[1] Suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams claimed that his patient Edith Alice Morrell—whose murder he was tried for in 1957—had wanted to die.
[3] In 2001, Armin Meiwes, a citizen of Rotenburg, Germany, murdered and cannibalized Bernd Brandes, a willing victim who he had met via the internet.
Beyond their lurid sexual details, both cases became known for the unique legal challenges presented, including difficulties determining the parties, the fact that the victims had given consent to their own deaths, and the difference between consensual homicide and suicide.
[citation needed] In 2005, Japan, Hiroshi Maeue lured three people using the internet with promises to assist in their suicides, and strangled them.
They may have consented to their killings at first, but the method was different from his promise of death by carbon monoxide poisoning.