Cannibal retrial starts in Frankfurt

Makes you wonder after he served as an SNCO with the German Bündeswehr catering corps; just what was in those sausages!

Source: Expatica

yep, and only one per victim!

the most tasteless (no pun intended) thing of all about it is that a sensationalist film is being made about the case. I certainly wont be going to see it.

I think the Bild-led media interest in it is itself also tasteless. There are far more serious and urgent things going on in the world - the aftermath of the Pakistan earthquake for example, the Tsunami and New-Orleans victims etc, and they have to focus on a extremely rarely encountered sex-death fetish case.

I think that you have neatly summed up tabloid journalism throughout the world, Rick

Unpalatable but true: cannibalism was routine
By Tim Taylor
(Filed: 15/10/2003)

The science of cannibalism has just become respectable, as irrefutable bio-molecular evidence that we have eaten each other for millennia spurs renewed efforts by archaeologists, geneticists and anthropologists to find out when we started to do it, and why.

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long as its just the science of cannibalism, and not the practice. Or do they carry out lab tests, focus groups etc as well?

Seems logical coming from a church which eats their saviour's flesh and drinks his blood every Sunday.

It also seems logical that any flesh eating species will eat it's own flesh.

Sounds like the scientists just found a justification for some more research grants to research something else that won't make a blind bit of difference.