The case exposed a murky online scene of gory sexual kinks that usually remain pure fantasy. Guenzel was married to his male partner for 10 years in a civil union at the time of the events, but said they divorced before the trial. Investigators testified during the six-month proceedings that they could not definitively determine the cause of death due to the state of the corpse. His defence team argued that Stempniewicz, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself in Guenzel's custom-designed "S&M studio" in his cellar before Guenzel took a knife, then an electric saw, to the gagged-and-bound man.
Guenzel, a three-decade veteran of the police force, retracted a confession he made to detectives soon after Stempniewicz's death in which he said he killed him by cutting his throat. The men came across each other in October 2013 on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies billed as the "#1 site for exotic meat" and boasting more than 3,000 registered members.Ī click on a box allows participants to say if they would like to go beyond the realm of the imagination. In the process, he made a grisly home video of the events that prosecutors say he intended to use as pornography. He then allegedly cut his body into small pieces and buried them in his garden. Guenzel went on trial in August for allegedly killing Stempniewicz, a business consultant, at the defendant's home, a bed-and-breakfast inn in the mountain town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau near the Czech border, in November 2013. Prosecutors said they stopped short of this demand because Stempniewicz said he wanted to die. Lawyers representing the family of the deceased, 59-year-old Polish-born Wojciech Stempniewicz, have requested a 15-year sentence, usually the maximum in a murder case.
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