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...Well," said the Düsseldorf Murderer, scratching his head, trying to think back 38 years, "I remember that for a long time after that I was afraid of dark places...

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

Eventually the prisoner was convicted of nine murders and?as though he were a cat?was sentenced nine times to death by the thoroughgoing Düsseldorf Court...

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

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...

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

...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...

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

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lusty Luks | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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