Armed with a photograph of bunt, rene and nina scoured the train station for clues and questioned staff, shop owners and travellers to determine where he might have gone to next. No one recalled seeing bunt, so renee posted his photo in the local newspaper, hoping that it would generate some leads.

It didn't.

He had seemingly vanished into thin air. In truth, he was bagged up in pieces at the bottom of armin mivis's frize. Armin mivis maintained that he didn't know bient brandis was in a relationship when they met. In his confession, armin said he knew very little about bient's personal life, although bient, as kator, mentioned having a friend. Armin didn't know that this person was a romantic partner with whom bient had lived with in hindsigt had offered an explanation for a remark bient had made to armin when they returned to castle wilhelmsfer train station following their failed first attempt at the slaughter. Describing his recollections from the station to author gunter stamp for his book, interview with a cannibal, armin explained that bient was intending to go home, until he said, if i go back to berlin now, i'll be facing a showdown. Armin queried the cryptic remark, but bent didn't elaborate. Could he have been agonizing over having to explain his abrupt disappearance to his boy friend? Renee, it could have led to the unravelling of his double life, simultaneous ruining both. Author gunter staff noted that bient faced a literal life or death inpasse

between

returning home and slaughter, between reason and madness. Bient chose death, slaughter and madness. Reasoning behind bunt's decision, including why he sought to be eaten, died with him. He didn't pen a suicide note or record a good bye message. Comments and behavior in the lead up to his fateful da axs were otherwise normal. Right before he left to meet with armin mives, bunt did a clean sweep of his personal computer, dcating all trace of their communications. It was obvious that he didn't want anyone in his life to know about cator. Medical professionals retroactively examined burnt's life to uncover what might have led him on his path of self destruction. At age five, burnt's mother ended her own life. Bent was forbidden to talk about her death to his father, and as an only child, he had no one else to turn to. Their relationship shoured from then onwards.