- Name:
Peter Kurten
- Also
known as: Dusseldorf Vampire and Monster of Dusseldorf
- Born:
May 26th, 1883 in Cologne-Mulheim
- Death:
July 2nd, 1931 by guillotine
- Location
of murders: in and around Dusseldorf Germany
- Victims:
mostly women; charged with 9 murders, suspected of many more
- Choice
of Weapon: hands, knives, axes, hammers, scissors
- One
of thirteen children
- First serial Killer to ever be studied in depth by a psychiatrist (Karl
Berg)
- First killed at age 9
- Spent more then half his life in jail
- Drank victim's blood
Links:
MSD law studies
Crime
Library: Peter Kurten
Peter
Kurten: Satan's Servant
Kurten,
Peter: The Dusseldorf Vampire
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