As a child, Peter Kurten and his 12 siblings
lived in a one-room home with an alcoholic and abusive father. His father
repeatedly raped his wife and daughters in front of the other children.
The Kurten family lived next to a dog catcher
who taught Peter how to torture animals and perform beastiality. He enjoyed
killing unclaimed dogs.
Peter once slit the throat of a sleeping swan
and reached orgasm while drinking its blood.
At age 9, Peter killed his first victim by drowning
his playmate in the Rhine River and then another friend who attempted
to save the first.
As a teenager, he was arrested for theft and was
sentenced to 2 years in prison. During these 2 years, he began to resent
German society and purposely got sent to solitary confinement so he would
have time alone to think. He would think about different ways of killing
thousands of people, such as destroying bridges and putting bacilli into
public drinking water.
After being released from prison, he moved in
with a prostitute more than twice his age who later became his wife. He
proposed to her by threatening to kill her if she did not marry him.
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