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CANNIBALS IN COURT

IN BITS IN BERLIN

A Berlin court has sentenced an ex-teacher to life in prison for murdering a man he met on an online dating site. Stefan R, a 41-year-old maths teacher, was accused of killing Stefan Trogisch, a 43-year-old power line technician he met on a dating site. Shortly after meeting the man, he killed him, chopped up his body, then ate parts of it “for sexual gratification” before distributing the rest of his remains around different parts of Berlin.

After weeks of searching for the missing man, a dog walker found a femur in a forest to the

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