Imagine a real life Hannibal Lecter who not only killed and dismembered his victims,

but also served them as burgers to unsuspecting customers. Meet Joe Methony, the notorious

human burger killer who terrorised a community and left a trail of gruesome evidence.

Brace yourself for a chilling account of one of the most heinous crimes in modern history and

discover the disturbing psyche of a man who crossed all boundaries of humanity.

Hello everybody, welcome back to another brand new episode of the casual criminalist.

As always, hello there, I'm your host Simon, I'm Zeya, one of my writers Matthew,

thank you Matthews, rid of me as script, I've not read this before. Somehow,

despite doing a true crime podcast for ages, like being in this world, thinking about all of this

stuff, I have somehow never even like, often I'll be like, I've heard of that, I've heard of that,

like vaguely aware, I have no idea about this studio apparently made burgers out of people,

which is just like, bro, serial killer cannibal, real life Hannibal Lecter, how have I missed

this one? Anyway, let's just jump in, the format of the show, if you're new here, I've never read

this before, I'm gonna read it and yeah, let's also gen, wonderful video editor edits it afterwards,

or also audio of course, depending on how you consume this as a podcast on YouTube, whatever,

let's just jump in. On a warm summer's night in 1994, the tired and weary Joseph Methany,

a return time to find his entire life in Shambles. Joe is a truck driver for Joe Stein and

Sun's palette company in Baltimore, Maryland, so as used to being away from home for long stretches

of time, but on this particular night, he had been working especially late. When he stepped through

the door, he saw that his long time girlfriend had left him and she had taken everything,

but the light bulbs. I once moved into an apartment and it did have light bulbs. I was like, really,

you couldn't have just, Rick, I know like LED light bulbs are more, as it was a nice apartment,

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