So, he went looking for them and found out from someone they would get high under a bridge with two homeless men who lived under there. He visited the bridge and there as he was told, were the two homeless men that lived there but his ex-partner and her new man were nowhere to be seen. Metheny describes as seeing them passed out on a dirty mattress under the bridge and says that is where he left them, except they were now chopped up with an axe he had used. That night, he lured down two women one after the other under the bridge. He tried to get information out of them on where his ex-partner was though neither of them would tell him anything of use. Therefore, he beat them, raped them and then killed them, hiding them both in the bushes. It was then when Metheny noticed a fisherman staring right at him. Metheny grabbed a steel pipe and ran after him, hitting him over the head and killing him. He took the man and the two women he had just raped and killed and threw them into the river, weighing them down with rocks so they wouldn’t be found. It was a very busy night for Joseph Metheny after killing 5 people in the space of a few hours. He washed himself in the river and tried to clean up the crime scene, however in just over 2 weeks he was arrested and charged with the murders of the two homeless men he had killed that night. He spent almost 18 months in Baltimore City Jail waiting for the case to go to trial. Though when it finally did, it only lasted a week and was then thrown out due to the lack of evidence available. So, Joseph Metheny was free again to search for his ex-partner and her new man. 

After his release, Metheny managed to acquire his old job back at the pallet company and got to stay in the trailer on the companies isolated site. He lured a woman to his trailer this time, had sex with her and then strangled her to death. He said in court when asked how he strangled her, “with my hands” he said. When pushed if he used anything else, he said, “I used an extension cord. I took the end of the cord, strangled her, she was passed out”. He did this again to another woman and butchered them. He cut up their bodies and stored pieces in Tupperware bowls in his freezer. With the rest of the remains, he buried them in several shallow graves in the wooded area next to the company lot. This included their clothes and a purse, belonging to one of the women. Many argue whether Metheny should have been convicted of robbery on one of the woman’s possessions, but some say the robbery occurred after the killing and was therefore incidental to it. 

Over the next few weeks, Joseph Metheny opened up a burger van on the weekends. There he sold burgers and beef and pork sandwiches. He said the human body tastes very similar to pork and when mixed together, no one could tell the difference. However, he eventually ran out of ‘special meat’.