Robert suffered alleged sexual abuse and confirmed physical and mental abuse at their hands, until he was removed from their care by social services. Maudsley was raised by nuns in an orphanage, at age 8 his parents bought him back to live with them.
Robert, like many serial killers, had a bad childhood and claims that ‘none of these people need have died’ if he had killed his abusive parents. He murder four men, three of which he murdered in prison. Robert Maudsley is a British serial killer. stephen griffiths murder serial killer true crime true crime uk crossbow cannibal He went on a hunger strike for ten months and demanded his right to die. He is serving his Life Sentence in Wakefield Prison where he has attempted suicide on multiple occasions.
He wrote a melodramatic speech, which psychologists say were not his words but things that he had seen on TV or read, about his inner turmoil. He would write authoritative accounts of historic infamous killers, he spoke of how Ven has taken over Stephen. ‘Ven’ being the end of his name and ‘pariah’ meaning a social outcast who is despised or rejected. His last login being a month and one day until his arrest. Above is a screenshot of his myspace profile in which he created an alter ego. The social rejection is something that Griffiths would dramatise and still plays on to this day. Stephen tried to fit into this, but was dubbed an ‘uncool goth’ and a ‘try hard’. At the time, in the Bradford area, there was a large goth community. In his teens and twenties, he would walk the streets with a sullen look on his face, his hair slicked back with baby oil and a black leather trench coat. He claimed that he was going to do better than Sutcliffe who, in his opinion, made many mistakes. While in College, Stephen became obsessed with Peter Sutcliffe. As is common with most killers, as a child Stephen would mutilate animals. His parents, although struggling for money, got enough money together to send him to private school. Meiwes is currently serving a life sentence in Kassel Prison, Germany.Ĭrossbow Cannibal, Stephen Griffiths, had a normal, uneventful upbringing. 4 alleged screenshots of the video have leaked online The video that the authorities found was shown to a jury, and some journalists at Meiwes’ trial, some of them needing therapy after the viewing. Over the 10 months following the killing, Meiwes stored the body parts in his freezer, and is said to have consumed up to 20 kilograms of Brandes’ flesh. The whole scene was found recorded on a two hour tape in Meiwes’ videocamera upon his arrest in December 2002. In a room specially made for the event, Meiwes hung the body, and slowly dismantled it. He gave Brandes alcohol, sleeping pills and painkillers, kissed him on the forehead, and stabbed him in the throat.
Meiwes read a Star Trek book for 3 hours as Brandes bled out in the bathtub. He then chopped it up and gave it to his dog. Meiwes then fried it with Brandes’ fat, and other spices, but burned it, and couldn’t eat it. Brandes attempted to eat his penis raw, but couldn’t because it was “too chewy”. Brandes, still consenting, requested that Meiwes bite his penis off, although it was too difficult and eventually had to be cut off. Brandes also replied to Meiwes like Meiwes, Brandes also had a cannibalism fetish, but in the way that he desired to be consumed. Some of Meiwes’ posts, under the name “Franky” can also be found in said archives.Īfter posting a few advertisements requesting someone that wished to be eaten, he received a reply, and even met up with at least one other man, who bailed out and left. The forum, called The Cannibal Cafe can still be accessed today through archives (link below). Meiwes, who has a fetish for cannibalism, posted on a (now-defunct) fantasy cannibalism forum On the 9th of March, 2001 in Rotenburg, Germany, Armin Meiwes and Bernd Jürgen Brandes met to organise Brandes being eaten by Meiwes.
Today on December 1st 1961, Armin Meiwes is born.