At least 10 homicides fall on Joe Metheny.
Joe Metheny looked like a common man from Baltimore City, Maryland, the son of working parents with minimal wages and normal activities, a wife, and a steady job. But This American was hiding a chilling secret.
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The problem that plagued his life and that triggered a series of crimes was the use of drugs, of which his wife was also a victim. The use of these substances caused his wife to abandon him, taking their six-year-old son with her. And he did not learn of his whereabouts until six months later.
Metheny discovered that his family was living with the person who supplied him drugs, and authorities later placed the boy up for adoption on the charge of child abuse and neglect. Tormented, Joe blamed his ex-wife for losing the child and lost his temper.
In this context, the man He sought revenge in the death of a group of people who frequented his ex-partner. The first victims were two dealers in a street situation: in a fit of rage, he murdered them under a bridge and hid their bodies.
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The next person to be killed by the man was a prostitute addicted to crack, the same substance consumed by the mother of her son, who after losing custody was missing. Searching for information, in vain, about her, he raped her and then murdered her, cutting her to pieces. Thus, the serial criminal unleashed a wave of crimes against women in deplorable situations, especially prostitutes, whom he contacted, made a date at home, then abused them and finally killed them.
But now he was doing something even worse with their inert bodies: Joe Metheny decided to mix the meat of his victims with pork and made some hamburgers that he later began to sell at a street stall. and, according to his statements, he ate that meat, as if it were any other animal, on more than one occasion.
According to the portal The clarin, the last victim was kidnapped on December 8, 1996. It was Rita Kemper, who managed to escape a moment before the criminal tried to rape her and made the complaint. The cops quickly reached the trailer where Joe lived and arrested him. There is nothing left but to confess.
His version was to confess each one of his heinous crimes and claimed that he had killed at least a dozen people. And his lawyer assured that the blame for his behavior was due to the abusive use of drugs and alcoholic beverages. Despite his confession, many of his crimes could not be proven, such as that of Randall Brewer and Randy Piker; they were both homeless. However, he was sentenced to double life for the murders of Cathy Ann Magaziner and Kathy Spicer, two of his many victims.
Police claimed that Joe had targeted young white sex workers addicted to heroin and cocaine as his main victims. (I)
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