"He was a mother's boy," neighbour Joerg Monkermoeller said. In another room, she preserved his favourite toys: a train set, a model of a German castle - but on the table where they stand he has placed the bleached skull of a cow.
In 2001, on the website The Cannibal Critic, Armin Meiwes made a post looking for someone to come over and let him eat him.
But Meiwes’ journey to prison was far from simple. With that, Meiwes fate was sealed in 2001 when he killed this man and ate the majority of his flesh. If you think that part of the story is weird, it gets weirder when you realize that someone actually agreed to the plan. Oh, and he posted on Craigslist looking for a volunteer who he could eat. He’s a computer technician, mild-mannered and in jail. On first glance, Armin Meiwes seems like your average German man. By: Bethany Wade Is Armin Meiwes most similar cannibal to Hannibal Lecter ever?