Serial Killer of Women Arrested in Germany

[Jimmy H.]

This article from the Deutsche Welle website is obviously a bad translation from the German original, but the only other article I found in English, from the Belfast Telegraph, was not as detailed. I will not comment on the phrasing ("most of the victims were prostitutes he killed for sexual reasons"?) nor the unfortunate juxtaposition, on the sidebar, with a "Quiz" feature illustrated by a picture of multicolour condoms.

Source: http://www. dw-world. de/dw/article/0,2144,2397636,00.html



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Crime | 21.03.2007

Border-Crossing Alleged Serial Killer Faces Trial in Germany


A German truck driver suspected of 19 murders in three countries will be prosecuted in Germany, European justice officials ruled.

Volker E. killed his first victim when he was 15, according to German police. Then prosecutors said he they believe he went on a killing spree that lasted 30 years, victimized 19 and spanned three countries before he was caught dumping a body of a strangled prostitute as by a private Spanish company's security camera.

The 48-year-old truck driver, who is suspected of murder in France, Germany and Spain, was arrested by authorities in November in Cologne after a Spanish warrant was issued for his arrest, according to Eurojust, the European justice coordination agency based in the Hague.

"He is suspected of having committed at least 19 murders between 1974 and 2006," agency officials said, adding that most of the victims were prostitutes he killed for sexual reasons.



Evidence found


After the suspect was confronted, he admitted to four murders in Spain and two in France as well as his first in Germany, in 1974, of a 14-year-old female schoolmate in Plauen, agency officials said.

Also, when the suspect was picked up, German police found hair, clothing and photos of murdered French and Spanish prostitutes, they said.

The crimes took place in the Spanish regions of Barcelona and Figueras and Saintes and Reims in France, Eurojust said, adding that other unsolved cases in Europe were being investigated.

The truck driver traveled regularly outside his native Germany, usually to France and Spain.


"We got him."


After the suspect was apprehended, German authorities appealed to Eurojust to rule on the case because of looming conflicts with French and Spanish authorities over jurisdiction.

"There was intense pressure especially on the Spanish authorities to bring this man to justice," Bamberg prosecutor Johannes Schmitt told Frankenpost. "There is enormous public interest in the case."

Afterward, Eurojust decided this February that because German law that allows German citizens to be prosecuted for crimes committed in and outside of Germany, Volker E. should be prosecuted in Germany for all the murders he is known to have committed so far.

The prosecutor in the German city of Hof, the suspect's hometown, hailed Eurojust's decision to give Germany the authority to prosecute the alleged serial killer.

"The Spanish wanted him, the French wanted him," Schmitt added. "But us Germans got him."

DW staff (jb)

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[Andrew]

How many people do you have to kill before you can be tried for genocide????

[gerry]

Or femicide.

76% of serial killers are from the good ol' U.S. of A.

84% of serial killers are white.

90% of serial killers are men

66% of serial killer's victims are women.

89% of serial killer's victims are white.

94% of serial killers are in their thirties or younger.

86% of serial killers are heterosexual.

80% of serial killers enjoy hard-core pornography.

Prostitutes are the most common serial killer victims .

15% of serial murder victims were said to have been chosen entirely at random.

[Andrew]

Not doubting you, but are only 90% of serial killers men? I've never heard of a female serial killer, but I'm not a news hound or anything. I assume under heterosexual you include those who are primarily pedophiles.

[Cellycel]

Oh yeah, there are female serialkillers. MRA's actually get mad because the female serial killers aren't publicized as much as male ones.

(Could it be that male serial killers are %90 of the total, and not 'discrimination against zaaamenzzzz' that we hearmore about the male serialkillers?

Sheesh)

[gerry]

Oh yeah, there are female serialkillers. MRA's actually get mad because the female serial killers aren't publicized as much as male ones.

(Could it be that male serial killers are %90 of the total, and not 'discrimination against zaaamenzzzz' that we hearmore about the male serialkillers?

Sheesh)

The only female "serial killers" i know about are prostitutes who off violent users as did the woman portrayed in the movie "Monster." There may actually be no female serial killers in the normal usage of the term.

i sd add too that altho two-thirds of the actual murdered are women, many of the rest, if not all, are viewed as female or femme by the perpetrator.

[Cellycel]

Before I ever looked into feminism I was mildly interested in serial killers, so I've seen things on female serial killers before, they've been documented throughout history. There are some really interesting cases actually. I've definitely read accounts of female serial killers who weren't prostitutes offing abusers, like Helene Jegado.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne_ Jegado

There's a little link there giving the names of some of the serial killers. http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/428/428lect11. htm

I once read something which stated the reasons serial killers kill, but I'm unable to find it now. There were things on the list which definitely fit the male gender such as a socialized sense of superiority etc.

There was only one of the things in this list that women could fit into, and that was genuine mental problems (Apparently injury to the frontal lobe.)

Here's an essay about the frontal lobe thing: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/n ... rutigliano. html

I feel like I'm arguing semantics though. There are female serial killers in the classic sense of the term, but, why does that matter?

That doesn't stop the vast, vast majority of serial killers being men, and the vast, vast majority of victims being women.

Femicide it is. <3

[gerry]

I guess one can look at this at two entirely different angles:

1) (mine above) part of the media's backlash on feminism is to focus on the "women do it too" thing. from that perspective the percentage of women should be as high as possible.

2) the amazon resistance angle. these attackers get hidden so that femininity can continue to hold maximum sway. (why many wife murderers do not serve too much time--viewed as an aberration from femininity--which de-politicizes the crime)

but in talking about the last 4 decades or so, i think the first makes more sense, because dead men get investigated long before dead prostitutes do. and i think it was jane caputi who has dubbed it the "age of the serial killer." (her stats on the number of women victims on the early pages of her book are staggering)

[Cellycel]

Oh there's a very big 'women do it too' trying to shift the blame away from men, and, don't get me wrong.

I think that whole 'saying our gender does bad things is making young boys grow up with a low self esteem, so we have to show that women are bad too' thing is a crock.

How about trying to stop the 'bad thing? You know what I'm saying, activly speaking out against rape, DV etc. Why not make the actions of your own gender better, rather then marring women so you can feel good? Isn't there more productive, helpful things MRA's could do? If they wanted equality, couldn't they try and aim for that, instead of mud slinging and being 'anti-feminists'