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today we’ll be deep diving into the case of Joe Metheny.
We’ve all been there – feeling incredibly hungry and opting to eat at a questionable place, only to then feel paranoia about the after-effects of eating there. Well, after hearing the story of Joe Metheny,
you may never eat fast food again, especially at roadside joints. Oftentimes, those who claim the lives of others, manage to get away with their crimes for some time because they appear normal – without any telltale signs.
When it comes to the appearance of Joe Metheny, it would be easy to assume he is pure evil, and once you hear his story, there will be no doubt about how very true that assumption is.
Joe mathany was born on march 2nd in1953 in Marylan and was part of a large family of six. metheney’s father had extremely bad alcoholism, while his mother was rarely around due to her heroin addiction.
not exactly the brady bunch , right?
at the age of 6 , metheny lost his father in a car accident.
according to his account , he spenh his childhood changing foster homes one after another .
at the age of eighteen,metheny joined the military
during this time ,he became a heroin and cocain addict ,a chip off the old block.
he’s mothers said that he had served in Germany during 1973 ,allthough the killer also claimed he had also foughtin Vietnam war.
after returning from his time in the military , he turned his back on the rest of his family and became homeless instead.
This resulted in his drug addiction getting worse and his life spiraling even further out of control.
Metheny was given the nickname ” Tiny” which was a joke on the fact that he was 6’1 and was extremely overweight.
He liked to hang out at bars, and live with homeless people in makeshift camps in south baltimore any money he made from his forklift driver job was spent on heroin,crack, cocain.
and southern comfort – also known as the charlie sheen diet.
somehow in the early 90s ,Metheny managed to build himself a relatively good life. becoming a truck driver marring ,having a child and buying a trailer for the whole family to live in .
well, they do say history tends to repeat itself and in the case of metheny that was the truth.
His wife eventually became a drug addict and one day after returning home he found his h ouse completely empty , right down to the furnishings.
according to a later account meth’s wife had met another man ,who took both mother and child in to live a new life ,gossip eventually reached metheny.
claiming that the other man didn’t have good intentions when taking the two in.
with metheny’s wife becoming a prostitute to found the durug habits of the new couple
eventually ,custody of the child was lost as the addicts ended up living under a bridge along with other homeless people.
This news infuriated metheny , who sought to find his wife .he quickly packed up his truck and set out to track down the news lovers
now nobody really knows if his intention were to get revenge or save her.
but after hearing the grizzly details of what this beast did in his campaigne to find her,helping is definitely not a personality trait of this beast.
after gathering information about the whereabouts of his wife , metheny set out to find her.he learned that his wife and her new guy had been going under a bridge to get high.
Metheny visited the location, but they were nowhere to be seen.
after seeing the horrific conditions and the smelly mattresses his wife had no doubt slept on. he got high with two men , randy piker and randall brewer,before brutally murdering them and , in his own words ” shopp them up”
he later approached a prostitute that knew his wife and got her high. he tried to get information on her location ,but her prostitute wasn’t given any answers.
frustrated he strangling her to death and tossing her body in near by bushafter the first failure he lured another women ,which ended exactly the same.
after killing the second woman , metheny just happened to notice a fischerman nearby.worried that the man saw everything, he approached him and smashed a steel pipe down onto his head , killing him instantly.
he later buried the heads of the two homeless men , tied bricks to one of the prostitutes and the fischerman and put them in the rivern ,eand then left the first victim in the bush.
even for the most profilic killers ,this is a crazy body count for their first time.
in fact , during a police interview ,metheny said;
“it was a very busy night . five murders within about seven hours”
some killers , dip their toes in the murky waters of taking lives ,but when it came to metheny ,he took a run -up and belly flopped right in there-and what a slpash the 450 pound man made.
another distrubing detail that later came up during his confessions .
was after the murder of a women named catherine magaziner ,he cut off her head and buried it separately from the rest of her body.
six months later , metheny dug up the decomposing head, washed out the maggots and dirt and … did the unthinkable with it .
It’s clear that metheny didn’t see his victims as humans, maybe he saw women with addictions as lesser humans who deserve to be extinguished .
two weeks later , metheny was a arrested for the murders of Randy piker and Ranfdal brewer and spent 18 months in prison.
in what turned out to be one of the worst decisisons in Baltimore history.the killer was set free due to a lack of physical evidence.
this is where things get even more messed up,with metheny turning his sights from finding his wife to having fin killing and earning money.
how can killing people make good money? well, it turns out that with the right mix of herbs and spices even murdered people ca ntaste better than a Big Mac.
dehumanising is theme that metheny continues to show as he moved onto the next sickening stage of his life.
which led to him committing acts that would send the health department into absolute chaos
after being freed from prison, Metheny was free to act a on his fantasies cooked up during his time behind bars.
he asked his old boss for a job at the pallet company he had worked for previously as a forklift driver, he even convinced him to let him stay in a trailer on the ground so that he could guard the business at night .
The boss agreed and metheny was left alone in an isolated yard on a dead end road ,the perfect setup for a serial killer.
Metheny managed to lure two sex workers to his home by using his tried and tested bait drugs. he strangled and cut them up .
he then put parts of their flesh in tupperware bowls and froze them for later.
he then buried the rest of the remaisn in shallow graves near his home.
after eathing some of the meat , metheny came up with the idea to open his own roadside open-pit roast beef sandwich stand ,which should have been closed down for fals advertising as the meat was mixed with that of the murdered girls.
it should have been closed down because this psycho was tricking people into eating human burgers too -obviously.
according to metheny , human meat tastes extremely similar to porkwhich made it easy to disguise in his beef and pork burgers
he continued his fast food business for weeks ,but eventually “the special meat ” ran out.
yeas, that is actually what he called it.
Trying to restock his freezer ,metheny lured and killed 23 year old kimberly lynn spicer .
by stabbing her with a knife and leaving her in the grounds of the pallet business.
on december 8th ,1996 ,he asked his friend , Rita kemper to come over and take cocain.
after she turned him down for sex , metheny began tearing at her clothes and laughing while the girl screamed.
Enjoying the fear in her eyes , the killer told her that he was going to kill her and bury her in the woods just like the other girls .luckily , metheny dropped the ball and Rita managed to run out of the trailer and scale a pile of pallets.
leaping over the barbwired fence of the yard in an ironic twist of fate it was the same 6ft frame and 450 – pound framed that could easily overpower his often drugg victims that let him down.
making him to slow to keep up with Rita.methany watched as a pickup truck let thet terrified women in and drive away into the night.In panic mode metheny picked up Rita’s clothing and left them outside the gate .
he then made a call to his friend and asked him if he would help bury the body of kimberly lynn spicer .
who is still on the grounds of the business
On december 15th,the police turned up to arrest Metheny
the same day that his friend made a call to tell them about the request to bury the body .
this marked the end of metheny’s reign of sickening terror , and no doubt the start of a statewide diet after being pulled off burgers for life .
the owner of the pallet business was also charged as an accessory to the murder and attempted murder cases ,as he tried to dispose of evidence to help protect his friend, himself and his business.
in interviews , metheny admitted to killing ten people , allthough his lawyer tried to discredit his client by saying that his mental health- ravaged by drugs ,was affecting his memory.
during a retelling of his story,metheny said ;
“the only thing i feel bad about in any of this is i didn’t get to murder the two motherfuckers i was really after , and that ‘s my ex old lady and the bastard she got hooked up with”
allthough this is framed as a story of revenge by a man who has to be the closest things to the devil .it seems that it was the act of killing and the sick enjoyment of feeding them to others that really gave him his cheap thrills.
at his sentencing joe asked the court to give him the death sentence and added the words
” i’m sorry , will never come out or 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 “
when asked why he did the foul acts he simply answered ” i enoyed it”
in the kemper case he was sentenced to 50 years for killing and kidnapping.
in 1998 metheny got his wish and was sentenced to death, later that same year he pleaded guilty to murder and robbing magaziner .
with prosecutors trying to get the death sentence for that case also,just to make sure he got his time in the chair.
unfortunately it didn’t work out that way with the death sentence being overturned in 2000,
and the sentence for the murder of spicer being reduced to life without parole .
this case is riddled with poor decisions from law enforcement,but many believed that not giving this creature the death sentence was the biggest injustice of them all.
regardless metheny met his maker while staring at the four walls in his cell.
in 2017 joe metheny was discovered dead in his cell in the western correctional institution in cunberland , matyland ,a t the age of 62.
the cause of death was officially rulled as natural,which a life of morbid obesity and drug addiction can do to you.
wherever this beast ends up in death, let’s just hope they have a strictly vegan diet. now that would be pure hell for this evil burger munching monster.