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A sign outside the Saxony office of criminal investigation in Dresden, Germany, where the arrested officer is believed to have worked. Authorities in Germany's eastern city of Dresden announced on Friday that they had arrested a 55-year-old police officer suspected of murdering an allegedly willing victim and then burying his remains in small pieces in the garden of the police officer's guest apartment. Dresden's police chief, Dieter Kroll, told reporters at a news conference that the suspected officer had confessed to having slashed the throat of his victim, a 59-year-old man from Hannover, who had traveled to Dresden, which is capital of the regional state of Saxony. Kroll said there was, however, no evidence that the suspect, an investigative police officer from Saxony, had actually eaten any of his victim's body parts. The killing had taken place on November 4. The pair had met at Dresden railway station and then driven to the suspect's vacant rental apartment in the town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau, in the Harz Mountain region, where the killing took place. Traced via electronic traffic Kroll said investigators made the grisly discovery during the course of a search for the victim, who had been reported missing by a colleague on November 11. Data from the dead man's electronic communications eventually led police to the suspect, who in turn led them to the body parts. | 
