Serial killer Peter Kurten Dusseldorf Germany 1931 color added 2016
by David Lee Guss
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Serial killer Peter Kurten Dusseldorf Germany 1931 color added 2016
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David Lee Guss
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"Peter Kurten (26 May 1883 - 2 July 1931) was a German serial killer known as both The Vampire of Dusseldorf and the Dusseldorf Monster, who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of Dusseldorf.
In the years prior to these assaults, Kurten had amassed a lengthy criminal record for offenses including arson, theft and attempted murder. He also confessed to the 1913 murder of a 9-year-old girl in Mulheim am Rhein.
Kurten became known as both the The Vampire of Dusseldorf and the Dusseldorf Monster because the majority of his murders were committed in and around the city of Dusseldorf. He was considered a vampire because he drank the blood of a killed swan in December 1929 and he also made attempts to drink the blood of some of his human victims.
Fritz Lang's 1931 film M, in which a serial child killer terrorizes a German city, is often said to have been based upon Kurten, but Lang denied that Kurten was an influence. Because of the similarities between Kurten and the film's villain, Hans Beckert, the film was called The Vampire of Dusseldorf in some countries, even though it is set in Berlin."
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