Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A native of Berlin, Hein was the oldest of eight children born to an
alcoholic tailor and his mentally retarded wife. Departing from his
troubled home as soon as he was legally of age, Hein carried with him
years of pent-up rage, a stunted sexuality that later found its outlet
through sadistic violence. Hein married Edith Dzillak in Berlin; she
bore two children, but Hein's second bid at family life proved no more
stable than the first. On March 3, 1967, a domestic argument turned
savage and his wife was strangled in their home. Convicted of
manslaughter in November, Hein was sentenced to eight years in prison;
he served only five, and was freed on parole November 24, 1972. A
waiter's job and lodgings, in the Neukoelln district of Berlin, were
waiting for him, courtesy of German rehabilitation officers.
On April 4, 1973, six-year-old Sonja Kleber disappeared while walking
home from school in the Neukoelln district. Strollers in a wooded park
discovered her that night, unconscious, naked, hemorrhaging from her
vagina. She survived to offer the police a clear description of her
rapist, leading officers to the address where she had been attacked.
They picked up tenant Juergen Hein for questioning, and he confessed to
the assault. Returned to prison on a violation of parole, with ten years
added for the rape, he was released again in mid-July of 1985.
Berlin was too restrictive for him now, with the authorities alert to
his propensity for violent sex. Around October 30, he moved to
Baden-Baden, in West Germany, a few miles east of Strasbourg, France.
The morning of October 31, he stopped 50-year-old Elvira Kaszuba on the
street outside her home, inviting her to dine with him that evening. She
accepted, smitten with the young man's charm, and they grew intimate
within the next few days. Elvira let him have a key to her apartment,
and he came to visit her each night. The evening of November 6, he
cooked their supper there, then disemboweled Kaszuba with a hunting
knife and stuffed her body in a closet.
Five days later, police in Baden-Baden filed a missing person report in
the name of Theresia Hoog, age 55. Hoog's son had found her missing from
the home they shared that morning, and he got no answer when he called
her closest friend, Elvira Kaszuba. Alarmed, the young man noted that
his mother's car was also missing. She had gone for rheumatism
treatments at a local clinic on the evening of November 10; it now
appeared the widow never made it home.
Detectives visited the Black Forest Clinic, where a nurse remembered
seeing Mrs. Hoog the night before. She had arrived on schedule for her
treatment, but was called away beforehand, by a man whom clinic workers
readily described. Theresia's missing car was not outside the clinic,
and its license number was relayed to street patrolmen, with composite
sketches of a suspect sought for questioning.
That afternoon, a traffic officer discovered the elusive car, parked out
in front of an apartment house. He was retreating toward a call box, to
report, when he observed a man resembling the suspect sketch emerging
from the house. The suspect, Juergen Hein, was taken into custody
without resistance as he slipped a key into the door latch on the
driver's side.
Aware of Juergen's record, officers began to search the building. In a
second-floor apartment, they discovered Mrs. Hoog, stripped naked and
spread-eagle on the bed, her wrists and ankles tethered to the bed
posts, tape wound tight around her head and face. Her breasts and
genitals were bloody, marked with superficial cuts that indicated that
she had been tortured with a hunting knife that lay beside her on the
bloodstained sheets.
Theresia Hoog survived her painful injuries, describing how her captor
lured her from the clinic with a story that her friend, Elvira Kaszuba,
had been gravely injured in "an accident." At knifepoint, he had lashed
her to the bed, assaulted her repeatedly and tortured her with
superficial cuts, apparently intending to return and finish her at
leisure when he came back from the errand that resulted in his
apprehension on the street below.
Concerned detectives went to see Kaszuba at her flat, and found her
mutilated body in the closet. Seeking information from the building's
manager, Ruth Tschantscher, 48, police found she had also fallen victim
to the killer. Strangled, stripped, and slashed, her body had lain
undiscovered in the bathroom for eleven days.
In custody, Hein readily confessed his crimes. Ruth Tschantscher's son,
had been a former cellmate in Berlin; he had performed the
introductions, once suggesting Hein might look his mother up in
Baden-Baden, if he ever needed lodgings, and the rest was history. On
June 27, 1986, Hein was convicted of double murder, consigned to prison
on two consecutive life sentences. In theory, he would never walk the
streets in search of human prey again.
--
Kathy E
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isn't looking too good for you either"
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