Dresden police have arrested a 55-year-old law enforcement official suspected of murdering a man in the Erz mountains of eastern Germany.

Detectives who spoke with the BBC said the two men were thought to have met through a website for people with cannibalism fetishes.

The deceased man was found at a secluded house in the mountains by the Czech border. The man, who lived in Hanover, was reported missing in the days prior to the discovery.

His body had been taken apart limb-by-limb, and the remains were stashed on a property in the mountains said to be owned by the suspect. According to investigators who spoke with the BBC, his body parts had been buried underground.

The suspected killer, who has been identified only as Detlef G, worked for the Saxony's State Office of Criminal Investigation as a handwriting analysis expert.

Not all of the victim's body parts were found, leading detectives to believe that the act might have been cannabalism-related.

The victim allegedly "had fantasized about being murdered and eaten since his youth," according to Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll. Police learned from a partial confession given by Detlef G that the two men met at the central train station in Dresden on November 4, and that the 59-year-old businessperson was killed shortly thereafter.

Officials managed to track down their online correspondence after the victim was reported missing by his business partner, BBC reported. The two men hadn't met prior to the time of the incident.