thought his parents were happy. His father left without even saying goodbye or looking back. He knew something was wrong and ran after the car, calling for his dad to stop. One day, as Armin was playing in the garden with the neighbours’ children, he heard the front door slam and saw his father get into his car and drive off. When Armin was six years old, both his brothers left home as it was time to start their own lives. But they always included him in their games. The home was busy with three boys who liked riding their horses and playing cops and robbers in the expansive garden.Īrmin’s half-brothers were from Waltraud’s previous marriage and they were much older than Armin. Stepping inside the Meiwes family home was like stepping back into the past. The home felt like a time capsule with heavy wooden beams and interior decorating to suit the medieval style of the mansion. The home was situated on the edge of town in a park-like garden with big trees. There they owned a large half-timbered manor house that had no less than 36 bedrooms.
The family had a second property in the small town of Wüstefeld, near Rotenburg. He was the third son of Waltraud Meiwes, who had been married twice before. The man on the other end of the online conversation was a cannibal and he was hunting for prey.Īrmin Meiwes was born in the city of Essen, in Western Germany in December 1961. The young Austrian student knew that this was no fantasy. Write me more about yourself – your height and weight? I’m 38, 6 feet and 165 pounds. 23, that’s an optimal butchering age the body has just matured and is still very tender. “Well, let’s say I have experience in any case you wouldn’t be the first. He also asked him how many people he had butchered. To see if this guy was for real, he sent him an email, pretending to be interested. Reinhold has never seen anything like this. Reply, informing me of your age, size, weight – preferably with a photo.” “Hi, are you between the ages of 18 and 30 years old with an average build, and would you like to be butchered? Then come to me, I’ll make it happen. Someone using the nickname ‘Franky’ posted: He saw one advertisement that cut to the chase. It was dark and grim, but surely it was only role-play, perhaps even a sexual fetish, although he had never heard of cannibalism being erotic. Reinhold thought this was simply a fantasy forum, nothing else. His eyes widened as he read some of the conversations: some longed to butcher people, others were eager to be butchered and eaten.
This was great, he thought, with a feeling of repulsion and intrigue. Reinhold logged onto the website and saw threads of threads and forums about the consumption of human flesh. Among the results, one website caught his eye: Cannibal Café. He typed the words “horror and nervous thrills” into the search bar and waited to see what was out there. What Reinhold really liked, was finding dark and macabre images or video clips. He loved surfing the internet and could not imagine that only a decade before, the world wide web did not exist. On a warm summer’s night in July 2001, a 23-year-old Austrian medical student logged on to his computer. It may not be suitable for all audiences. This episode contains details of castration and cannibalism. Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families and loved ones. It deals with true crimes and real people.
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