Thirty-one years after his arrest, Mr Nico Cloknown as the ‘Vampire of Paris’, has opened up about how his obsession with human flesh began – the story of the young then cannibal shocked her France in the early 90s.
The then 22-year-old Clo was arrested in the French capital, Paris, for the murder of 34-year-old Thierry Bissonnier. The police who searched the cannibal’s apartment found themselves in front of a gruesome sight: bones and human teeth scattered on the floor, parts of bones hanging from the ceiling, jars of human ashes and bags of blood in the refrigerator.
He himself confessed to the crime and revealed that he had robbed graves to collect remains, while he was working in a morgue to have access to human bodies. He admitted to cutting small pieces of flesh from the corpses and eating them, first raw and later cooked in various ways.
In a recent podcast interview Anything Goes with James Englisho 54 years old today Klhe described how the horror began. “I was 12 years old when I saw a magazine with pictures of a cannibalism crime. These images marked me. Since then I’ve had psychopathic fantasies, thinking about tearing flesh with my teeth.”
At 17, he said, he developed a “fetish for blood”, and when he got a job at a morgue he discovered how easy it was to be alone with corpses. “When I started working there, I realized that when I was alone in the morgues, I could cut off little strips of flesh and eat them. At first raw, then I would take them home and cook them.”
At the same time, he admitted to stealing blood bags from the hospital where he worked part-time:
“I was taking two or three bags a week for about six months.” As he said, the act was not about the taste, but about “the tension, the adrenaline” it gave him.
The “Vampire of Paris” remains one of the most shocking examples of cannibalism in modern Europe, as the case revealed a extreme psychopathic behavior who hid behind the guise of a young morgue clerk.
Clo he was sentenced to 12 years in prison but was released in 2002 after seven years.
Today he lives free and has written the book The Cannibal Cookbookwhile maintaining a website where he sells “collectibles inspired by notorious killers.”