To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed like the perfect neighbor. He mowed their lawn, fixed their car and even invited them round for dinner. Other people in the small German town of Rotenburg also believed there was nothing strange about the 42-year-old computer expert, whose light burned late into the night inside his old mansion.
In December 2003, however, Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing and then eating another man, according to The Gurdian. In one of the most unusual trials in German criminal history, the self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin engineer, Bernd Brandes, after putting an ad on the internet, and had chopped him up and eaten him. It was something he had wanted to do for a long time.
