Jurgen Bartsch
German teenage homosexual serial killer.
"From a certain age [around 13 or 14] I always had the feeling of no longer having any control over what I was doing… I prayed, and I hoped at least that it would do some good, but it didn't."
- Modus operandi: Beats, strangles, dismembers. Plucks out their eyes.
- Jurgens's adopted family did not allow him to play with other children. Thus, he never had friends, and never gained the skills to make friends. Being a perpetual outsider combined with social ineptness made him an easy target.
- A movie made of his story, The Child I Never Was. Also a play, The Child-Killer: A Portrait of a Paedophile by Oliver Reese (based on Bartsch' correspondences).
Timeline
| 6 Nov 1946 |
Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski born to Anna Sadrozinski (who has tuberculosis), Essen. Anna leaves the baby at the hospital, unable to care for him. |
| Oct 1947 |
Adopted by the Gerhard and Gertrud Bartsch, who run a butcher shop. |
| 1957 |
Attends Wiesengrund in Bonn. |
| 1958 |
Attends Marienhausen Catholic school at age of 12. He is homosexually abused there, raped four times by choir leader Father Pütlitz, and sometimes by other students. |
| 1960 |
Commits a forced sex act with a boy named Axel, whom he allows to leave. |
| 1961 |
Leaves school. |
| 1962 |
Commits first murder, a boy named Klaus Jung. |
| 7 Aug 1965 |
Murders a second boy, Peter Fuchs, near Essen-Holsterhausen. |
| 7 Aug 1965 |
Murders a third boy, Ulrich Kahlweiss, with repeated hammer blows to the head. |
| 1966 |
Murders a fourth boy, Manfred Grassmann. |
| 18 Jun 1966 |
Tries for a fifth boy, Peter Frese, age 5. At some point Jurgen leaves for dinner and television, leaving the boy restrained. However, the boy escapes. |
| 22 Jun 1966 |
Arrested after for the kidnapping and attempted murder of boy Peter Frese. |
| 30 Nov 1965 |
Trial begins. Bartsch sentenced to life imprisonment. He attempts suicide several times. |
| Mar 1971 |
Plea bargaining; sentenced to ten years and further psychiatric care. |
| 6 Apr 1971 |
Appeal. More information is brought forward regarding his parent's treatment, and his fucked-up life created thereby. New sentence is ten years plus further psychiatric care. |
| 15 Nov 1972 |
Residence at Rottland, a nursing home near Eickelborn. |
| 15 Feb 1973 |
Engaged to nurse Gisela. |
| 1974 |
Marries Gisela at his hospital. |
| 28 Apr 1976 |
Dies of an anaesthetic overdose during a surgical procedure -- voluntary castration. |
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