Pommerenke confessed to overall 65 criminal acts, among them were the four murders, seven attempted murders, two accomplished and 25 attempted rapes, six robberies, ten burglaries and six petit larcenies. On June 19 the tailor reported the finding of the rifle and gave the police Pommerenke's personal data.
This and the description of the gun were the evidence of a connection between the robbery and the series of murders. Besides his clothes he left a packet with the stolen small bore rifle there, which he wanted to pick up in a few days.Ī footprint was found at the station in Karlsruhe and it matched the footprint from June 8. On the same day he went to a tailor in Hornberg. With this gun he robbed 540 Deutsche Mark from a counter clerk at a railway station in Karlsruhe on June 18. On JPommerenke broke into a gun shop and stole a small bore rifle and an air gun. An official autopsy and investigation determined that Bartsch had been intoxicated with a Halothane overdose (factor 10) by an insufficiently trained nurse. The doctors of Eickelborn State Hospital chose a castration methodology that accidentally resulted in Bartsch's death. This was about ten years after incarceration, two years after his marriage, and after his depressive condition did not improve. Bartsch initially refused any surgery but finally agreed to voluntary castration on Apin order to avoid lifetime incarceration in a mental hospital. The forensic psychiatrists considered various therapy concepts: psychotherapy, castration and even psychosurgery. There, he married Gisela Deike of Hanover on January 2, 1974. However, in 1971, the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, returned the case to the Landgericht Düsseldorf, which reduced the sentence to 10 years of juvenile detention and had Bartsch placed under psychiatric care in Eickelborn. Initially, the sentence was upheld on appeal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 15, 1967, by the Wuppertal regional court (Landgericht Wuppertal). Upon arrest, Bartsch openly confessed to his crimes. Died during voluntary surgical castration on April 28, 1976 In 1971, theįederal Court of Justice of Germany, on appeal, reduced the sentence toġ0 years juvenile detention and to be placed under psychiatric care inĮickelborn. Sentenced to life imprisonment on December 15, 1967. The case of the sexual offender Bartsch in German jurisdiction history was the first to include psycho-social factors of the defendant, who came from a violent early surrounding, to set down the degree of penalty.īorn: November 6, 1946, Essen, Germany (Birth name: Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski)ĭied: Ap(aged 29), Eickelborn, West Germany His intended fifth victim, 15-year-old Peter Frese, however, escaped by burning through his bindings with a candle that Bartsch had left burning after leaving the shelter.
Jürgen Bartsch (born Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski, Novem– April 28, 1976) was a German serial killer who murdered four boys ages 8–13 and attempted to kill another. (See also Top 10 Famous Austrian Serial Killers)
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This is a list of notable serial killers from Germany, ranked by number of proven victims (deadliest): We take a look at some of Germany's most notorious serial killers, some of whom will be in prison until they die, with no chance of parole.