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German police reveal shocking information on 'serial killer'
DW ^ | 5.19.2016

Posted on 05/20/2016 1:56:08 PM PDT by Gamecock

German police reveal shocking information on 'serial killer' Police say that Manfred S., who died in 2014, could be responsible for the gruesome deaths of at least six people over several decades. The victims' bodies were found disfigured below the suspect's garage.

Manfred S. was a "very normal family man" who did not arouse any suspicion until he died in August 2014, Detective Frank Herrmann, of the state criminal investigation office (LKA), told journalists in Wiesbaden, the state capital of Hesse in western Germany, on Thursday.

The suspect worked as a gardener and handyman, played the saxophone and was known around Schwalbach as a social person, Herrmann added.

Investigators became suspicious of Manfred S. when his daughter found the remains of a dismembered corpse while cleaning out her father's garage in September 2014, a month after his death.

The body led detectives to believe that Manfred S. was responsible for the deaths of at least five more people, mostly women. The victims were often drug addicts and prostitutes, who hung around the central station in Frankfurt.

Manfred S. is also suspected of having killed two women in the 1970s and two more in the 1990s, also in Frankfurt. Detectives said the victims' bodies were badly disfigured; their hands and legs were cut. The murderer often removed organs from the corpses and took them with him, with different damage inflicted each time.

"If you add them all up, you probably really could create a new body," Herrmann said.

Police also linked the 1998 murder of a 13-year-old boy to Manfred S. Although the victim did not correspond to Manfred S.' pattern, officials said the boy's body had been disfigured in a similar manner to that of the women. Manfred S. was also being linked to two women who had gone missing in 1998 and 1999.

Investigators said they had also found the decapitated heads of two other women, but were not yet sure if these could be linked to the Schwalbach resident.

Meanwhile, officials at Hesse's LKA were continuing investigations, although finding evidence was difficult, Herrmann told journalists.

The state police have launched a public appeal asking if people knew Manfred S. or had any information about his sexual preferences. They cited his time in the German military and in a rehab clinic called Sonnenberg as possible places where people might have met the suspect. Police were also looking for people with ties to the victims in case they could assist the investigation.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: crime; germany

1 posted on 05/20/2016 1:56:08 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

“He was a quiet man.”


2 posted on 05/20/2016 1:58:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Gamecock

“Very normal family man “
Obviously not.


3 posted on 05/20/2016 2:01:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Gamecock

So his name wasn’t Joel Rifkin?


4 posted on 05/20/2016 2:02:50 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: I want the USA back

Lloyd Braun? The Serenity Now tapes didn’t take, huh?


5 posted on 05/20/2016 2:03:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Gamecock

He was inspired to do these evil things by Donald Trump, no doubt.


6 posted on 05/20/2016 2:04:04 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Gamecock

His last name is just an S?

Freegards


7 posted on 05/20/2016 2:05:34 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: I want the USA back

He may have been a normal family man. But he was a whacko serial killer.


8 posted on 05/20/2016 2:13:53 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Gamecock
Our own sax maniac: Bill Clinton saxophone photo: Bill Clinton DSCN3430.jpg
9 posted on 05/20/2016 2:15:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Gamecock

So, they’re bringing back the evil middle-aged white serial killer? I thought that meme was dead after the 80s and now it was the crazy white sociopathic gun-crazy mass killer.


10 posted on 05/20/2016 2:24:05 PM PDT by Vic S (I am not a number; I am a free man!)
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To: Gamecock

Eh, just one of those alternative lifestyles we are supposed to tolerate.


11 posted on 05/20/2016 2:34:33 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: Gamecock

“Investigators became suspicious of Manfred S. when his daughter found the remains of a dismembered corpse while cleaning out her father’s garage in September 2014, a month after his death.”

Well, no sh!t, Sherlock...


12 posted on 05/20/2016 2:46:50 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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Maybe the daughter did it.


13 posted on 05/20/2016 3:25:22 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Gamecock

Why no last name?

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14 posted on 05/20/2016 3:41:08 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Gamecock

soooooo why are they not revealing his whole name and picture?


15 posted on 05/20/2016 3:59:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: fruser1

“Maybe the daughter did it.”

Blame it on the dead dad. That’d be the perfect frame job.


16 posted on 05/20/2016 4:54:50 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: dfwgator
“He was a quiet man.”

He never played his stereo loud ;-)

Ed

17 posted on 05/20/2016 6:04:50 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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