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Murderer lies dead in cell: Munich investigator thinks back to an unprecedented series - and declares "key experience"

2020-11-13T04:20:44.787Z


Horst David murdered in Munich and Regensburg. Now the serial offender was found dead in his prison cell at the age of 81.


Horst David murdered in Munich and Regensburg.

Now the serial offender was found dead in his prison cell at the age of 81.

  • Serial killer Horst David is responsible for at least seven murders.

  • Between 1975 and 1993 he was up to mischief in Munich and Regensburg.

  • At the age of 81, Horst David died on November 8th in his prison cell in Straubing JVA.

Update November 12, 16:27:

The

Strangler Horst David

 wrote years ago that sentence from his

cell

in the

prison Straubing

.

“There are people who are born to heal and help.

Others to destroy… ”By that he meant himself, the

serial killer

.

The "strangler of Regensburg", as David was called, was born in November 1938 in

Breslau

.

During the turmoil of World War II, the then six-year-old with a name tag around his neck was discovered alone at the Hof train station.

He came to the home, the

Red Cross

looked for his

mother

and found her in 1948. The ten-year-old was happy, but his mother turned him away.

Serial killer found dead in prison cell: investigator from Munich talks about "key experience"

For the investigator and later head of the Munich

homicide squad

,

Josef Wilfling

, who convicted Horst David, this

rejection was

“a

key experience

”.

David had completed an apprenticeship as a painter.

In 1975, the now married father strangled two prostitutes in Munich within a few days.

It was over five years before the next murder.

By 1994 he killed

another five women

in

Regensburg

.

In almost all cases the general practitioners certified that the women died of

natural causes

.

Only in 1994 did the criminal investigation team track him down, in December 1995 David was sentenced to life imprisonment in Munich (see original report).

+

Josef Wilfling - here in the detention center of the Munich Police Headquarters.

© Krimifestival München / Sabine Thomas

Josef Wilfling, who convicted him and is now a

bestselling author

: “I can't say that I'm sad.

Nevertheless, the death of a person is always sad.

I also admit that to the murderer of women. ”Nobody came closer to the serial killer than he.

Wilfling's key to Horst David was respect: “He had missed that all his life.

May he now find peace. "

(Mc)  

Notorious deeds in Munich and Regensburg on the way: serial killer died

Origin notification:

Munich / Straubing -

Horst David has

at

least seven lives

on his conscience.

Between 1975 and 1993, the

"Strangler von Regensburg" kept

the Free State in suspense with an unprecedented

series of murders

.

Now David has died at the age of 81.

As the

JVA Straubing

tz.de *

 confirmed, he was found dead in his

prison cell

on Sunday (November 8th)

.

The investigative Regensburg

Public Prosecutor Dr.

Markus Pfaller

reports on a death investigation that has been initiated: “There is currently no evidence of outside interference.” You are now waiting for the result of an

autopsy

.

However

, the "Strangler von Regensburg *" was not infected

with the

corona

virus *.

David's case is now considered a

milestone

in German

criminal history.

For the first time, the police succeeded in clearing up an act almost 20 years ago using an automated

fingerprint identification system

.

Munich: Horst David killed two prostitutes - years later he was convicted

The trained painter David committed his first two documented murders in August 1975. On a trip to

Munich *

, he first murdered the prostitute

Waldtraud Frank

, and two days later her colleague

Fatima Grossart

.

Years later, investigators discovered David with traces of the Grossart case.

In 1994 the

serial offender

confessed to

five more murders at his place of residence in

Regensburg

.

Pensioners

were always

the victims who had been strangled in their homes.

This circumstance should give David his unflattering nickname.

In

each case, financial aspects were given

as a

motive

.

"Strangler von Regensburg" dead: are more murders on his account?

In 1995 the woman murderer

was

sentenced

twice to life

imprisonment

by the

Munich Regional Court

.

Investigators assume that further acts should be on his account.

The “Strangler von Regensburg” would not have been released from custody until 2023 at the earliest.

The deputy head of the Straubing JVA,

Marcus Hegele

, told

tz.de *

that the 81-year-old had already

been treated in the prison's

infirmary

before his death on Sunday

.

(left)

Another murder that shocked Regensburg: After the verdict in the

Maria Baumer

case

, the program “Aktenzeichen XY” re-examined the investigation. The condemned fiancé of the victim had set himself in the TV studio years earlier.

* Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network.

Source: merkur

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