Killer lies dead in cell: Munich investigators recall brutal series

Update November 12, 4:27 pm: the Killer Woman Horst David wrote this phrase years ago cell at JVA Straubing. “There are people who are born to heal and to help. Others to destroy … ”By that he meant himself, the Serial killer.

The “Regensburg Strangler”, as David was called, arrived in November 1938 Breslau to the world. During the turmoil of World War II, the then six-year-old boy with a name tag around his neck was discovered alone at the Hof train station. Came to the house that Red Cross looked for the mother and he found it in 1948. The ten-year-old boy was happy, but his mother rejected him.

Serial killer found dead in prison cell: Munich investigator talks about ‘key experience’

For the researcher and later head of the Munich Homicide squad, Josef Wilflingwho condemned Horst David was this Rejection “one Key experienceDavid had completed an apprenticeship as a painter. In 1975, the now-married father strangled two prostitutes in Munich in a few days. More than five years passed before the next murder. Until 1994 he killed in Regensburg five other women. In almost all cases, general practitioners certified one for women natural death. It was not until 1994 that Kripo located him, and in December 1995 David was sentenced to life imprisonment in Munich (see original report).

Josef Wilfling, who convicted him and now The best selling author is: “I can’t say I’m sad. However, the death of a person is always sad. I also admit it to the murderer of women. No one got closer to the serial killer than him. Wilfling’s key to Horst David was respect: “He had missed him all his life. May I find peace now. ” (mc)

Notorious Munich and Regensburg facts on the way: serial killer died

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Munich / Straubing – Has at least seven human lives Horst david in consciousness. Between 1975 and 1993 the “Strangler of Regensburg” the Free State with a Series of murders in breath. Now David has died at the age of 81. As the JVA Straubing tz.de * Confirmed, he was found dead in his on Sunday (November 8) Prison cell he found.

Investigative Regensburg Senior Attorney Dr. Markus Pfaller Reports of a death investigation being launched: “Currently there is no indication of foreign influence.” One is waiting for one’s result autopsy. With the Coronavirus * the “Strangler von Regensburg *” was not infected.

David’s downfall is now considered milestone in german Crime story. For the first time, the police managed to carry out an act almost 20 years ago using an automated one Fingerabdruckidentifizierungssystems to illuminate.

Munich: Horst David killed two prostitutes; years later he was convicted

The painter by training David committed his first two documented murders in August 1975. During a trip to Munich* the first murderer of the prostitute Waldtraud frank, two days later his colleague Fatima grossart. With traces of the Grossart case, investigators discovered David years later.

In 1994 the Serial offender five more murders at his place of residence Regensburg. Were always Pensioners the victims who had been strangled in their homes. This circumstance should give David his unflattering nickname. How Reason in each case economic aspects were carried out.

Dead “von Regensburg Strangler”: Are there more murders of his own?

In 1995 the killer woman was dating Munich Regional Court twice a life Mango sentenced. Researchers surmise that there may be more acts on their own.

The “Regensburg Strangler” would not have been released from prison until 2023 at the earliest. The deputy director of Straubing Prison, Marcus hegeleexplained next tz.de *that the 81-year-old was already on the Sunday before his death Nursing the prison had been treated. (lks)

Another murder that shocked Regensburg: after the verdict of the case Maria baumer the “Aktenzeichen XY” program has again shed light on the investigation. The victim’s convicted fiancé had taken up residence in the television studio years earlier. * Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network.