Elisabeth Kusian

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Elisabeth Kusian (née Richter ; born May 8, 1914 in Bornshain near Schmölln , † 1958 in Berlin ) was a nurse from Berlin who murdered two people, a man and a woman, in western Berlin in 1949 . She cut up the bodies and distributed them around the city, especially in the eastern part of the city, where they were gradually found. According to the court, she killed out of greed.

Murder and conviction

Mrs. Kusian lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg . She lured her victims into their homes with bogus sales advertisements and strangled them with a clothesline. Her dress as a nurse helped her gain the trust of her victims. Then she took the victims' money. The two victims were cut up by her with surgical knowledge and deposited on fallow land and in ruins.

Elisabeth Kusian was dependent on the drugs pervitin and morphine . In January 1951, during her trial, she was examined by Waldemar Weimann as a psychiatric expert. In June 1951, at the age of 35, she was sentenced to twice life imprisonment by the Moabit Criminal Court. She died of cancer in custody seven years later.

Adaptations

The author Horst Bosetzky processed the case in his novel "The Cold Angel - Documentary Detective Novel from Postwar Berlin". Elisabeth Kusian was also given the name "Death Sister" during her lifetime. The case aroused great public interest.

literature

  • Gunther Geserick , Klaus Vendura, Ingo Wirth: contemporary witness death. Spectacular cases in Berlin forensic medicine , p. 74 ff. Verlag Militzke, 2003, ISBN 978-3861896050
  • Horst Bosetzky: The cold angel. Crime documentary from post-war Berlin , Jaron Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-89773-730-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 83)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
  2. ^ Hans Pollak: Tatort sector limit: Berlin criminal cases of the post-war period , Verlag Neues Leben, 1994, p. 76
  3. ^ Horst Bosetzky: Cold Angel: Murder in Berlin - 1949 , p. 181
  4. ↑ Hans Pollak: Tatort Sector Boundary: Berlin Criminal Cases of the Post-War Era , Verlag Neues Leben, 1994, p. 91
  5. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/content/2003/01/08/tagestipps/575144.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.morgenpost.de  
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Kusian, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Elisabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nurse and convicted murderer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bornshain near Schmölln
DATE OF DEATH 1958
Place of death Berlin