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Example: As an afterthought Peter Kuerten said: "I suppose my first murder was really committed when I was a boy of nine. I pushed two of my playmates into the Rhine and kept them under water with a pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...with a dagger," objected Peter Kuerten. "I used one blade from a pair of scissors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...never did," concluded Peter Kuerten wistfully, "and I suppose now I never shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...judge droned monotonously "death . . . death . . . death . . . death . . . death . . . death . . . death . . . death . . . death," even crazy Peter Kuerten gradually became excited, volunteered at last his first expression of real remorse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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