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Reichhart executed 3, people between and Many British accounts of Martha Marek state that she was beheaded with an axe but this is not correct and may well stem from an incorrect translation of the German for guillotine -Fallbeil- literally drop or fall hatchet axe. Two of his intended victims are daughters of respectable families. One is a servan to the Baroness Malfatti, whose chambermaid he had indiced to steal pearls worth Malfatti for attending Napoleon's son, the Duke of Reichstadt, during his last illness.

This maid, who had lived in the family for 12 years, was so thoroughly trusted that the pearls were not missed until Schenk's arrest gave the clue to the robbery. She had prepared everything for Schenk and his accomplice's reception in the house on the very night he was arrested. Schenk said to her he would give all the inmates, herself includes, a dose of morphia; but he has confessed that his real intention was to murder them all. If he had not been arrested on the 10th, this crime would have been added to the others.

The Baroness Malfatti had about 10, florins' worth of plate and jewels, besides much cash, in the house, a solitary villa in an outtying suburb. She is a most generous old lady, who founded and keeps up an asylum for old women. Her pearls were pawned in Linz. The maid's deposition confirmed Schenk's confession. Evetry step that the police take serves to reveal fresh crimes of the brothers Schenks and their accomplice, Schlossarek. Schenk acted by minutely prepared plans, and several times he plotted against one girl even before he had disposed of another, who seemed ready to give up all to him.

He is tall, handsome, well-mannered, speaks fluently several languages, and has the bearing of a gentleman. His brother has confessed to having helped him to murder the cook Ketterl, whom they shot dead and threw into the Danube early in August, This is the fifth murder which seems, so far as we may say so before actual convictions, to be established, but three others are probable.

Hugo Schenk's wife and his child have dissapeared altogether. A man answering his description was seen from a railway train near Lundenburg, on the Northern Railway, wrestling with a woman, whom he seemed to stab. This affair was not cleared up, because the police sent from the station where the train stopped could find no trace of murderer or victim. Schenk confesses to hanving murdered a woman near Lundenburg, but refuses to give details. She offered herself as a witness when she heard who her lover really was.

His acquaintances were all made by means of advertisements in the local papers. Schenk made the women believe that he was a Nihilist agent, a Polish Count with untold gold, that he had uncles in America, and noble relations who would not hear of a marriage with a servant. Clandestine marriage was always the excuse for leaving Vienna, and once en route, with the girl's money safe in her bag, he got out at some romantic spot, where he met his accomplices, and after murdering his victim, returned by next train.

In March, , he was released after two years' imprisonment. In May he murdered the two Timals, after four weeks' acquaintance. In August the cook Ketterl was murdered, and in the last days of December, when the police had already traced him, he killed Rosa Ferenczy.

During all this time he professed to be in love with two girls, and corresponded with at least 50 others. Next day he started on a Swiss tour with his sweetheart, and only left her when money fell short. The most pitiable of his victims was his last, Rosa Ferenczy. The illegitimate daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, she was full of fanciful ideas, and when, at the age of 30, this handsome man offered her his hand and heart she believed fate had turned at last, and leavin service followed him.

He took some of her money, 1, florins in all, and lodged her in a remote suburb, visiting her sometimes. The landlady states that Rosa Ferenczy suspected him when absent, but whenever he showed himself she always believed him. At Christmas he took her to the theatres and the opera, promising to visit his sister in her company soon.

She prepared for departure, and said, crying, to the landlady: "You'll either see me happy and married, or never again. Next day her body was found in the Danube, near Presbourg. The sums which Schenk obtained by his murders, and which he must have divided with his brother and his accomplice Schlossarek, do not amount to 6, florins.

But he never worked, and lived comfortably, often traveling, for three years at least, as also did his accomplices. He must, therefore, hace obtained money by other means, or many other murders, to which no clue is as yet obtained, were his work. The Pesth police have asked for his likeness, several girls having been abducted from that city of late years in a similar manner to that practiced by Schenk.

Died Is this man a Bluebeard? The Montreal Gazette November 6, St. Poelten, Austria, Nov. The man, year-old Max Gufler, who lives in this lower Austrian town was arrested on suspicion of having killed year old Maria Robas, whose body was found Sept.

While searching his rooms, police found piles of ladies' bags, suitcases and other articles that they have established belonged to women who disappeared in the last six years. Police claimed they have proof to convict Gufler of at least three murders. The judge challenged Gufler, pointing out that he even reconstructed one of his crimes for the police.

A page indictment said he took the women on motor tours, then gave each a cherry liqueur and drowned her in river. Released in the 's. Died on August 21, , Weitra, Austria. Escaped Being from German-speaking Vienna, he was soon able to gain employment at the German Odd Fellows Home, a kind of nursing home, located in the Bronx.

Soon after he began work there, he exhibited signs of megalomania. He would wear white lab coats with a stethoscope around his neck. He also adopted an arrogant attitude and would insist that the elderly patients, whom he terrified, address him as "Herr Doktor.

Murders In a four month period from September to January of the following year, an unusually high number of patients died at the Home. In all seventeen died. Mors had been purchasing pharmacy items from a local druggist, including arsenic and chloroform, which he had been using to murder at least eight of the elderly residents, though he later claimed he was "putting them out of their misery".

He commissioned his first murder using arsenic. Encountering difficulties with this method he later switched to the use of chloroform. Fearing foul play, the administration called the police in to investigate. Investigation Early in the investigation, police learned of the fear the elderly patients had for Mors. On these grounds he soon became the primary suspect of the investigation. When questioned, Mors readily and calmly admitted to killing eight of the seventeen patients that had recently died.

He claimed that these were mercy killings and that they had been nuisances. In detail, he described his method as: "First I would pour a drop or two of chloroform on a piece of absorbent cotton and hold it to the nostrils of the old person.

Soon my man would swoon. Then I would close the orifices of the body with cotton, stuffing it in the ears, nostrils and so on. Next I would pour a little chloroform down the throat and prevent the fumes escaping the same way. He later escaped the institution in the late s. He was never caught and disappeared into obscurity, never being heard from again. That night, he took his own life by hanging himself in his cell Johann "Jack" Unterweger born in Steiermark, died 29 June in Graz was a serial killer who murdered prostitutes in several countries.

He was born in in the Austrian state of Steiermark to a Viennese prostitute and an unknown American soldier. He grew up in poverty with his abusive, alcoholic grandfather in a one-room cabin. He was in and out of prison several times during his youth for assaulting local prostitutes. He was sentenced to life in prison and used that time to study.

He became an author of short stories, poems, plays, and an autobiography, "Fegefeuer — eine Reise ins Zuchthaus" which was a success with critics and the public. He was released after only 16 years of his life term, thought to be a successful "resocialized" prisoner. In the first year after his release, however, police found later that he killed six prostitutes in Austria.

In , he was hired by an Austrian magazine to write about crime in Los Angeles, California, writing articles about prostitution and riding around town with the local police. During his time in Los Angeles, the three prostitutes Shannon Exley, Irene Rodriguez, and Sherri Ann Long were beaten, sexually assaulted with tree branches, and finally strangled with their own brassieres.

Back in Austria, police had enough evidence for his arrest, but he was gone by the time they entered his home. While a fugitive, he had time to call Austrian media to try to convince them of his innocence. Back in Austria, he was charged with eleven homicides. The jury found him guilty of nine murders because no cause of death could be determined for two of them, as nothing was found of them but bones. On June 29, he was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. That night, he took his own life by hanging himself with his pants.

Because he died before he could appeal the verdict, it was never legally valid. Thus, according to Austrian law, Unterweger is to be regarded as innocent. In popular culture Dramatizations In a performance, actor John Malkovich portrayed Unterweger's life in a performance for one actor, two sopranos, and period orchestra entitled Seduction and Despair, which premiered at Barnum Hall in Santa Monica, CA.

He is also the subject of an episode of Biography entitled "Poet of Death". Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California, and murdered her elderly and mentally disabled boarders. She would then cash in their Social Security checks. Puente was convicted of three and sentenced to two life sentences.

She died in in a prison in Chowchilla at the age of Ishikawa was a Japanese midwife. She murdered infants with the help of accomplices during the s, reports New York Daily News. Estimates suggest the she murdered between 85 and people, but the general estimate is She sought payments for the murders, since many of her victims were deserted children, and she said her services cost less than raising an unwanted child. She received a four-year sentence. This article was featured in the InsideHook newsletter.

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