Cannibalism is inhumane animal behavior, the cruelty to eat its own species is called cannibalism.
Different people have practiced cannibalism for different contexts.
Joseph Roy Metheny
In 1996, Joseph Roy Metheny was charged for multiple murders and cooking his victim’s flesh. He ultimately died in prison while paying for his crime. He was one of the most notorious serial killers of the 1990s. He blames his harsh childhood for the crimes he has committed. He even served in the military for a brief period of time. News reports say that his killing took place in 1994, while he admitted that his first killing started in 1976. He is believed to have killed more than 10 people.
Upon his release, Metheny began killing sex workers and selling human flesh as food before he was apprehended in December 1996, just five months after he’d been set free.
Metheny confessed that he had eaten his victims’ flesh and stored some of them in Tupperware containers he kept in his refrigerator.He even admitted that he used to mix their flesh in with the meat he sold at his roadside BBQ Stand.
Metheny claimed there wasn’t much difference between the taste of pork and human flesh, and the customers didn’t notice the difference. Police Caught Metheny With The Help Of His Friend And An Escaped Victim. Metheny said that he feels no remorse and he will never apologise.
He died inside prison in 2017.
Issei Sagawa
In the interview with Vice, Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal, he expressed all his crimes without showing any emotions. He explained his cannibalistic desires and also explained the exact process in which he killed a fellow girl student. she was a 25 year old young woman named Renee Hartevelt. He dismembered her body and kept it in his home, he ate the flesh of the victim several times. He killed the girl when he was in Paris, France.
He said he was mesmerised by her beauty. He manipulated the girl to make her come to his house with a lie. When the girl came to his house, he welcomed her in and then after he killed her with a gun while she was reading something. He kept her body in his house and went to the market to buy a sharp curved meat knife. He ate her flesh and kept her thigh in the fridge as he found it to be most delicious.
He tried to dispose of her body in a lake, and after 4 days he was arrested by the police. He was sent to a criminal psychiatric ward, after he was deported to Japan as the French public grew upset over keeping that man at the country’s expense.
In Japan, due to some loopholes in the law, he was set free.
After that, he lived a life of a writer, he wrote many books and Mangas. He even made some videos through a producer. He visited many countries and even India after his release. He also did porn videos with a girl without knowing his real identity.
He says that his first cannibalistic desire started when he was 6 yrs. old. He explained how he entered a foreign woman’s house to taste her flesh as he approached o the sleeping lady, the lady woke up and called the cops on the basis of sexual assault.
He’s still alive roaming in Tokyo even though he murdered a girl.
Infamous cannibal Armin Meiwes, ate almost 40 pounds of meat from a person who actually agreed to be his meal. He said that the human flesh tastes like pork ,just a bit tougher and a bit more bitter .Meisws was a computer technician.The victim willingly travelled to Meiwes’ home where he consented to filming everything that took place.
That evening , both of them entered the slaughter room where Meiwes cut off Brandes’ (victim) penis and the two of them began to eat it.
Meiwes sat and waited for his victim to die – but after three hours Brandes was still alive. Meiwes stabbed his victim in the throat to kill him because he didn’t want to wait any longer.
Prussian serial killer Karl Denke sold the parts of 40 people, victims as pickled pork at a village market.
Issei Sagawa, the Japanese cannibal ate a fellow student despite of it, he’s still roaming around free
Ottis Toole, cooked and ate humans with his home made barbecue sauce.
Peter Bryan , fried his best friend’s brains in butter.
Anthony Morley who won Mr Gay UK in 1993 chopped up and ate his lover Damien Oldfield in 2008.
Joe Methenny used the meat of his victims for sandwiches in his roadside BBQ stands.
First known Cannibal
In a cave in France, Moula-Guercy , victims of the first cannibal were discovered. The first known cannibal was a Neanderthal. There is evidence that indicates that flesh was removed from the tongue and thighs for food. Successful attempts to remove thighs are quite evident.
The term cannibalism was derived from the Spanish name.
Lack of education or just insanity.
Some of the tribes say that it’s a cultural thing or a kind of ritual to eat human flesh, specifically consumption of specific parts of the human body.
There are cases where the flesh of a dead person was eaten by their relatives as a ritual, which is called endocannibalism, a practice of cannibalism in one’s own community. For them, it’s an act of mourning for dead people.
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