A policeman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly chopping up a man he met on a cannibal website and burying parts of the body in his garden.
The 55-year-old officer, who worked for Saxony’s State Office of Criminal Investigation, allegedly killed a 59-year-old man from Hannover, according to police and state prosecutors in Dresden.
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The suspect, named as Detlev G., reportedly killed his victim at their first meeting, on November 4th, and cut up his body within four to five hours, before burying the parts in different parts of his garden, the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported.
Detlev G. himself gave a statement and told officers where the parts were buried.
Although the two men met via a cannibalism website, police are yet to find evidence that parts of the body were eaten.
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When the Hannover man, a business consultant, went missing, police began a search and weeks later tracked him down using his communications with the suspected killer.
"They did not know each other personally until then," Dresden head of criminal investigations Maik Mainda told the press conference.
The two men met at Dresden railway station, from where the suspect drove his visitor back to his house in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau.
"The agreement was that the killing should take place immediately," Mainda said.
The suspect "then used a knife to cause a life-threatening wound on the throat of the victim, which led to his death," he said.
"The suspect has told us that he then cut the victim into separate pieces, including many very small pieces, and that he also cut through bones. The suspect then buried the body parts on the sloping lawn of his property."