Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confessing to eleven murders, to seven attempted murders, to a grand total of nearly 100 crimes, Peter Kuerten, a workman aged 47, sat in a neat blue serge suit, in the dock at Düsseldorf last week. A year and a half ago all Germany shuddered at the gruesome exploits of the "Düssel-dorf Murderer." Until he was jailed Düsseldorf children went to school in busses guarded by policemen with pistols (TIME, Jan. 13, June...
...kill," confessed the Düsseldorf Murderer with stark simplicity. "Anybody would do as a victim. It was all the same to me whether they were women or girls or children...
...floral trophies. He varied this by painting band wagons, houses, campaign posters. Artist Luks still insists that he helped found one soapmaker's fortune by painting his signs on the sides of old-fashioned grocery stores. He saved enough to study painting in Philadelphia, in Paris, Düsseldorf, London...
After 24 hours of the kind of treatment police know how to give a suspect, Peter Kuerten confessed to some seven murders and six attacks on Düsseldorf women and girls. Since this would account for more than half the "vampire crimes," the police called it a day, gave their well-badgered prisoner a rest. Said he: "The quicker I lose my head now, the happier I shall...
About the crimes of Düsseldorf's coachman there was nothing remarkable, except that for 16 months their author invariably escaped. His weapon was a common penknife. Walking up to a woman in some secluded spot he would address her courteously, watch his chance to seize her with a firm, stifling grip. In a nearby shelter of some sort?always carefully chosen? Coachman Kuerten would then deal with his victim, usually ending by hacking her lifeless body into an almost unrecognizable state with his penknife...