Police in Dresden say they have arrested a 55-year-old
police officer on suspicion of murder after the body of another man was found
in
the Erz Mountains in eastern Germany.
They say there are indications that parts of the victim may
have been eaten.
The dead man lived in Hanover and had been reported missing.
Police believe that the two men met via an internet site for
those interested in sex with torture.
They say that the victim was tortured, killed and
dismembered, and that his body parts were buried on a piece of land in the
mountainous region which belonged to the alleged killer.
The arrested man works for Saxony's State Office of Criminal
Investigation in the forensics department.
Germany's Bild tabloid reports that he is an expert in
handwriting analysis.
The BBC's Stephen Evans in Berlin says that it is not clear
whether the killing was deliberate or whether it was the playing out of fantasy
which went wrong.
Police say that body parts of the victim were missing, and
they presume that cannibalism took place.
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