Policeman 'killed man he met on cannibal site'

Published: 29 Nov 2013 12:15 GMT+01:00
Updated: 29 Nov 2013 12:15 GMT+01:00

UPDATE: A policeman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly chopping up a man he met on a cannibal website and burying parts of the body in his garden.

The 55-year-old officer, who worked for Saxony’s State Office of Criminal Investigation, allegedly killed a 59-year-old man from Hannover, according to police and state prosecutors in Dresden.

At a press conference on Friday, one investigator spoke of "a bizarre treatment of the corpse."

The suspect, named as Detlev G., reportedly killed his victim at their first meeting, on November 4th, and cut up his body within four to five hours, before burying the parts in different parts of his garden, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.

Detlev G. himself gave a statement and told officers where the parts were buried.

Although the two men met via a cannibalism website, police are yet to find evidence that parts of the body were eaten. 

According to investigators, the men met in October on the same forum used by the infamous Rotenburg cannibal in 2001.

The victim is said to have expressed the wish to be killed and eaten, and the two men communicated extensively via email, online chat, and text messages, before they finally met. 

When the Hannover man, a business consultant, went missing, police began a search and weeks later tracked him down using his communications with the suspected killer.

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