Story Of Motiveless Murder And Cannibalism
(N.Z.P.A.-
—Reuter
, Coyyright)
Received Wednesday, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, April 12. Slowly reciting the macabre story of motiveless murder and canriibalism, a ship's steward, Bodo Pries, today told a court in Bremen how he killed a 12-year-old boy ahd a.e some of his 'flesh, says the Associate'd Press' Bremen correspondent. Almost apatheticaiiy, Fries said: 'I just had an urge to kill someone." The murdered boy's parents heard how Fries and his family ate Uieir child's liver and part of his : thigh. There was a gasp when Fries revealed that he was a cook at one time for an American Army jnit in Bremen. Fries is charged • with murd'ering two boys in 1945 and 1947. Spectators crammed the court and hundreds waited outside. Fries said that he killed the boy with a hatchet and cut the body to pieces with a penknife. He skinned the flesh and told his wife that he had brought some pork and liver. They had it for supper the same day. Fries' wife recently divorced him.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 April 1949, Page 5
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