Joe 'The Cannibal' Metheny's vile boasts made him one of America's most despicable killers

MEET the man whose sick murder spree horrified America – Joe ‘The Cannibal’

Metheny.

Morbidly obese and with a bloodlust few have rivalled, Metheny has admitted to

at least eight murders dating back to 1976.

But it is what he did with his victims after death that will truly shock.

In 1995, he lured prostitutes Cathy Ann Magaziner, 45, and Kimberly Spicer,

26, to his trailer before stabbing and strangling them.

He then dismembered their corpses and stored the flesh to eat later.

He told the court at his trial: “I cut the meat up and put it in some

Tupperware bowls then put it in a freezer.”

He then claimed he mixed the women’s flesh with other animal meat and SOLD it

to paying customers.

He said: “I opened up a little open-pit beef stand. I had real roast beef and

pork sandwiches. They were very good.

“The human body taste was very similar to pork. If you mix it together no

one can tell the difference.”

When supplies of his “special meat” dried up he invited another prostitute,

Rita Kemper, to his Baltimore trailer within the compound of a pallet

company in December 1996.

The 6ft, 16st monster then attacked her. He said: “I got her in there and

started to rip her clothes off and knock the hell out of her. She was

screaming. I just kept on laughing at her.

“I turned around for a split second. She ran out the door. There was an

eight-foot chain link fence with barbwire on top of it around the front.

There was a stack of wooden pallets next to the fence about 10 feet high.

“That b**** scaled those pallets like a monkey and jumped the fence, and ran

down to the main road.”

Kemper – fleeing for her life – made it to a petrol station and called the

police.

Metheny didn’t run and was arrested immediately – ending a reign of terror

dating back to 1976.

Kimberly Spicer’s remains were found buried under a trailer not 10ft from his

own and detectives could also pin the death of 28-year-old local woman Toni

Ingrassia on him too.

Cops were shocked by his brutal attack on Kemper but he then stunned them by

claiming he had killed FIVE people in just seven hours two years before.

He said the bloodlust had hit him in July 1994, while working as a truck

driver. He was living in South Baltimore, Maryland, with his crack-addicted

“ole lady” and their six-year-old son.

One night he arrived home late after doing some overtime. Flicking on the

light he found the home was empty. His partner had gone, and she had taken

their son with her.

Six months later, a still-furious Metheny learned his ex had moved to the

other side of the city with another man. Their son had been taken away by

authorities due to neglect. He heard the couple might be living rough under

a bridge, and went hunting for them with an axe.

“They were not there” he said. “But the two homeless motherf*****s they got

high with were down there. They were passed out on some old stinking

mattress and that’s where they were when I left, except there were dead from

being chopped up.”

He then claimed he lured a prostitute under the bridge and doped her up to try

and get information.

Metheny bragged: “She acted like she didn’t know, so I beat the hell out of

her and raped her ass then killed her.”

But the bloody spree didn’t end there, according to the Cannibal Killer. He

then persuaded another woman down under the bridge and viciously murdered

her too.

As he was hiding her corpse he noticed an old man who had been fishing

watching him.

“I grabbed a steel pipe and ran down on him and laid his head wide open,” said

Metheny.

Covered in blood, he then tied all the bodies to rocks and dumped them in the

Patapsco River. He had killed five people in seven hours, what he called “a

very busy night”.

However, a lack of evidence meant Joe was not found guilty of any of these

deaths in court.

He was later charged with the murder of three women – Spicer, Magaziner and

Ingrassia – and initially sentenced to death, but this was overturned to a

life sentence on July 24, 2000.

Chillingly, Metheny has shown more pride than remorse when speaking of his

crimes.

He said: “My murder rampage started out as revenge but ended up as a passion

for the taste of blood and the overwhelming sense of power one gets for

taking the life of another.”

When he was sentenced, he told the jury that after six months he had dug up

the skull of Cathy Magaziner then “washed out the maggots and made love to

it”.

Seeing their look of horror, the depraved fiend then added: “The words ‘I’m

sorry’ will never come out, for they would be a lie.”