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In a disturbing new interview, French murderer and self-proclaimed cannibal Nico Claux, known as The Vampire of Paris, has detailed how his fascination with death spiraled into real-life cannibalism and murder. Now 53, Claux was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing a man in 1994 but served just over seven years. Speaking on the Anything Goes podcast with James English, Claux revealed how his childhood curiosity turned into a gruesome obsession. 

Claux said his fixation with death began at age 10, following the death of his grandfather. Two years later, he read about Issei Sagawa, the Japanese cannibal who murdered and ate a Dutch woman in Paris in 1981. “I started having fantasies about biting, tearing flesh apart with my teeth. It was a fetish,” he said.

As a teenager, Claux began to romanticize death and blood, claiming that by age 17, he had developed a full-blown fetish for blood. Seeking to be closer to death, he took a job as a morgue worker, where he found ways to indulge his growing compulsion.

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From Morgue Worker To Cannibal

Claux explained that in France at the time, morgue workers didn’t require formal qualifications, just interest and basic medical training. Working alone during autopsies, he secretly cut strips of flesh from corpses and ate them.

“At first, I ate it raw,” Claux confessed. “Then I started taking small pieces home to cook in different ways.”

But that thrill wasn’t enough. Claux said his obsession escalated, and he eventually committed murder to satisfy his cravings. He described the act not as hunger, but as an “arousal-driven high,” comparing the feeling to an addiction.

Arrest And Grisly Discoveries

Claux was caught after trying to cash a forged cheque belonging to his victim. During a search of his Paris apartment, police found horrifying evidence, bags of blood, skulls, human remains, and even an altar made of bones and fetuses. He was convicted in 1997 and served seven years before his release. 

After his release, Claux reportedly worked in morgues for over a decade and has since become a controversial figure online, often discussing his crimes and art inspired by death.

Asked what human flesh tastes like, Claux said it reminded him of horse meat but added, “It wasn’t about the taste, it was about the rush, the sensation. It kept me on a high.”

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