FOR some, the desire to consume human flesh is so strong that they're prepared to kill for it.
And for this list of individuals their heinous cannibalism crimes were so shocking that they were shared around the world.
Stefan R
A German teacher was found guilty of murdering then eating a man he met on an online dating app to fulfil “cannibalism fantasies” during a horrific incident in September 2020.
The court heard Stefan R. sedated his date, killed him and severed his genitals before consuming them.
When police raided Stefan R.'s apartment in November 2020, investigators found 25 kilos of a cleaning agent called sodium hydroxide, also known as lye and caustic soda, that is also "suitable for dissolving human tissue".
In addition, relevant tools such as knives and saws as well as traces of blood were also discovered in the basement.
In January 2022, the German, dubbed the “Cannibal of Pankow,” was sentenced to life in prison.
Jeffrey Dahmer "The Milwaukee Cannibal"
Twisted serial killer and rapist Jeffrey Dahmer was jailed for murdering 17 young men in the USA between 1978 and 1991.
America and the world were shocked by his crimes when he was finally arrested in 1991 aged 30 after committing his first murder at just 18-years-old.
He is thought to have lured his victims to his apartment and drugged them before chopping them up and eating them. Cops discovered partly cooked human flesh at his apartment as well as a human head in the fridge.
"The Milwaukee Cannibal" received 16 life sentences for his crimes, some of which involved necrophilia. Dahmer was murdered by a fellow inmate in prison.
Anthony Morley
EX-Mr Gay UK Anthony Morley savagely murdered his boyfriend Damian Oldfield then cooked his flesh.
Morely slashed his lover's throat and stabbed him multiple times after the pair had watched Brokeback Mountain in bed in Leeds.
The trained chef then carved up his flesh seasoned it with herbs, fried it in olive oil and then ate it.
He then stumbled to a nearby kebab shop in a blood-drenched dressing gown and told the staff he had killed someone because they tried to rape him.
Albert Fish – "The Grey Man"
Depraved Albert Fish, also known as "The Grey Man", murdered and ate a 10-year-old girl in New York.
Six years later the serial killer sent the girls family a letter graphically describing the murder and telling them how much he enjoyed it.
The letter was traced back to the paedo, who once boasted to have either abused or eaten a child in every US state, and he was arrested and convicted for eight slayings.
Fish was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing jail in New York in 1936.
Armin Meiwes
Meiwas received a life sentence for murdering a man he met on the internet in 2001.
Bernd Jurgen Brandes responded to an advert the cannibal had put on a website asking for someone willing to be killed and eaten.
He took his victim back to his farmhouse in Rotenburg, Germany where he cut of Brandes penis which they both then tried to eat.
The killer then stabbed him to death and chopped up his body into sections before freezing them. Investigators estimated he had eaten around 45lbs of his victim when he was arrested in December 2002.
He was originally convicted of manslaughter, claiming his victim asked to be killed, but this was overturned and he was found guilty of murder in 2006.
Stephen Griffiths – The Crossbow Cannibal
Yorkshire Ripper obsessed Stephen Griffiths butchered and ate three prostitutes in 2010.
The self-styled "Crossbow Cannibal" idolised serial killer Peter Sutcliffe even filmed some of his crimes at his home in Bradford which he dubbed "the slaughterhouse".
The twisted killer skinned his victims and chopped up their bodies before cooking and eating their flesh. Depraved Griffiths told cops eating his victims was "part of the magic".
He was convicted of the murders of Susan Rushworth, 43, Shelley Armitage, 31, and Suzanne Blamires, 36.
Luka Magnotta – The Canadian Cannibal
Luka Magnotta sparked an international manhunt after he butchered his gay lover Lin Jun.
The twisted killer uploaded footage of himself repeatedly stabbing his victim with an ice pick, then dismembering him and performing acts of necrophilia.
Canadian cops saw a more extensive version and said cannibalism had been performed.
Magnotta then sent parts of the body political parties and schools in Canada.
He was eventually arrested in a Berlin Internet cafe while reading stories about himself online. Magnotta was sentenced to life imprisonment in Canada in 2014.
Rudy Eugene – "The Miami Cannibal"
Rudy Eugene stunned the world when he stripped naked and ate a homeless mans face off in the street in Miami.
His victim survived the attack but was left badly disfigured after a crazed Eugene ate both his eyes and other parts of his face.
Eugene was believed to have been on the drug "bath salts" when he committed the brutal attack.
He was shot dead by police after he stripped Ronald Poppo naked and started biting his face.
Peter Bryan
Andrei Chikatilo
Austin Harrouff
Florida student Austin brutally murdered and ate the face off a couple in an apparently random killing.
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