Horror in the garden shed: Josef Salus (40) stabbed his young lover Elfriede to death in 1954. “Unlike all the other women he met, the fun-loving girl awakened deep feelings in him, the file says.” Salus regrets the murder out of jealousy.

He visited the corpse again and again and then left. ‘I follow you! If there really is another world, we will meet there,’ wrote the murderer in his farewell letter.