Ernst-Dieter Beck

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Ernst-Dieter Beck (born October 2, 1940 in Gohfeld ; † April 29, 2018 in the Fröndenberg Prison Hospital ) was a German serial killer and the first murder accused in German legal history to be subjected to a chromosome test .

crime

Beck, with a multiple criminal record for theft , fraud , forgery , assault and sexual assault, strangled the 23-year-old employee Ingrid K. on April 8, 1961.She had attended a hen party, disappeared on the way home and was later found strangled in a mill near Rehme . The case caused a sensation because all 84 hen party guests had to be questioned very carefully by the criminal police. The police followed over 1,000 leads without discovering the perpetrator. Several people were suspected, including the victim's father, who did not live to be relieved because he died before Beck was arrested.

On May 25, 1965, Beck murdered the 29-year-old office worker Ursula F. She had met Beck in a dance hall and she called him herself to go dancing with him. After several visits to restaurants, she invited Beck to her mother's apartment in Herford , which she was living in at the time . There he strangled her and left the house unseen. Since she had planned a trip to the Netherlands at the time , she was not missed and only discovered by chance by neighbors after ten days.

On February 28, 1968, he murdered the 21-year-old office worker Anneliese H. She was found the next day by a driver in a stream near Herford .

negotiation

Beck was arrested on March 1, 1968 on the basis of a matching fingerprint from Ursula F.'s apartment. Although he denied the acts, he was admitted to the Marsberg state hospital for a psychiatric examination . He first confessed to all three killings to the head of the institution there.

The special circumstances under which Beck became a murderer prompted his defense attorney, attorney Schlueter, to submit a request for evidence that the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Marburg had obtained a cytogenetic report . In forensic psychiatry , the view was previously held that the chromosome shift in the sex-determining 23rd chromosome pair, from the normal combination XY to XYY in men, must result in a predisposition to violent crimes. In proceedings against murderers in the USA and France , corresponding test results had already led to penalties being reduced.

During the trial of the child murderer Jürgen Bartsch the Circuit Court Wuppertal rejected a same request, which was Bielefeld Landgerichtsdirektor Aurich with the request agreed the prosecution did not object. It was the first time in German criminal and legal history that a person accused of murder was subjected to the chromosome test. From the report prepared by the Marburg Institute for Human Genetics it emerged that according to the investigation methods used so far, there was no shift from XY to XYY with a probability bordering on certainty. Beck therefore had the normal chromosome combination and could not count on any mitigation from this side.

On November 4, 1968, he was sentenced to three life imprisonment for three murders . He served this in the JVA Werl .

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personal data
SURNAME Beck, Ernst-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gohfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2018
Place of death Fröndenberg correctional hospital