Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs
Kurt-Friedhelm Steinwegs (born December 5, 1960 in Viersen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German serial killer who murdered six people between 1974 and 1983.
childhood
Kurt Steinweg was born the fifth of eight children to a casual worker and his wife. The mother died in 1970 at the age of only 35. After the father had looked after the children alone for two years, an acquaintance with whom the father lived in a marriage-like relationship moved with her son to the family.
The youngest brother was given up for adoption, two brothers were placed in orphanages, one was convicted and imprisoned.
Residential accommodation
In November 1974 Kurt Steinweg was placed in a youth care center in Gifhorn , Lower Saxony . During this time, he killed the 59-year-old Ernst Dorf with a stone, which only became known years later.
In April 1976, the facility saw no further funding opportunities and applied for the boy to be transferred. Finally, in October 1976, he came to a curative education facility in Burglengenfeld, Bavaria . In July 1977 he was released to his father's home in Willich.
Andrew Robinson murder
During his time with his father, he murdered 13-year-old Andrew Robinson in Willich in 1978. The program Aktenzeichen XY unresolved on June 1, 1979 reported on the case, but no evidence was found that would have led the police on the trail of the perpetrator. Kurt Steinweg was not suspected of the act.
Arrest and verdict
A little later, Kurt Steinweg was admitted to the State Psychiatric Clinic in Viersen. During the care in Viersen, according to later findings, he killed another four people, including a fellow patient. Among other things, he severed the genitals of his victims.
It was not until 1984 that the police arrested Kurt Steinweg after having committed another murder. During the interrogations, he freely confessed to six homicides. In the trial, however, Steinweg retracted his confession. He was later referred to in the tabloids as the “beast” or “monster of the Lower Rhine” due to his brutality.
Kurt Steinweg was sentenced in 1985 by the Mönchengladbach Regional Court to 10 years' youth imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention in a psychiatric institution. In two cases he was acquitted because he was at the time of the crime because of his “mental deficit”. To this day he sits in the forensic clinic in Bedburg-Hau .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Acts of the most notorious serial perpetrators in crime history in Die Welt from October 10, 2004
- ↑ Monday, December 24, 2007. wheniwasbuyingyouadrinkwherewereyou.blogspot.de, December 24, 2007, accessed on May 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Article in: La Vanguardia , February 15, 1984, no longer available online.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, December 8, 1984
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, December 4, 1984
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt of March 22, 1985
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinweg, Kurt-Friedhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monster from the Lower Rhine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viersen , North Rhine-Westphalia |