Peter first killed when he was 9. He drowned 2
playmates in the Rhine River.
On May 25, 1913, he broke into a house but found
nothing worth stealing. Instead he found a sleeping 10 year old Christine
Klein, who he strangled and raped, and later slit her throat to watch
her bleed.
After the murder, Peter went to jail for deserting
the army, but was released in 1921. Between 1925 and 1929, he committed
a string of murders by using various weapons such as axes, knives, scissors,
and his bare hands.
In 1929, on August 23, Peter killed 5 year old
Gertrude Hamacher and 14 year old Louise Lenzen by luring them into a
desolate place and strangling, molesting, and once again cutting their
throats. The next day he tried to have sex with Schulte, she responded
by saying "I'd rather die" and so he stabbed her.
Next
came Ida Reuter and Elizabeth Dorrier, two servant girls who were both
raped and then killed with a hammer.
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Gertrude
Hamacher
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Ida
Reuter
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