THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS: Volume One A-D by Susan Hall

Author:Susan Hall [Hall, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Published: 2020-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Butcher of Berlin

Grossman, Georg Karl

Butcher of Berlin/Beast of the Railway Station aka Grossman, Georg Karl/Grossmann, Carl Frederick Wilhelm (December 13, 1863 – July 5, 1921) was a German serial killer. He was arrested when police in Berlin answered a call from neighbors reporting screams and banging noises coming from Grossmann’s apartment. The police found the body of a young woman on the bed. She had been murdered just moments before they arrived. Grossman was arrested and jailed.

During their investigation, authorities found that many women who appeared destitute entered Grossman’s apartment, but few left. It was also learned that during World War I, Grossmann sold meat on the black market and had a hot-dog stand at the nearby train station. It is believed that the meat came from the remains of his victims. How many people did Grossman murder and mutilate? It will never be known. Grossman committed suicide while awaiting execution, on July 5, 1922, by hanging himself in his cell. The suspected number of his victims ranges from 26 to more than 50.

Butcher of Hanover/Hanover Werewolf aka Haarmann, Friedrich Heinrich (October 25, 1879 – April 15, 1925) was born the sixth child of poor parents. He was a quiet child who preferred his sisters’ toys to sports or boys’ things. At age 16, he was enrolled in a military academy, but after one year, he was discharged due to seizures. He returned to Hanover and obtained work at a cigar factory. Arrested in 1898 for molesting children, he was sent to a mental institution. He escaped after six months and went to Switzerland. He returned to Germany about two years later and again enlisted in the military, but under an assumed name. In 1902, again he was discharged for medical reasons. Although he was given a full military pension, he lived the life of a petty thief, burglar, con artist, and serial killer. He was arrested, convicted of thefts and frauds, and sent to prison in 1914. He was released in 1918, became a police informant, and turned to murder.

In September 1918, he murdered his first victim, Friedel Rothe, age 17. During the investigation, Haarmann was found in his apartment with a semi-naked teenage boy. He was charged with sexual assault and sentenced to nine months in prison. When he was released, he found a lover, Hans Grans, and they moved in together.

In the space of six years, Haarmann murdered at least 24 young men and boys, and was suspected of three more. His victims ranged in age from 13 to 22. They were commuters, runaways, and a few male prostitutes. He lured them away from the street or the railway station and murdered them by biting through their throats. His victims were dismembered before disposal and most were thrown into the River Leine. Their possessions were either kept by Haarmann or Grans, or sold on the black market. It was rumored that Haarmann sold the meat from the bodies as canned pork, although there is no evidence to support this rumor.

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