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I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti. And welcome to Redhanded. Can a homicide ever be consensual?

And if it can, what separates a consensual homicide from an assisted suicide?

We're back at the dawn of the internet this week and we have been here before with our German cannibal friend,

Armin Meibos and if you haven't listened to that episode, here is a quick summary.

Armin really, really wanted to eat a person. But the key was that the person had to want it.

That's what he got off on the consenting eating of a person.

So through 90s internet chat rooms, he found his willing victim burnt branders. Then he killed him,

chopped him up and ate him over several months before handing himself into the police.

This case, Sean, I like on the relative anonymity the internet can hold for people.

And how this enables those with darker sides fetishes or fantasies to explore their limits at will.

The internet has made it much easier for people to find others who are just like them.

And although the idea of internet friends is a nice one, there are darker corners of the where-where cannibals, fetishes,

and torture porn enthusiasts discuss their most violent and horrifying fantasies.

And their obviously is a difference between a fantasy and actually carrying out the acts you think about and describe in great detail to strangers on the internet you've never met.

But what happens when you do meet them? And the emails and messages you have sent are used as evidence of premeditation.

Can it be proven to be just a fantasy? If in the emails you have written that you are absolutely serious.

I think that's the thing that's really interesting about this case and other sort of internet based cases like that cannibal cop one.

And if you haven't seen the documentary, thought crimes, the case of the cannibal cop, seriously go watch it. Go watch it today.

It is so good and so interesting.

It's all about if you've said you're going to do something, is that enough to prove that you did it?

At what point does it stop being a fantasy and become a conspiracy to murder?

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