Psychiatrist would later claim that Meiwes is suffering from schizophrenia, which he developed as a child when he created an imaginary younger brother named Frank.
Armin was only six years old when his siblings left home away from their mother and eight when his father fled the home in 1968.Īrmin first dreamed of eating someone when he was only eight years old. Meiwes is serving life in prison for the murder of Brandes.Īrmin Meiwes was the third son of a domineering mother and divorcee of three husbands, Waltraud Meiwes. On the evening of March 9th, 2001, Armin Meiwes murdered Bernd Brandes after getting his full consent to cannibalize his body.
