Shocking Case Of Cannibalism in Slovakia

Is this happening in the 21st century?

A man from Switzerland who posted an ad on an internet forum asking to be eaten alive got the shock of his life when a cannibal who killed three people in Slovakia replied and offered to carry out the gruesome request.

Markus Dubach said he was being bullied at work and had contemplated suicide when he wrote the ad which wasn't meant to be serious.

'My offer was meant to be a joke. Maybe a bit of a sick joke,' he said.

So he was shocked when he received a reply from Matej Curko which read: 'If you can come to Slovakia, I'm seriously interested in eating you. This is not a joke or a game.'

Out of curiosity Mr Dubach replied to the message and continued the conversation for several weeks.

At one point Curko, 43, wrote: 'I like chicken and pork liver so I would like to taste also the human one.'

He also sent Mr Dubach photographs of female body parts with the comment: 'This was my work.'

That freaked out Mr Dubach, who contacted the Swiss police, who notified their Slovakian counterparts through Interpol.

Curko suggested meeting Mr Dubach in woods near his home in the town of Kysak in Slovakia.Mr Dubach told police about the meeting and Curko was fatally wounded in a shootout in May 2011. A policeman was also badly wounded but survived.

Curko had turned up to the rendezvous armed with a gun, several knives, a meat cleaver, a saw and a body bag.

Mr Dubach was horrified when detectives told him what they had discovered in the fridge at Curko's house - body parts.

They discovered the remains of Lucia Uchnarova, 20, and Elena Gudjakova, 30, two women from Slovakia who had apparently volunteered to be eaten.

Emails on Curko's computer suggested they had both agreed to be eaten by the crazy cannibal.

Curko told Lucia in one email: 'I am not a rapist, not gay, I am just a pervert who wants to feel death, to touch a dying body.'

He said he was not bothered whether his victims were male or female.

Curko had been planning to drug Mr Dubach, stab him in the heart and then butcher his corpse before eating it slowly over a number of weeks.

Mr Dubach is now planning to write a book about how he came close to being killed and eaten.

Curko's cannibal existence came as a complete shock to his wife Eva, who gave up using his surname afterwards, such was her disgust.

The authorities buried Curko in secret to avoid his grave becoming a shrine for sickos.Since then investigations have revealed that Curko could have killed even more victims.

The Novy Cas newspaper said he is also being blamed for the death of a 22-year-old Czech man who had been in contact with Curko and had bought a train ticket to Kysak but committed suicide after hearing the man he wanted to eat him had himself been killed. 

The case has resurrected memories of another shocking cannibal case.

In 2001 Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer technician, met up with Bernd Brandes, 43, through an internet chatroom.

Brandes agreed to travel to Meiwes's home in Rotenburg, Germany, where they had sex before Meiwes cut off Mr Brandes's p3nis, which the men then cooked and attempted to eat.

Meiwes later stabbed and killed Mr Brandes, before cutting him into pieces and freezing parts of his body, some of which he later ate.

The so-called 'Cannibal of Rotenburg' is serving a life sentence for murder despite Mr Brandes having clearly given his consent to being eaten.

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