Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel
Guenzel earned the right to a new hearing after justices ruled that
the suicide defence was not 'adequately
probed' during the first trial. He was found guilty of murder and
disturbing the peace of the dead.
Detectives say Guenzel (in the pink shirt) spent five hours
cutting up his victim's body in the cellar
of the house which was a cheap holiday pension for hikers.
Detlev Guenzel (C-R), a 56-year-old German police officer, sits
next to his lawyer Endrik Wilhelm (C-L) as he
waits for the opening of his trial on August 22, 2014 at the court
in Dresden, eastern Germany. The trial of the
man accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a website for
cannibalism fetishists starts in Germany.
In a macabre case that captured global attention, prosecutors say
the defendant killed the man at his home
in November 2013, then cut his body into small pieces and buried
them in his garden.
(Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images)
Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel, a 56-year-old German police officer, arrives for
his trial on August 22, 2014 at the court
in Dresden, eastern Germany. The trial of the man accused of
murdering a willing victim he met on a
website for cannibalism fetishists starts in Germany.
(Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images)
Detlev Guenzel (R), a 56-year-old German police officer, arrives
for the opening of his trial
on August 22, 2014 at the court in Dresden, eastern Germany.
(Robert Michael/AFP/Getty Images)
Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel
Detlev Guenzel
Police say Detlev Guenzel killed and then partially ate
Polish-born businessman Wojciech Stempniewicz
in his cellar in the mountains near Dresden in eastern Germany.
Detlev Guenzel admitted slicing the corpse up but claims
Stempniewicz hanged himself and that
he did not consume the flesh of his victim.
Naked German cannibal killer poses in sandals and socks with an
axe in the basement
where he murdered and chopped up willing victim he'd met online.
