EU Germany: Teeth Marks on Human Leg Bone Found in Berlin Park Led Police to Alleged Cannibal

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A 41-year old high school math and chemistry teacher in Berlin is in custody on accusations he cannibalized a 44-year-old man he met on a gay hookup site.



Police investigating a chewed up human leg bone found in a park in Berlin have arrested a 41-year-old high school math and chemistry teacher on suspicion of sexually-motivated murder and cannibalism, according to German police.

The victim has been identified only as Stephen T., a 44-year-old high-voltage lineman who disappeared after meeting the math teacher on the gay hook-up website Planet Romeo, Berlin prosecutors said Friday.

An urban trekker found the flesh-free leg bone and the lineman’s other skeletal remains on Nov. 8. Police originally thought the bite marks on the bones could have been made by an animal, but now believe they are from the math teacher, whose name has not been released due to German privacy regulations.

The lineman disappeared from his apartment in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district on September 5, telling his roommate he was going to meet a friend. Police say the math teacher and the lineman exchanged several conversations in a chatroom on the Planet Romeo website. The website is not tied to cannibalism but is a popular hook-up venue.

Police then used information from the website to find the math teacher’s home where they found knives, a bone cutting saw commonly used by surgeons and a larger cooler, according to the German newspaper Bild. Investigators also found 50 pounds of sodium hydroxide which can be used to dissolve flesh and body tissue. The suspect told police he planned to use the chemical to make soap.

Germany has prosecuted several cannibals in recent years, including a police officer who was convicted of murdering a man he met on a German chat room dedicated to cannibalism in 2016, and the infamous Rotenburg cannibal Armin Meiwes who also killed and consumed a man he met online.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

An urban trekker

Calling somebody going for a walk in the park an "urban trekker" irritates me more than finding out about yet another gay kraut cannibal.

The website is not tied to cannibalism but is a popular hook-up venue.

LMAO that they felt compelled to add that disclaimer. What a relief!

 

[Stoneheart]

Calling somebody going for a walk in the park an "urban trekker" irritates me more than finding out about yet another gay kraut cannibal.

Well its woodlands on the edge of Berlin. the word Urban is the Wrong part, not Trekker.

 

[Jeff Gerstmann]

Bite marks are junk science.

 

[Roast Chicken]

WTF is it with middle-aged gay men eating eachother?

 

[Kulee Baba]

They should keep him in the same cell as Armin Meiwes to see who ends up eating/fucking the other one to death.

 

[Some JERK]

I mean yeah yeah cannibalism bad and all that, but how hard are you eating that you're leaving bite marks on the bones? Most animals only do that shit because they don't have enough phosphates in their diet.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Typical Krauts

 

[Eris!]

I wonder what percentage of grindr hookups end in murder, theft, or other shit

 

[The Final Troondown]

The website is evidentially tied to cannibalism because you’re mentioning it in a cannibal case

 

[Archeops]

Yeesh, given that human flesh has often been described as tasting like a bitter pork I wonder how much seasoning he used to make the meat palatable. On the other hand, he DID gnaw on the bone like a filthy beast would instead of turning it into bone meal...

That said, the fuzz did good job using the tooth marks to confirm he was cannibalized. If they just went by the data they found on that gay dating site then it probably would've been a regular murder case.

Bite marks are junk science.

That's not exactly true, you can usually tell what kind of predator has feasted on a carcass based on the kinds of tooth marks left on bone. Hell, paleontologists can often tell what kind of predator fed on a dinosaur based on the tooth marks left on the fossil.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

> Alleged Cannibal
> All bars are closed, so we can't even go to the Winchester
Oh you sons of

 

[Timber Wolf]

Yeesh, given that human flesh has often been described as tasting like a bitter pork I wonder how much seasoning he used to make the meat palatable.

Hmm, you know, I'd really like to know where you got this information from...

 

[The Real SVP]

WTF is it with middle-aged gay men eating eachother?

Maybe they taste really good?

 

[Happy Fish]

The lineman disappeared from his apartment in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district on September 5, telling his roommate he was going to meet a friend. Police say the math teacher and the lineman exchanged several conversations in a chatroom on the Planet Romeo website. The website is not tied to cannibalism but is a popular hook-up venue.

Found the problem. It's all an honest mistake. He thought he was on Door Dash, but he was on a gay site. Common mistake. Anyone could make it.

 

[Aldora]

Germans are the Japanese of Europe, always into the super freaky stuff.

 

[Some JERK]

Germans are the Japanese of Europe, always into the super freaky stuff.

It's the kinda shit that happens when you get sent to your room for 75 years.

 

[Jeff Gerstmann]

Yeesh, given that human flesh has often been described as tasting like a bitter pork I wonder how much seasoning he used to make the meat palatable. On the other hand, he DID gnaw on the bone like a filthy beast would instead of turning it into bone meal...

That said, the fuzz did good job using the tooth marks to confirm he was cannibalized. If they just went by the data they found on that gay dating site then it probably would've been a regular murder case.

That's not exactly true, you can usually tell what kind of predator has feasted on a carcass based on the kinds of tooth marks left on bone. Hell, paleontologists can often tell what kind of predator fed on a dinosaur based on the tooth marks left on the fossil.

No, they can't. They can only tell if it's a predator because marks are there EVEN THEN they can't rule out a scavenger that came along later, anything else is purely speculative. You can get certified in forensic orthodontology in 40 hours online and the field itself has literally no scientific backing to it.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Berlin is among the worst shitholes in Germany, this is just common Berlin thing.

 

[Archeops]

Hmm, you know, I'd really like to know where you got this information from...

It's mostly a joke that a friend of mine and I share due to "long pig" being another name for human flesh used as food and us going through a Texas Chainsaw Massacre-themed haunted house that REEKED of barbecue seasoning one Halloween season years ago. Oddly enough, Wikipedia has an example of a New York Times editor obtaining and consuming a chunk of human flesh and reviewing it under their "Individual Acts" section. They said that veal was the closest comparison they could find.