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31 attempted murders. He made no attempt to excuse his crimes but justified them on the basis of what he saw as the injustices he had endured throughout his life. Nonetheless, he was adamant he had not tortured any of his child victims. Kürten also admitted to both investigators and psychiatrists that the sight of his victim's blood was, on many occasions, sufficient to bring him to orgasm, and that, on occasion, if he experienced ejaculation in the act of strangling a woman, he would immediately become apologetic to his victim, proclaiming, "That's what love is all about". He further claimed to have drunk the blood from the throat of one victim, from the temple of another, and to have licked the blood from a third victim's hands. In the Hahn murder, he had drunk so much blood from the neck wound that he had vomited. Kürten also admitted to having decapitated a swan in the spring of 1930 in order that he could drink the blood from the animal's neck, achieving ejaculation in the process.
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853:. With his wife's consent, he found lodgings in the Adlerstraße district of Düsseldorf, and did not return to his own home until 23 May. Upon returning home, Kürten confessed to his wife he was the Vampire of Düsseldorf. He urged his wife to collect the substantial reward offered for his capture. Auguste Kürten contacted the police the following day. In the information provided to detectives, Kürten's wife explained that although she had known her husband had been repeatedly imprisoned in the past, she was unaware of his culpability in any murders. She then added that her husband had confessed to her his culpability in the Düsseldorf murders and that he was willing to likewise confess to the police. Furthermore, he was to meet her outside St. Rochus church later that day. That afternoon, Kürten was arrested at gunpoint.
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court, Kürten proclaimed: "I have no remorse. As to whether recollection of my deeds makes me feel ashamed, I will tell you thinking back to all the details is not at all unpleasant. I rather enjoy it." Further pressed as to whether he considered himself to possess a conscience, Kürten stated he did not. Nonetheless, when pressed as to his motivation in confessing, Kürten reiterated: "Why don't you understand that I am fond of my wife, and that I am still fond of her? I have done many wrongs; have been unfaithful over and over again. My wife has never done any wrong. Even when she heard of the many prison sentences I have served, she said: 'I won't let you down, otherwise you'll be lost altogether.' I wanted to fix for my wife a carefree old age."
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excitement with violent acts and the sight of blood via indulging in both day-dreams and masturbation fantasies — particularly when he had been isolated from human contact. The majority of his assaults and murders had been committed when his wife had been working evenings, and the number of stab or bludgeoning wounds Kürten inflicted upon each victim had varied depending upon the length of time it had taken him to achieve an orgasm. Furthermore, the sight of his victim's blood had been integral to his sexual stimulation. Kürten further elaborated to Berg that once he had committed an attack or murder, the feeling of tension he experienced before the commission of the crime would be superseded by one of relief.
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Düsseldorf police. This letter was read by Chief
Inspector Gennat, who assumed there was a slim chance Budlick's assailant might be the Düsseldorf murderer. Gennat interviewed Budlick, who recounted her ordeal, further divulging one of the reasons Kürten had spared her was because she had falsely informed him she could not remember his address. She agreed to lead the police to Kürten's home, on Mettmanner Straße. When the landlady of the property let Budlick into the room of 71 Mettmanner Straße, Budlick confirmed to Gennat that this was the address of her assailant. The landlady confirmed to the chief inspector the tenant's name was Peter Kürten.
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they had been assaulted and/or murdered, both the police and the press theorized the spate of assaults and murders were the work of more than one perpetrator. By the end of 1929, Düsseldorf police had received more than 13,000 letters from the public. With assistance from surrounding police forces, each lead was painstakingly pursued. As a result of this collective investigation into the killings, more than 9,000 individuals were interviewed, 2,650 other clues painstakingly pursued and a list of 900,000 different names were compiled upon an official potential suspect list.
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523:, I discovered a child of about 10 asleep. Her head was facing the window. I seized it with my left hand and strangled her for about a minute and a half. The child woke up and struggled but lost consciousness ... I had a small but sharp pocketknife with me and I held the child's head and cut her throat. I heard the blood spurt and drip on the mat beside the bed. It spurted in an arch, right over my hand. The whole thing lasted about three minutes. Then I locked the door again and went back home to Düsseldorf."
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487:. That autumn, Kürten began committing acts of arson, which he would discreetly watch from a distance as emergency services attempted to extinguish the fires. The majority of these fires were in barns and haylofts, and Kürten would admit to police he had committed around 24 acts of arson upon his arrest that New Year's Eve. He also freely admitted these fires had been committed both for his sexual excitement and in the hope of burning sleeping tramps alive.
766:. Here she was struck once across her right temple with a hammer, then raped. Kürten struck her repeatedly about the head and both temples with his hammer and left her for dead. Dörrier was found in a coma at 6:30 a.m. the following morning; she died from her injuries the following day. On 25 October, Kürten attacked two women with a hammer; both survived, although in the second instance, this may have been because Kürten's hammer broke in the attack.
954:, and 10 per cent revenge relating to his perceived sense of injustice for both the neglect and abuse he had endured both as a child and the discipline he endured while incarcerated. Moreover, Berg stated that despite Kürten's admission to having embraced and digitally penetrated the corpse of Maria Hahn, and to have spontaneously ejaculated while holding the soil covering the coffin of Christine Klein, his conclusion was that Kürten was not a
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blood. Elaborating, Kürten stated: "Whether I took a knife or a pair of scissors or a hammer in order to see blood was a matter of indifference to me or mere chance. Often after the hammer blows the bleeding victims moved and struggled, just as they did when they were throttled." Kürten further confided that although he had occasionally penetrated his female victims, he had only done so to feign the act of
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the prosecution suggesting these deaths indicated Kürten had displayed a homicidal propensity dating much earlier than 1913. However, this view was disputed by medical witnesses, who suggested that although indicative of inherent depravity, these two deaths should not be compared to Kürten's later murders as to a child, the death of a friend can be seen as nothing more than an inconsequential passing.
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form of revenge for the neglect and abuse he had endured as a child. These desires had fomented in his mind throughout the long periods he had been in solitary confinement for various forms of insubordination, and Kürten explained that he deliberately broke minor prison rules as a means of guaranteeing that he would be sentenced to solitary confinement in order that he could indulge in these
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and rubble. An analysis of the handwriting revealed the author was the same individual who had anonymously informed police in a letter dated 14 October that he had killed Hahn and buried her body "at the edge of the woods". Each of the three letters Kürten had thus far sent to newspapers and police describing his exploits and threatening further assaults and murders were examined by a
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early age, Kürten often ran away from home for periods of time ranging from days to weeks. Much of the time Kürten spent on the streets was in the company of petty criminals and social misfits. Via these acquaintances, Kürten was introduced to various forms of petty crime, which he initially committed as a means of feeding and clothing himself when living on the streets.
950:, who testified as to Kürten's motivation in his crimes being the desire to achieve the sexual gratification he demanded, and that this satisfaction could only be achieved by acts of brutality, violence and Kürten's knowledge of the pain and misery his actions caused to others. Berg testified that Kürten's motive in committing murder and attempted murder was 90 per cent
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thus supporting his contention Kürten possessed a diseased mind. In response, Berg conceded that sections of Kürten's confessions were false, but argued that the knowledge he possessed of the murder scenes and the wounds inflicted upon the victims left him in no doubt as to his guilt, and that the minor embellishments in his confessions could be attributed to Kürten's
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became apprehensive when he attempted to lead her through a scarcely populated park. The pair began to argue, whereupon another man approached the two, asking whether
Budlick was being pestered by her companion. When Budlick nodded, the man with whom she had been arguing simply walked away. The identity of the man who reportedly came to Budlick's aid was Peter Kürten.
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573:—Kürten broke into a home in Düsseldorf. Discovering a 17-year-old girl named Gertrud Franken asleep in her bed, Kürten manually strangled the girl, ejaculating at the sight of blood spouting from her mouth, before leaving the crime scene. Kürten managed to escape from the scene of this attempted murder and the earlier murder of Klein undetected.
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601:. Two years later, Kürten and Scharf married, and although the couple regularly engaged in sex, Kürten later admitted he could consummate his marriage only by fantasising about committing violence against another individual, and that, after their wedding night, he engaged in intercourse with his wife only at her invitation.
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Shortly before his head was placed on the guillotine, Kürten turned to the prison psychiatrist and asked the question: "Tell me... after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure
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On the evening of 30 September, Kürten encountered a 31-year-old servant girl named Ida Reuter at Düsseldorf station. He successfully persuaded Reuter to accompany him to a café, and then for a walk through the local
Hofgarten close to the Rhine River. At this location, he repeatedly struck her about
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Gertrude Schulte, whom he openly asked to engage in sex with him. Upon being rebuffed, Kürten shouted, "Well, die then!" before repeatedly stabbing the woman in the head, neck, shoulder, and back. Schulte survived her injuries, although
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official, although, with the exception of his wife, he formed no close friendships. In 1925, he returned with Scharf to Düsseldorf, where he soon began affairs with a servant girl named Tiede and a housemaid named Mech. Both women were frequently subjected to partial strangulation when they submitted
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of his crimes; his ability to abandon an attack if he sensed a risk of being disturbed; and his acute memory of both his crimes and their chronological detail. Also disclosed in the first week of the trial were the deaths of the two boys whom Kürten had confessed to drowning at the age of nine, with
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On 7 November 1929, Kürten encountered a 5-year-old girl named
Gertrude Albermann in the Flingern district of Düsseldorf; he persuaded the child to accompany him to a section of deserted allotments, where he seized her by the throat and strangled her, stabbing her once in the left temple with a pair
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Following the Hahn murder, Kürten changed his choice of weapon from scissors to a knife in an apparent effort to convince police more than one perpetrator was responsible for the unfolding crime spree. In the early morning of 21 August, he randomly stabbed an 18-year-old girl, a 30-year-old man, and
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On 3 February 1929, Kürten stalked a middle-aged woman named
Apollonia Kühn. Waiting until Kühn was shielded from the view of potential witnesses by bushes, Kürten pounced upon her, grabbing her by the lapels of her coat and shouting the words, "No row! Don't scream!" before dragging her into nearby
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Kürten freely admitted his guilt in all the crimes police had attributed to the
Vampire of Düsseldorf, and further confessed he had committed the unsolved murder of Christine Klein and the attempted murder of Gertrud Franken in 1913. In total, Kürten admitted to 68 crimes including nine murders and
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Vampire of Düsseldorf" were receiving considerable national and international attention. Due to the sheer savagery of the murders, the diverse backgrounds of the victims, and the differing methods in which
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Three months after Kürten had murdered Hahn, he posted an anonymous letter to the police in which he confessed to the murder, adding that her remains had been buried in a field. In this letter, Kürten also drew a crude map describing the location of the remains. This letter would prove sufficiently
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to drink in a tavern located directly opposite that in which he had murdered Klein, so that he could listen to the locals' reactions to the child's murder. He later recollected to investigators that he derived an extreme sense of gratification from the general disgust, repulsion, and outrage he had
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to each of the charges. Aside from when delivering testimony, Kürten would spend the duration of his trial surrounded by a heavily guarded shoulder-high iron cage specifically constructed to protect him from attack by the enraged relatives of his victims, and his feet were shackled whenever he was
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newspaper received a map revealing the location of the grave of Maria Hahn. In this drawing, Kürten also revealed precisely where he had left
Albermann's body (which had been found earlier that day), describing the exact position of her corpse, which he stated could be found face-down among bricks
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who lived in a one-bedroom apartment, and Kürten's father frequently beat his wife and children, particularly when he was drunk. When intoxicated, Kürten's father often forced his wife and children to assemble before him before ordering his wife to strip naked and have sex with him as his children
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Kürten became known as the "Vampire of Düsseldorf" because he occasionally made attempts to drink the blood from his victims' wounds, and the "Düsseldorf
Monster" both because the majority of his murders were committed in and around the city of Düsseldorf, and due to the savagery he inflicted upon
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In a further attempt to discredit the validity of many of the charges recited at the opening stages of the trial, Wehner also questioned whether the occasional physical inaccuracies of the crimes described in his client's confession equated to Kürten having fabricated at least some of the crimes,
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Proceedings began with the prosecution formally reciting each of the charges against Kürten before they recited the formal confession he had provided to police following his arrest. When then asked by the presiding judge to describe why he had continued to commit acts of arson throughout 1929 and
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However, Kürten contradicted these claims by proclaiming to both Berg and legal examiners that his primary motive in all his criminal activities was to both "strike back at oppressive society" for what he considered the injustice of his being repeatedly incarcerated throughout his life, and as a
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Although Kürten was not at home when Budlick and Gennat searched his property, he spotted the pair in the communal hallway and promptly left. Knowing that his identity was now known to the police and suspecting they may also have connected him to the crimes committed by the Vampire of Düsseldorf,
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The murder of Gertrude Albermann proved to be Kürten's final fatal attack, although he did engage in a spate of non-fatal hammer attacks and attempted strangulations between February and May 1930, maiming ten victims in these assaults. All the victims survived and many were able to describe their
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As a result of his desertion, Kürten was tried by the military court and convicted of desertion in addition to multiple counts of arson, robbery and attempted robbery (the latter charges pertaining to acts he had also committed that year), and was subsequently imprisoned from 1905 to 1913. Kürten
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Kürten later claimed to have committed his first murders at the age of nine, when he pushed a school friend whom he knew was unable to swim off a log raft. When a second boy attempted to save the drowning youngster, Kürten held his head under the water, so that both boys drowned. Both deaths were
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In 1888, Kürten attempted to drown one of his playmates. Four years later, he befriended a local dog-catcher who lived in the same building as his family and began accompanying him on his rounds. This individual often tortured and killed the animals he caught, and Kürten soon became an active and
973:, Kürten's defence attorney, Alex Wehner, did challenge these experts' conclusions, arguing the sheer range of perversions his client had engaged in was tantamount to insanity. However, each doctor and psychiatrist remained adamant as to Kürten being legally sane and responsible for his actions.
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1930, Kürten explained: "When my desire for injuring people awoke, the love of setting fire to things awoke as well. The sight of the flames excited me, but above all, it was the excitement of the attempts to extinguish the fire and the agitation of those who saw their property being destroyed."
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In reference to the choice of weapon used in his attacks, Kürten stressed that although he had changed his method of attack to deceive investigators into believing they were seeking more than one perpetrator, the weapon he used was inconsequential to his ultimate objective of seeing his victim's
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On 14 May 1930, an unknown man approached a 20-year-old woman named Maria Budlick at Düsseldorf station. Discovering Budlick had travelled to Düsseldorf from Köln in search of lodgings and employment, he offered to direct her towards a local hostel. Budlick agreed to follow the man, although she
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The first murder Kürten definitively committed occurred on 25 May 1913. During the course of a burglary at a tavern in Mülheim am Rhein, he encountered a nine-year-old girl named Christine Klein asleep in her bed. Kürten strangled the child, then slashed her twice across the throat with a pocket
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he had earlier developed while incarcerated in Derendorf expanded to include graphic fantasies of his striking out at society and killing masses of people; these fantasies became ever more paramount and overbearing in his mind, and Kürten later claimed that he derived the "sort of pleasures from
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Having first claimed that his initial confession had been simply to allow his wife to recoup the reward money offered for the capture of the Düsseldorf Vampire, several days into his trial, Kürten instructed his defence attorney that he wished to change his plea to one of guilty. Addressing the
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fantasies. To Berg and the legal examiners, Kürten did not deny that he had sexually molested his female victims, or to have stroked or digitally penetrated their genitals as he stabbed, slashed, strangled or bludgeoned their bodies, although throughout his trial Kürten consistently claimed the
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Budlick did not report this assault to police, but described her ordeal in a letter to a friend, although she addressed the letter incorrectly. As such, the letter was opened at the post office by a clerk on 19 May. Upon reading the contents of the letter, this clerk forwarded the letter to the
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Kürten invited the distressed young woman to his apartment on Mettmanner Straße to eat and drink before Budlick—correctly deducing the underlying motive for Kürten's hospitality—stated she was uninterested in engaging in sex with him. Kürten calmly agreed and offered to lead Budlick to a hotel,
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body as he lay beneath her remains. He then reburied Hahn's body. According to Kürten's later confession, both before and after he had attempted to impale Hahn's corpse to a tree, he "went to the grave many times and kept improving on it; and every time I thought of what was lying there and was
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Just days after the attempted murder of Franken, on 14 July, Kürten was arrested for a series of arson attacks and burglaries. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment, although his repeated instances of insubordination, while imprisoned, saw his incarceration extended by a further two years.
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As Kürten awaited his trial, then later as he awaited his execution, he was extensively interviewed by Karl Berg. In these interviews, Kürten stated to Berg that his primary motive in committing any form of criminal activity was one of sexual pleasure, and that he had begun to associate sexual
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The trial lasted ten days. On 22 April, the jury retired to consider their verdict. They deliberated for under two hours before reaching their verdict: Kürten was found guilty and sentenced to death on nine counts of murder. He was also found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder. Kürten
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Hahn died approximately one hour after Kürten had begun attacking her. Fearful his wife might connect the bloodstains she had noted on his clothes with Hahn's murder, Kürten later buried her body in a cornfield, only to return to her body several weeks later with the intention of nailing her
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district of Düsseldorf at dusk, that each victim had received a multitude of stab wounds likely inflicted in rapid succession and invariably involving at least one wound to the temple, plus the absence of a common motive such as robbery, led investigators to conclude the same perpetrator had
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Kürten's claims. If this attack did take place, the victim likely survived this assault. Nonetheless, Kürten later stated that, via his committing this act, he had proven to himself that the greatest heights of sexual ecstasy could only be achieved in this manner.
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the head with a hammer both before and after he had raped her. At one stage in this assault, Reuter regained consciousness and began pleading with Kürten to spare her life. In response, Kürten simply "gave her other hammer blows on the head and misused her".
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to intercourse, with Tiede once being informed by Kürten, "That's what love means." When his wife discovered his infidelity, Tiede reported Kürten to police, claiming he had seduced her; Mech alleged Kürten had raped her. The more serious charge was later
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On 8 February, Kürten strangled a nine-year-old girl named Rosa Ohliger into unconsciousness before stabbing her in the stomach, temple, genitals and heart with a pair of scissors, spontaneously ejaculating as he knifed the child. He then inserted his
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heard in the patrons' conversations. Moreover, in the weeks following Klein's funeral, Kürten occasionally travelled to Mülheim am Rhein to visit the child's grave, adding that when he handled the soil covering the grave, he spontaneously ejaculated.
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At the age of 13, Kürten formed a relationship with a girl his age and, although she allowed Kürten to undress and fondle her, she would resist any attempts he made to engage in intercourse. To relieve his sexual urges, Kürten resorted to acts of
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although he instead lured her into the Grafenburg Woods, where he seized her by the throat and attempted to strangle her as he raped her. When Budlick began to scream, Kürten released his grasp on her throat, before allowing her to leave.
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a 37-year-old woman in separate attacks. All three were seriously wounded, and all stated to police their assailant had not spoken a word to them before he had attacked them. Three days later, at a fairground in the suburb of
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in order that he could kill her; he later admitted Hahn had repeatedly pleaded with him to spare her life as he alternately strangled her, stabbed her in the chest and head, or sat astride her body, waiting for her to
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to the Minister of Justice, who was a known opponent of capital punishment. The petition was formally rejected on 1 July. Kürten remained composed upon receipt of this news, and asked for permission to see his
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in an attempt to explain his personality and behaviour. The examinations of Kürten's brain revealed no abnormalities. The autopsy conducted upon Kürten's body revealed that, aside from his having an
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as a motive for his crimes. He also confessed that many of his later strangulation victims had only survived his attacks because he had achieved an orgasm in the early throes of the assault.
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to shock and disgust the public; however, Hahn's remains proved too heavy for Kürten to complete this act, and he simply returned her corpse to her grave before embracing and caressing the
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as the sentence was passed, although in his final address to the court, he stated that he now saw his crimes as being "so ghastly that not want to make any sort of excuse for them".
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into her vagina with his fingers. Kürten then made a rudimentary effort to hide Ohliger's body by dragging it beneath a hedge before returning to the scene with a bottle of
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several hours later and setting the child's body alight, achieving an orgasm at the sight of the flames. Ohliger's body was found beneath a hedge the following day.
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is a play focusing on the case of Peter Kürten. Scripted by Anthony Neilson, the play was first performed at Edinburgh's
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Despite the differences in age and sex of these three victims, the fact that all three crimes had been committed in the
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to end all pleasures." When asked whether he had any last words to say, Kürten simply smiled and replied, "No".
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was released in March 1951. Directly inspired by the 1931 film of the same name, this remake was directed by
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these visions that other people would get from thinking about a naked woman", adding that he occasionally
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The Criminals We Deserve: A Survey of Some Aspects of Crime in the Modern World
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The first film to draw inspiration from the murders committed by Peter Kürten,
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he demanded of her. He was apprehended four weeks later and charged with both
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detailed to enable investigators to locate Hahn's remains on 15 November.
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Peter Kürten, recounting the murder of Christine Klein at his trial, 1931
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The World's Most Evil Murderers: Real-Life Stories of Infamous Killers
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The World's Most Evil Murderers: Real-Life Stories of Infamous Killers
3286:(in German) (20 ed.). Berlin, Germany: Oldenbourg. p. 432.
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Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-eating Murderers
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Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-eating Murderers
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Cannibal Serial Killers: Profiles of Depraved Flesh-eating Murderers
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Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea
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is based on the crimes of Peter Kürten. Directed by Julius Ševčík,
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Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten
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Kürten served this sentence in a military prison in the town of
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3227:. San Francisco, California: Ulysses Press. pp. 192–193.
2994:"On Film: Fritz Lang's 1931 Film M 'First' in Many Categories"
1699:. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: RJ Parker Publishing. p. 24.
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and the attempted murder of a 17-year-old girl in Düsseldorf.
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The Monster of Düsseldorf: The Life and Trial of Peter Kürten
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The Monster of Düsseldorf: The Life and Trial of Peter Kürten
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was also inspired by the then-recent and notorious crimes of
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Whittington-Egan, Richard; Whittington-Egan, Molly (1992).
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from his employer, and ran away from home. He relocated to
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sexual assault of his victims was not his primary motive.
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3739:. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing Ltd. pp. 102–103.
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Two days after the murder of Gertrude Albermann, a local
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to serve in the 98th Infantry Regiment, although he soon
1586:. Isle of Man: Nemesis Publications. pp. 194–197.
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in April 1931. He was executed in July 1931 at age 48.
3642:. Reading, Berkshire: Bantam Books. pp. 106–119.
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
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Monsters of Weimar: Kürten, the Vampire of Düsseldorf
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peret Kürten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peret Kürten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kurten
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
1672:. Catskill, New York: Magpie Books. pp. 392–393.
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Monster: The True Story of Serial Killer Peter Kürten
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Monsters of Weimar: Kürten, the Vampire of Düsseldorf
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People executed by the Weimar Republic by guillotine
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Wilson, Colin; Wilson, Damon; Wilson, Rowan (1993).
2242:"Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Dusseldorf/The Crimes"
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of Kürten's crimes, and was first broadcast in 2001.
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The Great Pictorial History of World Crime, Volume 2
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1329:Wilson, Colin; Wilson, Damon; Wilson, Rowan (1993)
1014:On the evening of 1 July 1931, Kürten received his
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2780:Philbin, Tom; Philbin, Michael (1 January 2009).
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1647:(in German). Nemesis Publications. p. 286.
1049:Following Kürten's 1931 execution, his head was
3596:. London, England: Eaglemoss Publications Ltd.
2500:. crimeandinvestigation.co.uk. 10 December 2015
2396:"1931: Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Dusseldorf"
2376:. crimeandinvestigation.co.uk. 10 December 2015
2244:. crimeandinvestigation.co.uk. 10 December 2015
1798:. crimeandinvestigation.co.uk. 10 December 2015
348:Peter Kürten was born into a poverty-stricken,
2876:. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger. p.
1373:has since become the inspiration for one film.
369:willing participant in torturing the animals.
3827:detailing the life and crimes of Peter Kürten
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3760:. Paragon Publishing, 2006. pp. 20–24.
3415:. London: Broadway Press. pp. 159–289.
3282:Raphael, Lutz; Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar (2006).
3051:Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
1025:At 06:00 on 2 July, Kürten was beheaded via
593:Released in April 1921, Kürten relocated to
3940:People with antisocial personality disorder
3905:German people convicted of attempted murder
3434:. London: Nemesis Books. pp. 159–289.
1413:List of serial killers by number of victims
1151:as the child killer, renamed Martin Harrow.
902:Kürten, pictured at his trial in April 1931
3468:Cawthorne, Nigel; Tibballs, Geoff (1993).
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1612:Cawthorne, Nigel; Tibballs, Geoff (1994).
844:of Kürten, taken after his May 1930 arrest
377:ruled by authorities as being accidental.
273:; 26 May 1883 – 2 July 1931) was a German
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3619:. New York City: Berkley Books. pp.
3364:"Review of Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper"
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3139:"Speech to Court: Peter Kürten's Trial"
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3776:. London: Parragon. pp. 389–394.
3701:. Newfoundland: RJ Parker Publishing.
3518:. Virginia: Time-Life Books. pp.
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1331:The Giant Book of World Famous Murders
1029:in the grounds of Klingelputz Prison,
512:while preoccupied with such thoughts.
215:25 May 1913 – 7 November 1929
3915:People convicted of murder by Germany
3795:. London: Pan Books. pp. 53–54.
3684:. New York: Oxford University Press.
3665:. Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishing.
3611:Lane, Brian; Gregg, Wilfred (1995) .
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48:Mugshot of Peter Kürten taken in 1931
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3680:Rhodes, Henry Taylor Fowkes (1937).
3430:Berg, Karl; Godwin, George (1993) .
2942:"Peter Kürten: German Serial Killer"
2398:. executedtoday.com. 7 February 2012
1833:"Peter Kürten: German Serial Killer"
446:No contemporaneous records exist to
1274:Lane, Brian; Gregg, Wilfred (1992)
1188:is a film adaptation of playwright
3945:People with sexual sadism disorder
3615:The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers
1725:The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
1276:The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
1225:Berg, Karl; Godwin, George (1937)
25:
3900:German people convicted of murder
3823:Crime & Investigation Network
3453:. London: PRC. pp. 105–107.
2996:. arkansasonline.com. 21 May 2010
1408:List of serial killers by country
495:, with much of his time spent in
475:; he was deployed to the city of
3716:Wagner, Margaret Seaton (1932).
1553:Wagner, Margaret Seaton (1932).
29:German serial killer (1883–1931)
3539:Peter Kürten: A Study In Sadism
3405:Cited works and further reading
3263:. biography.com. 29 August 2016
3223:Berry-Dee, Christopher (2011).
3179:Myers, Dan (26 February 2015).
2822:. biography.com. 29 August 2016
2600:. biography.com. 29 August 2016
2111:. biography.com. 29 August 2016
1269:Peter Kürten: A Study In Sadism
3935:People from the Rhine Province
3880:Executed German serial killers
3451:Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
890:and competent to stand trial.
426:The courtyard of Düsseldorf's
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3870:20th-century German criminals
3558:. London: Hamlyn Publishing.
3366:. cix.co.uk. 21 November 2003
1403:Capital punishment in Germany
1385:Profiles of the Criminal Mind
1371:Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper
1363:Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper
1195:Normal: The Düsseldorf Ripper
3895:German murderers of children
3657:Ramsland, Katherine (2011).
3474:. London: Boxtree. pp.
2868:Ramsland, Katherine (2011).
1241:; Tibballs, Geoffrey (1993)
3493:Cummins, Joseph S. (2001).
3388:. bbc.co.uk. 31 August 2001
1083:Ripley's Believe It or Not!
702:filled with satisfaction."
468:, a borough of Düsseldorf.
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3515:Serial Killers: True Crime
3342:"The Secret Killer (1965)"
2337:Serial Killers: True Crime
1929:Serial Killers: True Crime
1087:Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
3920:People convicted of theft
3818:article upon Peter Kürten
3638:Lloyd, Georgina (1993) .
1582:Lessing, Theodor (1993).
1557:. Boston, Massachusetts:
1387:, largely focuses on the
1165:The Vampire of Düsseldorf
804:, chief inspector of the
279:The Vampire of Düsseldorf
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130:Vengeance against society
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108:The Vampire of Düsseldorf
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3537:Godwin, George (1945) .
3449:Blundell, Nigel (1996).
3261:"Peter Kürten Biography"
2820:"Peter Kürten Biography"
2598:"Peter Kürten Biography"
2109:"Peter Kürten Biography"
1287:Nash, Jay Robert (2004)
1160:Le Vampire de Düsseldorf
979:narcissistic personality
817:attacker to the police.
762:, to walk alongside the
577:Imprisonment and release
510:spontaneously ejaculated
3512:Foreman, Laura (1992).
3497:. London: Lyons Press.
3344:. imdb.com. 18 May 2015
3322:. imdb.com. 3 July 2004
2946:Encyclopædia Britannica
1316:; Wilson, Damon (2006)
770:of scissors as per his
491:served his sentence in
270:[ˈpeːtɐˈkʏʁtn̩]
99:Execution by guillotine
3865:1929 murders in Europe
3860:1929 crimes in Germany
3791:Wynn, Douglas (1996).
3697:Swinney, C.L. (2016).
3386:"Catching the Killers"
2940:Jenkins, John Philip.
1695:Swinney, C.L. (2016).
1668:Wilson, Colin (2005).
1267:Godwin, George (1938)
1033:. His executioner was
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418:First attempted murder
110:The Düsseldorf Monster
3890:German male criminals
3720:. Faber & Faber.
2928:Real-Life Crimes 1993
2322:Real-Life Crimes 1993
2307:Real-Life Crimes 1993
2133:Real-Life Crimes 1993
2096:Real-Life Crimes 1993
1740:Real-Life Crimes 1993
1559:E.P. Dutton & Co.
1342:Wynn, Douglas (1996)
1300:Swinney, C.L. (2016)
1063:enlarged thymus gland
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833:Arrest and confession
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412:breaking and entering
335:his victims' bodies.
204:Attempted murder: 31+
178:Threatening behaviour
162:Breaking and entering
3836:at executedtoday.com
3833:Peter Kürten's entry
3774:World Famous Murders
3554:Hall, Angus (1976).
3411:Berg, Karl (1945) .
2786:. Sourcebooks, Inc.
2710:World Famous Murders
2585:World Famous Murders
2573:World Famous Murders
2181:World Famous Murders
1887:World Famous Murders
1771:World Famous Murders
1670:World Famous Murders
992:displayed no emotion
665:of the perpetrator.
661:to remark as to the
497:solitary confinement
473:Imperial German Army
319:as "the king of the
127:sexual gratification
82:Klingelputz Prison,
3930:People from Mülheim
3793:On Trial For Murder
3592:Lane, Bran (1993).
3577:. WSIC EBooks Ltd.
3248:On Trial for Murder
1344:On Trial For Murder
1254:Elder, Sace (2010)
1173:Marie-France Pisier
963:premeditated nature
861:Psychological study
764:Kleine Düssel river
211:Span of crimes
95:Cause of death
3737:The Murder Almanac
3640:One Was Not Enough
3307:Monsters of Weimar
3167:Monsters of Weimar
3126:One was Not Enough
3102:Monsters of Weimar
3075:Monsters of Weimar
3063:Monsters of Weimar
3039:Monsters of Weimar
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2756:Monsters of Weimar
2691:Monsters of Weimar
2679:One was Not Enough
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1980:Monsters of Weimar
1968:Monsters of Weimar
1956:One was Not Enough
1944:Monsters of Weimar
1858:Monsters of Weimar
1839:. 26 November 2006
1783:Monsters of Weimar
1683:Monsters of Weimar
1541:Monsters of Weimar
1529:Monsters of Weimar
1517:The Murder Almanac
1389:forensic profiling
1212:Berg, Karl (1938)
1077:Shortly after the
911:inside this cage.
908:reason of insanity
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728:sexually assaulted
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586:(then part of the
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325:sentenced to death
283:Düsseldorf Monster
3950:Vampirism (crime)
3802:978-0-3303-3947-6
3783:978-0-752-50122-2
3766:978-1-405-48828-0
3756:; Wilson, Damon.
3727:978-0-598-79711-7
3708:978-1-987-90215-0
3672:978-0-313-38672-5
3630:978-0-425-15213-3
3603:978-1-856-29960-2
3584:978-1-927-52688-0
3541:. London: Acorn.
3529:978-0-7835-0001-0
3504:978-1-422-35153-6
3422:978-9-333-35227-7
3234:978-1-569-75902-8
3189:. New York City:
2887:978-0-313-38672-5
2793:978-1-402-24162-8
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3000:15 February
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2380:21 February
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1982:pp. 274-275
1843:10 February
1773:pp. 393–394
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1119:Peter Lorre
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670:Rhine River
556:ejaculating
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381:Adolescence
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251:24 May 1930
202:Murders: 9+
75:2 July 1931
57:26 May 1883
3844:Categories
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3547:B00191ENHA
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3392:19 January
3370:19 January
3320:"M (1951)"
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2826:24 January
2604:23 January
1705:B01M0ZMVIV
1504:References
1475:psychopath
1378:Television
1214:The Sadist
1138:remake of
1111:Fritz Lang
1085:museum in
1071:The Sadist
1027:guillotine
985:Conviction
760:Grafenberg
688:Maria Hahn
674:Neandertal
462:indictment
441:strangling
388:bestiality
358:alcoholics
352:family in
339:Early life
291:Düsseldorf
151:(7 counts)
146:(9 counts)
3326:19 August
2431:pp. 61-63
2402:3 January
1154:The 1965
1055:mummified
1045:Aftermath
1016:last meal
1010:Execution
1004:confessor
842:Mug shots
793:communist
595:Altenburg
466:Derendorf
437:Hofgarten
428:Hofgarten
344:Childhood
329:beheading
310:Karl Berg
170:Seduction
3875:Burglars
3825:article
3186:Fox News
3149:31 March
2248:11 March
1802:11 March
1396:See also
1156:thriller
1117:starred
1051:bisected
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640:kerosene
485:deserted
481:Lorraine
231:State(s)
166:Burglary
124:Sadistic
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3471:Killers
1487:claims.
1452:profile
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716:pfennig
611:dropped
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536:Murders
493:Münster
404:Koblenz
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188:Death
174:Theft
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