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Trial Begins for German Cop Accused of Cannibalism Killing
MalayMail, August 22, 2014 http://m.themalaymailonline.com/imag...40_436_100.jpg Detlev Guenzel (right), a 56-year-old German police officer, arrives for the opening of his trial on August 22, 2014 -at the court in Dresden, Eastern Germany. — AFP pic DRESDEN, Aug 22 — A German police officer went on trial today accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for cannibalism fetishists with the aim of making a grisly pornographic home video. In a macabre case that has captured global attention, prosecutors say the 56-year-old defendant, Detlev Guenzel, killed the man at his home last November, then cut his body into small pieces and buried them in his garden. Quote:
The men came across each other in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies billed as “the #1 site for exotic meat” and boasting more than 3,000 registered members. Investigators say, however, that there is no evidence that the suspect ate any part of the victim. Guenzel has retracted a confession he made to police in which he said he killed 59-year-old Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz by cutting his throat. His defence team argued that Stempniewicz, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself in Guenzel’s custom-designed “S&M studio” in his cellar before Guenzel took a knife, then an electrical saw to his body. ‘A Very Sheltered Childhood’ Guenzel, a trim man with closely cropped grey hair, entered the courtroom wearing a white hoodie jacket and neat grey trousers and smirked slightly as media photographers took his picture. He told presiding judge Birgit Wiegand that he would not address the facts of the case but he gave the court a detailed account of his biography. Quote:
He has two adult children from a previous marriage and said he adopted his partner’s daughter, who now lives in Ireland. “I have close contact with all of them and they have all visited me in prison,” he told the court. Guenzel’s partner, neighbours and police colleagues have told investigators they were shocked to learn of his double life. ‘Pure Horror’ The graphic 50-minute video showing the dismemberment is to be presented during the trial, which is scheduled to last at least until November and hear from around 20 witnesses, including the dead man’s estranged wife. One investigator called the images “pure horror”. But Guenzel’s defence attorney Endrik Wilhelm says the recording proves that Stempniewicz committed suicide by hanging himself. A pathology report indicates he died from asphyxiation and Wilhelm said that his knees were bent while he hung, his mouth taped shut and his hands bound behind his back. Quote:
Guenzel picked him up at Dresden’s main railway station and drove him back to his house in the mountain town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau, which he ran as a bed and breakfast. Wilhelm expressed fears that the massive media attention had created a bias against his client. He noted that most reports referred to the infamous case of German cannibal Armin Meiwes, who admitted to killing, mutilating and eating the flesh of a lover in 2001 he had met on the Internet via an advertisement looking for a “slaughter victim”. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006. The case exposed a murky underworld of violent fetish websites in which volunteers find partners to share dismemberment and cannibalism fantasies and, in extremely rare cases, act them out in real life. — AFP |
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