Kangaroo? No, he sold human meat for years

A Russian convict dubbed “Vladimir the Cannibal” has described the grim moment he first ate human flesh after killing a drinking buddy in a drunken row.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikolayev, now 64, was convicted of two murders in 1997 and sentenced to death, a ruling overturned when capital punishment was abolished in Russia in 1999.

Speaking from behind bars at the notorious K-6 Dolphin prison, where he was transferred to serve his life sentence in 2001, Nikolayev explained to reporters how he had no prior intention to eat his first victim, and only decided to take a bite while dismembering his corpse.

“I was coming home from a party a little drunk. And next to the door of my building another guy, also drunk, asked me for a light. We started arguing and got into a fight. He hit me, and I hit him, and it turned out he died. What was I to do? I dragged him to the bathroom, undressed him, and started cutting him apart.” After explaining how he cut off the man’s head, arms and legs, he laughed as he described the moment he decided to “try him”.

He goes on: “I cut off a piece of meat from his thigh and boiled it. I tried it, didn’t like it, so I chopped it up and fried it in a frying pan.” He liked this meat so much after that, that he started killing innocent people and selling their meat in the name of kangaroo meat.

But the worst part here was that he even gave that human flesh for his wife and kids to eat – without them knowing, of course! He said: “He took it home and gave it to his wife. She made dumplings with it, she had some herself and fed some to her children. They didn’t know what it was.’ ‘I said it was kangaroo,’ Nikolayev said with a smirk. “We don’t have kangaroos around here. They didn’t know what it was.”

He sold human meat also for two years at one point, Nikolayev sold 5kg of human flesh at an open market for booze money. One day a woman found something suspicious with the meat and reported him to the police. Through a lab test, the police found out that it was human meat that the he was selling.

When the police searched his house, they found a drum full of meat and also found some kind of dish he made for himself to eat later that day. On his balcony, pieces of human body parts were found buried in ice. He was arrested and in court he hastily confessed his crimes. He was sentenced to life in Black Dolphin Prison.