Sleuth: Cannibal May Be Innocent of Murder
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More than 130 years after Alferd Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of murder.
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Material from a man accused of killing five women matched that found on his alleged victims, a court hears.
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KASSEL, Germany (Der Spiegel) - In his first television interview, German cannibal Armin Meiwes describes the taste of human flesh, provides a decent recipe for steak, explains his fascination with the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel - and insists that he's a normal person. In his first television interview, broadcast Monday night on RTL TV, Meiwes, 46, looked relaxed and healthy as he spoke about his decades-long yearning to consume another man. The case came to light in December 2002, and the grisly details made world headlines. Meiwes filmed himself killing, disemboweling and cutting up the corpse of computer engineer Bernd Brandes, 42, whom he had met after posting messages in Internet chatrooms seeking "men for slaughter." Meiwes, a computer repair man, was originally sentenced to 8 1/2 years for manslaughter but that verdict was overturned by Germany's federal appeals court which deemed it too lenient and ordered him to be retried on a murder charge.  The judge ruled Meiwes had killed to satisfy his sexual urges. The court ruling means Meiwes could be eligible for parole after serving a mandatory 15 years in jail. "I sauteed the steak of Bernd, with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg. I had it with Princess croquettes, Brussels sprouts and a green pepper sauce," said Meiwes. He froze meal-sized portions of Brandes, some in the form of minced meat, and ate more than 20 kilograms of it in the months following the March 2001 killing. "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good," he said.  He said that when he was a child, he enjoyed his mother reading him the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," about a witch who traps two children and prepares to eat the boy. "The bit where Hansel is to be eaten was interesting. You wouldn't believe how many Hansels are whizzing around the Internet." Police estimate that around 10,000 people in Germany alone share Meiwes' fascination with cannibalism - either eating human flesh or being eaten. "He was close to me with every bite," Meiwes recalled, adding that Brandes had encouraged him to seek out other slaughter victims. "Bernd told me he didn't want to be on his own in the freezer for long," said Meiwes, who did indeed keep advertizing for fresh victims on the Internet until 18 months later, December 2002, when police arrested him after receiving a tip from a Web user.
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By Carlos Sadovi, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 1--A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors may test additional items for DNA evidence linked to last year's rape and murders of two women, allegedly at the hands of a Comcast cable repairman.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- When gay rights activist Brian Williamson was stabbed to death in June, and jubilant crowds danced around his mutilated body, police said he had been a robbery victim.
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SALT LAKE CITY - Police found human remains at a landfill Friday where investigators have been looking for the body of Lori Hacking, the Utah woman allegedly murdered by her husband.    Hacking's dental records will be compared against the remains, Police Chief Rick Dinse said...
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LONDON, Aug 21  - A young Frenchwoman has been bludgeoned to death with a blunt instrument in a park on the outskirts of London and police do not rule out that she was the victim of an unknown serial killer, they said Saturday.
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DNA found in a car owned by an accused killer may have come from one of his victims, a court hears.
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Teresa Halbach was one of 206 people killed in Wisconsin in 2005. The 25-year-old's case likely would have gotten scant attention &#151; except that the man who was charged had been exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 18 years in prison for rape.
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The premature baby girl who was cut from her murdered mother&#39;s womb in a grisly slaying appears to have been found unharmed thanks to an anonymous tip.
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TORONTO (CP) - Jurors convicted an innocent man of murder on the basis of an absurd Crown theory, a key witness whose testimony changed under hypnosis and the strong likelihood the real criminal was notorious sex killer Paul Bernardo, Ontario's highest court heard Wednesday.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s own claim that he was out fishing near where his pregnant wife&#39;s body later turned up is proof enough to convict
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A DNA link is found in the unsolved murders of two young women more than 30 years ago.
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Â· Forensic scientists dismiss firearms residue discoveryÂ· Research used as basis to launch killer's appeal
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Science & environment: Â· Scientists shed new light on disputed skeleton findÂ· Bone analysis supports distinct species theory
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GALVESTON, Texas - A woman who has been indicted on a charge of negligent homicide denies that she provided the alcohol that led to her husband's death from a sherry enema.
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An eyewitness account indicates that a death may have been especially tragic.