As much as you read about the interesting things in the world, there is also the bizarre and nothing can be more macabre than the story of Joe Metheny. If you thought cannibalism was a gruesome human disorder, this guy was worse, he actually ground up his victims and fed them to unsuspecting people in the form of burgers that he sold through his BBQ stand.
If you are too faint-hearted, then it’s best not to read such things that can conjure up horrible images in your mind, but if you love a good story then indulge yourself and read on.
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Joe Metheny was arrested in Dec 1996 without a fight. The man wasn’t your average build but a 500-pound lumberjack who worked in a factory. He was known to be very short tempered and was often aggressive with colleagues. In fact, Police was shocked at how the man even gave them an accurate and detailed confession of his crimes with a warning about himself saying “I am a very sick person”
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Metheny was on a revenge spree because his drug addict wife had left him taking with her their son too. Metheny was so enraged that in his quest for looking for them, he left behind a trail of gory and gruesome murders.
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Metheny was so angered with people that he raped and murdered prostitutes and homeless people. He then dismembered them which was hardly much of a deal in comparison to what he did to his dead victims next. This is going to shock you. To cover up the murders, he disposed of the bodies in the most disgusting way possible.
Joe Metheny chopped each of his victims mixed them up with pork meat and served them in burgers which he sold to customers from his open roadside BBQ stand. Metheny continued doing this for two years till he was arrested.
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Metheny could not find his wife and son in spite of searching everywhere. He spent several days looking for them but since they had no identification, it was like searching for a needle in a haystack. He checked halfway houses. He even looked under a bridge where his wife would hide and take drugs.
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It was here that he first found two homeless men whom he suspected of indulging in drugs along with his wife. When they denied knowing her, Metheny attacked them with an axe killing them on the spot. Metheny spotted a fisherman nearby and suspecting that he might have seen the murder, he killed the fisherman too.
However, the mental flip of mincing victims came later. The bodies of his first three victims, he threw into the river after panicking.
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Metheny was soon caught and arrested for the murders and was sent to prison awaiting trial. Surprisingly he was acquitted because of lack of evidence thanks to his quick thinking and disposing of the bodies. But this encouraged Metheny even more and the taste of blood had firmly taken hold of him. He resumed searching for his wife and child. It seemed that some vicious evil had taken hold of Metheny. His demented state reflected in the bizarre drawings attributed to him in jail depicting murder and degradation of women.
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Jail was no rehab for Metheny and he must have been planning and plotting in his mind just waiting to get out. Immediately after release, Metheny killed two prostitutes and this time he did the unthinkable. He was now murdering just because he enjoyed it. He had become a regular Jason X or like those you only see in horror movies. For him killing became a sport.
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Metheny brought back the bodies of the women to his home where he chopped them into pieces and stored the meaty parts in his refrigerator freezer. The unusable parts he buried in a vacant truck parking lot which was incidentally owned by the same company he worked for.
When he reached back home, he minced the human flesh and mixed it with pork. He formed them into nice little patties and made burgers out of them which he then sold at a BBQ stand that he started on the streets of Baltimore. Metheny ran his BBQ stand selling human meat burgers to several unsuspecting customers including truckers and townies. There was no way now that the bodies of his victims would ever be discovered.
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When Metheny ran out of meat, he simply went about killing more people to mince them into burger patties. He confessed to killing 10 people although authorities believe the figure could have been much more. He would have continued this macabre and bizarre practice had he not been caught one day.
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Finally one day, Metheny’s luck ran out when one of his victims, a woman Rita Kemper escaped and reported him to the police. Metheny was tracked down and arrested in 1996. He did not resist his arrest and went silently with the cops. Metheny was tried and found guilty with a death sentence that was then overturned in 2000. He was given two life sentences instead.
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When Metheny was interrogated he confessed willingly his gruesome exploits in detail. One wonders the condition of the interrogating officers when hearing such sordid details of forced cannibalism. Metheny gave accurate details even confessing to the first three killing of which he was acquitted years ago. Metheny showed not a hint of remorse at what he had done. He was nothing but a cold-blooded killer who killed and did what he did, just the way you and me went about our daily routine every day.
Metheny said “The only thing I feel bad about in any of this, is I didn’t get to murder the 2 xxxxfxxxkrs I was really after,” he said. “And that’s my ex-ole lady and the bastard she got hooked up with.”
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Metheny also revealed to the police that no customer ever complained about the burgers tasting funny. They had no inkling about that added extra flavor he had put in them. “The human body tastes very similar to pork,” he said. “If you mix it together no one can tell the difference”.
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In August 2017, Metheny 62, was found dead in his cell at Western Correctional Institution. The cause of his death was unknown.
All I can say is that it will be quite a while after those reading this will start eating burgers again but that’s news for you. Imagine the plight of those who actually ate his burgers and then found out about Metheny’s arrest and the truth later. Grosss!!!
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