The Human Hamburger: The Twisted Tale of Joe Metheny

Terror Bites: Bite Sized True Crime

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What if the burger you just ate wasn’t beef… but something far more sinister?

Meet Joe Metheny, the cannibal serial killer who turned murder into a culinary nightmare. In the 1990s, Metheny ran a roadside BBQ stand in Baltimore, Maryland, serving up burgers that had an unthinkable secret ingredient—his victims. Blending human flesh with pork, he fed unsuspecting customers a horror straight out of their worst nightmares.

Metheny wasn’t just a killer—he was a twisted storyteller, bragging about his crimes and taunting police with his gruesome confessions. From axe murders to a human meat scandal, his story is one of pure depravity, dark humor, and disturbing true crime history.

In this episode of Terror Bites - Bite-Sized True Crime, we take you inside the chilling mind of Joe Metheny, his barbecue of horrors, and the twisted legacy he left behind.

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0:50.9	I'm your host, and this is where we dive into the most bizarre,, chilling and downright weird true crime stories you've never heard.
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1:04.0	If you're eating, maybe put the fork down.
1:08.0	Because once you hear this, you might never look at a burger the same way again.
1:12.6	This is the horrifying, twisted, and absolutely stomach-churning case of Joe Methany, the serial killer who had a taste for something truly sinister.
1:25.6	Joe Mitheni looked like your average trucker bar regular,
1:30.7	big, scruffy, and the kind of guy you'd expect to be double-fisting a Budweiser at noon.
1:37.8	But what made Joe special, really special, was his love of killing and cooking and well let's just say he found a way to
1:49.7	combine the two see Joe wasn't just a murderer he was a chef and not just any chef a five-star
1:57.8	horror story waiting to happen it all started in the 1990s in Baltimore, Maryland.
2:03.6	Joe was an ex-con with a violent streak,
2:06.6	a guy who spent his free time doing totally normal hobbies,
2:10.6	like hanging around homeless camps,
2:13.6	picking up drug-addicted sex workers,
2:15.6	and butchering them like livestock.
2:18.3	Why? Because he was mad.
2:21.3	Livid.
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