Sheriff: Man aimed to ‘cannibalize’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Authorities say Alexander Barter told an undercover Brevard County deputy he had “intense blood lust.”

“I would like to try necrophilia and cannibalism and see how it feels to take a life,” 21-year-old Barter, of Joaquin, Texas, wrote in an online ad, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said yesterday.

The Brevard deputy, who also works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Task Force, saw the ad and sent Barter a message and said he had a child for him to kill.

“I’m not into role-playing,” Barter wrote, according to Ivey. “I want to actually rape, kill, and cannibalize her. I am very serious about doing this. I live in the woods, so I can make sure her body will never be found.”

A team of deputies left Brevard County for Joaquin, a town of less than 1,000 people near the Texas-Louisiana line. There they met Barter, who Ivey said showed up to their meeting with a knife and bags “to take the body parts out,” Ivey said.

“After his arrest and confession, after Miranda (rights) was given, he actually thanked the agents who were involved in the investigation for stopping him because he couldn’t stop himself,” Ivey said. “For me, it’s hard to imagine that we have monsters walking among us that are masquerading as humans, that are preying upon us and our children each and every day.”

Ivey declined to say what website Barter posted his ad on. The criminal complaint against him was sealed.

Barter is being held without bond in Texas, where he will be charged. He faces federal charges of criminal solicitation, criminal attempt of capital murder, conspiracy to commit capital murder, and criminal attempt of sexual performance of a child.