Eduard Seleznev, 51, of Arkhangelsk, Russia, was convicted of killing his friends after a court heard how he stabbed the men to death after they passed out from drinking too much alcohol.
He admitted during his trial that he boiled the bodies of his friends and used parts of the meat to prepare food for himself.
His victims, aged 59, 43, and 34, were hacked apart to separate the body parts he wanted to feast on before discarding the rest in a local river.
The bloodthirsty serial killer admitted to storing the select cuts of human meat in plastic bags.
Known as the ‘cannibal of Arkhangelsk’, a court of first instance sentenced him to life in prison for the murders that took place between 2016 and 2017.
However, after the brazen cannibal’s lawyers appealed the decision, it was left to Russia’s highest court, which upheld the sentence this week.
The court heard that Seleznev’s strange eating habits also included cooking local cats and dogs, as well as birds and other small animals found on the streets.
He even moved into the apartment of one of his victims and told the man’s parents that their son had gone to work in another city.
Seleznev told the same story to police officers who launched an investigation into missing persons.
When the bodies were finally discovered, police said the advanced state of decomposition and the condition after they had been partially severed made identification difficult.
Reports say that the serial killer had previously been charged with a double murder in the past; however, he was released after serving 13 years in jail.
The Russian criminal code does not include cannibalism, so the defendant was tried for murder and misuse of body parts of the victims.
He was ordered to stand trial after psychiatrists found him sane and fully responsible for his actions.
The Russian Supreme Court, after re-evaluating all the evidence, has sentenced Seleznev to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
