Famous criminal of Germany

Peter Kürten ( may 26, 1883-july 2, 1931)

Peter Kürten was a German serial murderer known as "The Vampire of ¨Dusserdolf. He committed a lot of crimes, assaults and murders against adults and children.

Kürten was born in Mulheim in a bg family of 13 children. When he was a child, he witnessed his alcoholic father abusing sexually of hid mother and sister. Maybe, these kind of bad teachings affected the Kürten's behaviour and because of that, he became a murder.

As Kürten had a bad education, he committed his first murder at the age of 9, drowning two young friends while swimming. Then, he moved to Dusserdorf with his family in 1894 and there he received a lot of sentences for various crimes including petty theft and arson.

Furthermore, he committed his first murder in 1913, when he strangled a young girl during a burglary. But, in this year, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. In 1921, he left prison and went to Altenburg where he married.

In addition, Kürten committed a lot of crimes. Any of these are: on february 18, 1929 he assaulted a woman amd murdered a girl of eight years old; on february 13, he killed a mechanic; on august 21, he murdered two sisters of five and fourteen years old; on august 23, he stabbed a woman; on october, he attacked two women with a hammer; on november 7, he killed a girl of five years old. There are more murders that Kürten committed ij this year, but in 1930 he confessed his crimes to his wife and told her to inform the police. On may 24 of this year, he was arrested.

Finally, Kürten confessed to 79 offenses and was charged with nine murders and other crimes. He went to trial on april 1931 and he was sentenced to death.

Kürten killed people because he wanted and he did'nt any reason to commit these murders. Perhaps, the bad education that he had in his childhood was one of the cuases that contributed to his stranger bevaviour. Nevertheless, he never said why he committed these crimes.