NEWS: German arrested on suspicion of killing man he met on 'cannibal' website

A German policeman has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the Internet who apparently fantasized about being killed and eaten Policeman in Dresden suspected of killing and chopping up man he met on fetishist website for cannibalism A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of killing and dismembering a man he met on a website catering for cannibalism fantasies, authorities in the city of Dresden said on Friday. The 55-year-old man, identified in the media as Detlef G, reportedly told investigators he had stabbed his willing victim in the throat and chopped the body up into multiple parts after the pair agreed upon the killing on Nov. 4 After his arrest on Wednesday the suspect directed officers to a number of locations surrounding his property where he had buried the remains, city police chief Dieter Kroll said at a televised news conference. It was unclear on Friday whether the man, an expert in handwriting analysis in the forensics department of Saxony’s State Office of Criminal Investigation, had eaten any body parts. Prosecutor Lorenz Haase said he had denied having done so. But the victim, a 59-year-old man from Hanover, had “since his youth fantasised about being murdered and eaten by another person”, Police Chief Kroll said. The pair are believed to have met around a month before the killing on a website for cannibalism fetishists which says it deal with “exotic meat”. Investigator Maik Mainda said they maintained “very intense contact by chat, by mail, by SMS but also by telephone” before arranging to meet in person at Dresden railway station. They agreed the killing should go ahead that day, police said. Mr Haase said police were investigating whether they had sexual relations ahead of the killing. The suspect had said only that “his victim wanted to be killed and he fulfilled his wish”, he told the Associated Press. The killing recalls the notorious case a decade ago when confessed German cannibal Armin Meiwes was arrested for the murder of a man who had answered his Internet ad seeking a victim for “slaughter and consumption.” He is serving a life sentence after unsuccessfully arguing that the death should be classified as a mercy killing. Meiwes claimed at the time that he had received hundreds of responses to his online appeal. The Dresden case “will show how easily people can come together with the most gruesome fantasies on the Internet and exchange their perversions in an increasingly crass manner,” Police Chief Kroll said. But, he said, in 99 per cent of cases, those involved satisfied their desires purely by exchanging information. By Hannah Strange, agencies