I became cannibal after working at morgue – nothing beats sensation of eating humans
Former morgue worker Nico Claux opens up about his haunting descent into darkness — from tasting human flesh to becoming one of France’s most infamous killers.
It started with curiosity — a fascination with death that crept into Nico Claux’s mind long before the world knew him as the “Vampire of Paris.”
As a boy, Claux lost his grandfather at just 10 years old, and that early brush with mortality never left him.
By his teenage years, he was drawn to the macabre — obsessed with stories of notorious killers like Issei Sagawa, the Japanese man who ate parts of his victim in Paris in 1981.
What began as fascination slowly twisted into desire.
“I started having fantasies about tearing flesh apart with my teeth,” Claux revealed during a chilling appearance on the Anything Goes with James English podcast. “It became a fetish.”
When he landed a job in a Paris morgue, temptation turned into opportunity. Alone among the dead, Claux admitted to taking small strips of human flesh — first tasting them raw, later cooking them at home. “At the time, there was no real training. You just got the job. Nobody was watching,” he said.
But the thrill wasn’t enough. In 1994, Claux murdered a man he’d met online, intending to “harvest” more flesh.
His plan was interrupted, and he was arrested after attempting to forge his victim’s cheque. The shocking crime earned him a 12-year prison sentence — though he served just over seven years before release.
Even now, decades later, people still ask the same question: What does human flesh taste like? Claux insists it wasn’t about flavor. “It’s like horse meat,” he said, “but it was never about the taste — it was the rush, the feeling. I was constantly high, aroused.”
Today, the once-feared “Vampire of Paris” lives as a free man, reflecting on his dark past while drawing attention from true-crime fans worldwide.
His story remains one of the most disturbing reminders of how obsession, isolation, and untreated trauma can twist the human mind beyond recognition.
Source: Mirror UK
