An obese man in Maryland went on a murdær
spree in the 1990s after his wife took their
son and left him.
Joseph Metheny was convicted of killing two
young women, Kathy Spicer and Cathy Ann Magaziner,
and burying their bodies in a shallow grave
on the property of the pallet company he worked
and lived at.
However, that's far from the worst part.
Joe was originally charged with five killings:
two homeless men in a makeshift camp, and
three young women who were addicted to drugs.
Due to lack of evidence, the charges were
dropped for all cases but Spicer and Magaziner,
who he allegedly met in a bar, and later brought
back to his trailer to r@pe and murdær.
Later on, he confessed to killing the three
others, plus at least five more young women.
Joe was given two life sentences for the slayings,
though he was originally given the death sentence
in 1998, which is what he wanted.
He said: “The words, ‘I’m sorry’ will
never come out, for they would be a lie.
"I am more than willing to give up my life
for what I have done, to have God judge me
and send me to hell for eternity."
Though not proven in court, Joe claimed that
there was another gruesome aspect to his crimes.
He says that he chopped up his other victims
and sold their meat from a roadside barbecue
stand.
In a jailhouse confession, he wrote:
"I cut the meat up and put it in some Tupperware
bowls then put it in a freezer.
I opened up a little open-pit beef stand.
I had real roast beef and pork sandwiches.
They were very good.
The human body tastes very similar to pork.
If you mix it together no one can tell the
difference.
So the next time you're riding down the road
and you happen to see an open pit beef stand
that you've never seen before, make sure you
think about this story before you take a bite
of that sandwich.
Sometimes you never know who you may be eating."
Joe apparently asked a friend to help him
dispose of one of the bodies, and the man
later went to police.
The police found traces of blood in his trailer,
and then Spicer's body.
He led them to Magaziner's body three days
later.
Joe spent twenty years in Western Correctional
Institution in Cumberland, where he had his
own jail cell.
On Aug. 5, 2017, he was found dead in his
cell, according to the Department of Public
Safety and Correctional Services.
Police said they were investigating how he
died, but the results were never made public.
