The cannibal who 'ate a man with a glass of fine red wine' | 60 Minutes Australia

if you saw him in the street he wouldn't rate a second glance he looks so ordinary but he's not armand mivis is a cannibal in march 2001 he killed a man and ate him along with a glass of fine red wine a crime so bizarre it horrified and mystified the world you see marvis's victim was a willing accomplice he actually wanted to be eaten a rare case of what they call love cannibalism now you're going to meet this quiet unassuming man who became a monster for the first time he tells his chilling story and i should warn that at times it's quite graphic and could distress some viewers [Music] armand mivis is 46 a quiet polite man who grew up in a loving family in a small town in germany but make no mistake he is also a modern-day monster his crime so horrific there were no laws to cover it no words in medical journals to describe his mental state my name amin mires i was born 1961 i'm computer engineer from rotenberg germany i killed a man vlogged at him and ate him since then he is always with me on the morning of december 10 2002 police in rotenberg germany acting on a tip-off raided this isolated farmhouse in the kitchen they found a freezer with a false bottom concealing what maivus claimed were packets of wild pig but it wasn't wild pig it was the flesh of this man burnt brandus there was no disputing what maivus had done and he never denied it when the body is to be eaten it has to be dead that's clear it tastes like pork a bit more harsh substantial a frankfurt court found maivus guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment and now in an unprecedented interview from his jail cell maivus gives a chilling account of that terrible night also for the first time marvis's lawyer harold ermel reveals the crime scene itself god i was waiting we are coming to the slaughter room the house where maivus slaughtered his victim and dined on the flesh eat the flesh a steak or as beef with red wine and potatoes and it was very important for mr marvis to eat it eight years ago armand myvis posted an advertisement on the internet he made contact with bernd brandes an engineer from berlin they found they had a bond maevus wanted to eat a man brandus wanted to be eaten they've been emailing and chatting on the internet since january and we talked about exactly what he would happen this was what maivus had craved all his life a man of the 21st century who harboured the primitive instincts of a cannibal i'm in maivis is a very good example of a man who lived a double life gunther stumpf is a journalist who regularly visits maivus in jail and has gained a unique insight into his background he went on sailing trips with his friends he was a very normal neighbor on the other hand he was a monster in the media who was dining on human flesh but mivis hardly had the makings of a monster speaking through a translator in his native tongue of german he describes the ideal surroundings of his childhood we'd build tree houses play cops and robbers in indians everything that was fun or we chopped down trees it was lovely really but marvis's carefree existence was shattered when without warning his father deserted him and his mother it was a critical turning point the young maibus retreated into a fantasy world and invented imaginary friends to keep him company but it wasn't enough he wanted to feel more connected to these friends that they should be part of him and so began his deadly obsession and then i thought that if they were to become a part of me i'd have to eat them when he hit puberty he had the same crushes as other boys did but he found it difficult to form relationships and these crushes developed into something more the desire to eat someone so that they've always with him but even in his fantasies maivus wanted his victim to be a willing partner he had to go into this inner connection willingly it wouldn't have been possible any other way he had to practically sacrifice his life so that he could carry on living in me that was how i saw it anyway his obsession grew but remained an unattainable dream until his mother died [Music] free of her domineering influence maivus could finally indulge his cannibalistic fantasy around this time i had somehow stumbled on cannibal sites cannibal chat rooms i took a good look at them and thought they were just fantasy but there are so many ads you couldn't believe it there were people offering themselves to be eaten and were looking for people to eat them [Music] when maivis told me about the other people he met before brandes his victim or after his victim i was really shocked there were people which wanted to be barbecued like a chicken there were people which wanted to be hit with a hammer and then slaughtered but none of them were suitable none of them willing to see it through then along came brandis i'd replied to an ad he put on the internet the strap line was dinner or your dinner and the text was i'm offering you the chance to eat me alive who really wants it needs a genuine victim in burnt brandis maivus had found his ideal victim someone whose fantasies provided the perfect counterpoint to his own in march 2001 at a train station near rosenberg and drove him home we arrived home and he went straight into the living room and undressed so that i could admire dinner or then through the living room and straight into the winter garden winter garden the winter garden faces the streets at the time of the deed this terrible deed the shuttles were open and brundy started to undress he had a sporty figure as i'd imagined he was a very nice lovely man then the two came this way upstairs to the second floor to the so-called slaughter room where later the terrible d took place he wanted to experience the ultimate high and for him that was to be eaten alive that for him would be ultimate place jesus the men made a diabolical pact maevus would cut off parts of brantus body while he was still conscious it was agreed they would film the entire episode the result was so shocking that police have now locked away the video never to be released on we discussed everything beforehand including the camera which should be switched on because he wanted to see for himself what it was like when we did the amputation he wanted to experience pain that was so bad it would kill him pain that would destroy him obviously he yelled he was standing at the table and he sprang backwards the blood was spurting out and after 30 seconds he stopped yelling and said it doesn't hurt but the anymore wasn't enough to kill brandus and myvis hesitated over what to do next i prayed at that moment i didn't know what to do i asked myself whether i should pray to the devil or god what happened and i asked god for forgiveness and after hesitating some more i cut his throat with it [Music] i separated the head from his body i poured hot water over the two halves and washed the body [Music] it was on this table that is etch parts of pandas he took his good dinner service from this cupboard at the back here and put it on the table he lets candles took out a good bottle of red wine and prepared the meal and then he add parts of pandas the first bite was of course very strange it was a feeling i can't really describe and now i was getting the feeling that i was actually achieving this perfect inner connection through his flesh tastes like pork but stronger more substantial although i don't think that other people would have noticed a difference had they eaten it it tasted really good over a period of months he consumed 20 kilos of the flesh all the while continuing to search the internet for more willing victims until a young austrian student became suspicious and alerted authorities five months later dozens of police swooped on nivis's farmhouse to search the property and there was a policewoman within the troop and she asked my wish so what kind of meat do you have in the fridge and i said no this is just normal animal meat and she looked at him and said you know i'm a housewife i know that this is not normal meat the case posed a legal dilemma there is no german law against cannibalism and brandus was clearly a willing victim maivus was initially convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to only eight and a half years in prison but a retrial convicted him of murder and he was sentenced to life in jail but even now no one can be sure that maibus regrets his crime i think regret is uh to to be too strong words for myvis i think he's starting to realize that what he did was wrong and it's a slowly process i did not feel that he really regret the slaughtering and eating of brandeis deeply today i know that what i did was wrong [Music] the wishes the fantasies you have that these can never ever be fulfilled and everything that you dream about will only ever remain a dream what i did even after i've done it i always thought it could be more than just a dream today i know that it can never be hello i'm tara brown thanks for watching to 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Length: 14min 49sec (889 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 25 2020