Martin Ney (serial killer)

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Martin Ney (born December 12, 1970 in Bremen ), also called mask man and black man in the press , is a German serial killer and pedagogue who committed his first known act in 1992. He was found to have three murders and more than 40  sexual offenses against children, most of which he went to school camps. He also committed some acts in tent camps , private homes, and other locations. After his arrest on April 15, 2011, the then 40-year-old confessed to three murders. On February 27, 2012, the Stade Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment and determined the severity of the guilt .

Deeds

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In 1992 a series of abuse of boys began, mainly in northern Germany. Ney, who was described as tall and strong, invaded school shelters, tent camps and youth homes at night and masked to assault boys. From 1994 he also broke into single-family houses.

In addition to around 45 attempted or completed abuse crimes, Ney has also committed three murders in northern Germany.

School campground series

Hepstedt children's home

On March 3, 1992, the companion of a school class in a children's home in Hepstedt discovered a masked man in an empty dormitory, who fled through a patio door shortly afterwards. A few days later, a masked man tried to abuse an 11-year-old boy, but fled when he began to scream. Between April and June 1992, the masked man was seen twice by schoolchildren before he woke up several children one night in August and touched them immorally. In September, the stranger went to a boy's bed and asked him to undress. One night in October, the mask man spoke to five children in a row, of whom he subsequently abused three. After these incidents, a motion detector was installed in the school camp and the door locking system was renewed.

School camp Badenstedt

Also in March 1992, a series of similar incidents began in the Badenstedt school camp in Zeven , when a stranger tried to abuse a 13-year-old during the night. In August of the same year, presumably the same perpetrator committed himself to a 10-year-old boy in the toilet of the school camp. In September 1992, he immorally touched a 9-year-old after carrying him out of bed into an adjoining room. In May 1994, the alleged serial offender molested an 11-year-old and almost exactly a year later he repeated the offense on a 10-year-old boy. In October 1995 he tried to touch a 13-year-old, but fled when he defended himself and woke up roommates. In June 1998 he struck in Badenstedt for the last time when he tried again to immorally touch two boys who resisted, however.

School camp Wulsbüttel - murder of Dennis Klein (2001)

In June 1995 a perpetrator abused a 10-year-old exchange student in Wulsbüttel and escaped through a room window. In July 1999, a man woke an 8-year-old boy, took him to the basement of the house and molested him. On September 5, 2001, 9-year-old Dennis Klein disappeared from his room at night. A fortnight later the boy was found murdered by a mushroom picker in a thick bush on a forest path between Kirchtimke and Hepstedt.

Further crimes in school camps - murder of Stefan Jahr (1992)

In March 1992 a teacher saw a man in the hallway of the Cluvenhagen school campus who had a sleep-drunk boy with him who did not defend himself. When the perpetrator noticed the teacher, he fled. In the early morning of March 31, 1992, 13-year-old Stefan Jahr disappeared from a boarding school in Scheeßel . Five weeks later, his body was found buried in the Verden dunes with his hands tied behind his back . On April 9, 1995, a man molested a boy in the Badühlen Youth Hostel at night . On April 7, 2004, 11-year-old Jonathan Coulom disappeared from a school camp in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins in western France.

Tent Camp Series - Murder of Dennis Rostel (1995)

The acts of this series began in August 1992 when a masked perpetrator sexually abused a 9-year-old and another child in the Selker Noor tent camp . In July 1994, the perpetrator went one after the other to two tents in a tent camp in Otterndorf and woke seven boys between the ages of 8 and 9, whom he then immorally touched. At the end of August 1994, a 13-year-old woke up in the Selker Noor camp when the perpetrator touched him. After about ten minutes, the masked man disappeared. Two days later, the unknown perpetrator again touched another 13-year-old in the Selker Noor camp. On the night of July 24, 1995, 8-year-old Dennis Rostel disappeared from the Selker Noor camp. Two weeks later, German tourists found his body buried in a sand dune near Skive in Denmark .

Single family house series

From April 1994, a masked perpetrator broke into several single-family houses in the Bremen area , primarily in the Horn-Lehe district , and abused boys there. The offender's actions deviated in some details from the usual procedure, but according to the investigators, a series connection can be assumed. The police, despite being urged by parents, did not issue a public warning.

Chronological overview of the deeds

The list includes a selection of acts for which Martin Ney was convicted.

date crime scene Offense comment
 March 1992 Hepstedt children's home Trespassing The perpetrator was discovered and escaped unrecognized
 March 1992 Hepstedt children's home attempted abuse Victim fought back
 March 1992 School camp Badenstedt attempted abuse
 March 1992 School camp Cluvenhagen attempted abuse The perpetrator was discovered, broke off and fled undetected
 March 1992 Boarding school Scheeßel murder Murder of Stefan Jahr; the body was found on May 3, 1992
 Aug 1992 Hepstedt children's home multiple abuse
 Aug 1992 School camp Badenstedt abuse
 Aug 1992 Selker Noor tent camp abuse
 Sep 1992 School camp Badenstedt abuse
 Sep 1992 Hepstedt children's home abuse
 Oct 1992 Hepstedt children's home multiple abuse
 May 1994 School camp Badenstedt abuse
 July 1994 Otterndorf tent camp multiple abuse
 Aug 1994 Selker Noor tent camp abuse
 Aug 1994 Selker Noor tent camp abuse
 Apr 1995 Badühlen Youth Hostel abuse
 May 1995 School camp Badenstedt abuse
 June 1995 School camp Wulsbüttel abuse
 July 1995 Selker Noor tent camp murder Murder of Dennis Rostel; the body was found on August 8, 1995
 Oct 1995 School camp Badenstedt attempted abuse Victim fought back
 June 1998 School camp Badenstedt attempted multiple abuse Victims fought back
 July 1999 School camp Wulsbüttel abuse
 Sep 2001 School camp Wulsbüttel murder Assassination of Dennis Klein; the body was found on September 19, 2001

Investigations

In connection with the murder of Dennis Klein, the responsible police in Verden formed a special commission (SoKo "Dennis"). As part of the investigative work, the murders and, in some cases, cases of abuse that were previously unknown to the investigating authorities could be placed in a closer context and assigned to a suspected perpetrator based on the testimony of witnesses and almost identical course of events. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office supported SoKo "Dennis" with the preparation of an operational case analysis .

Perpetrator description

According to analyzes by the case analyst Alexander Horn , the perpetrator was supposed to be a strikingly tall, stocky man between the ages of 30 and 50 who spoke High German with a deep voice. He should know his way around northern Germany, especially the area around Bremen , and possibly even live there. At the beginning of the 1990s it should have had a connection to the area around the places Hepstedt and Badenstedt.

The man wore dark clothes, a mask and gloves for his actions. In all cases he managed to intimidate the children. The perpetrator, initially described as athletic, gained weight over the years. He used to drive most of the time and may have seemed to have experience working with children. It was assumed that he lived alone and socially integrated, although a pedophile tendency towards boys in close family and friends may well have been noticed.

What was also noticeable was a certain willingness to take risks on the part of the perpetrator, who exposed himself to possible discovery at many crime scenes. In addition, he had transported the three German murder victims in particular over long distances by car, in the case of Dennis Rostel even more than 250 kilometers across the border to Denmark, which was then still guarded. Nevertheless, he had always managed to hardly leave any traces. The investigators therefore assumed an intelligent perpetrator who probably carried out his actions in a familiar environment and planned accordingly in advance.

Manhunt

Despite checking all relatives and acquaintances of the victims and a mass DNA test on hundreds of men from northern Germany, Ney initially remained undetected. Special commissions from Germany, the Netherlands and France worked closely together on the case.

The perpetrator and his crimes were drawn attention to several times on television, including in special programs on Stern TV , Spiegel TV , crime report , unsolved murders and Galileo . In addition, reports on the crimes were broadcast three times with reference number XY ... unsolved , but without receiving any decisive information from viewers.

The police followed up around 7,800 leads without a breakthrough. In August 2010, a witness reported to the police who had seen an old documentary on the series of murders on the Internet that brought back a memory. He stated that he had seen the perpetrator and the victim Dennis Klein in the car on a forest path during an early morning jog near the kidnapping site, whereupon a so-called situation sketch was made and published on February 10, 2011.

arrest

On April 15, 2011, the police announced the arrest of an urgent suspect . The decisive clue came from a previous victim who had been abused by a masked perpetrator in his parents' house in 1995 and who, in the course of the situation sketch published in February 2011, had remembered that a few months before the abuse from the supervisor of a children's leisure center about his living situation had been questioned. The then 40-year-old Ney from Hamburg-Harburg , who had lived in Bremen until September 2000, made a confession after the first interrogations. He admitted to murdering Stefan Jahr, Dennis Rostel and Dennis Klein and abusing about 40 other children.

Investigative knowledge

During his interrogations, Martin Ney stated that he committed the three murders he had confessed to in order to cover up the sexual abuse and not to be identified as the perpetrator. According to his own statement, he strangled Stefan Jahr the night he disappeared because he had taken him in his car and feared that it might have noticed his license plate number. He had also transported Dennis Rostel in his car and spent a few days with him in a holiday home near Holstebro in Denmark before strangling him. He suffocated Dennis Klein because he is said to have loudly defended himself against the abuse.

Even before his arrest, Martin Ney had been noticed by the police several times for various reasons. After threatening two parents from Bremen with the kidnapping and killing of their children at the age of 17 , he was sentenced in 1989 for the attempted extortion of 150,000 DM under juvenile law to do charitable work.

When this previous conviction was deleted from the education register at the age of 24 , Martin Ney applied to the Office for Social Services in Bremen for a foster son in 1995. The young, single student who at this time in a studio and 870 DM Bafög lived, though regarded as an unusual candidate for such a function, due to the small number of available foster parents , however, the youth welfare office accepted him as a foster father.

A guardianship judge from the Bremen-Blumenthal district court , before whom Ney had to answer as a youth for attempted blackmail, granted custody of a twelve-year-old boy to the child murderer who had been murdered twice at the time. He lived with Ney until he came of age and, according to his own statements, was never sexually abused by him.

After completing his teacher training course, Ney broke off the subsequent legal clerkship before the second state examination and in 2000 applied for a job in childcare at a Hamburg foundation with falsified university certificates as a graduate social pedagogue , which he held until the beginning of 2008. In previous years, Ney had already worked as a youth worker alongside his studies and was thus able to familiarize himself with some of the victims and locations.

In 2005 he was accused of sexual abuse in two less serious cases, but the proceedings were discontinued on payment of a sum of 1,800 euros. In 2006, Ney threatened a social worker from Berlin to report him for possession of child pornography and demanded 20,000 euros for his silence. He was then in the same year for attempted extortion to imprisonment of ten months on probation convicted.

In the course of this investigation, the police also seized his computer during a search of Ney's apartment in March 2006, on which, among other things, around 30,000 photos with child pornography were discovered. As it could not be clarified when the images were saved on the computer and when they were last accessed, the public prosecutor closed the proceedings in 2007 due to the presumed limitation period . It was not recognized that some of the photos kept in the evidence room of the Hamburg police showed earlier victims.

In December 2007, Martin Ney was interviewed for the first time by SoKo Dennis , because he had found matches with the perpetrator profile by means of the grid search . He denied any sexual reference to children. The request to submit a saliva sample , which he voluntarily did not comply with in 2008, could not be legally enforced due to a lack of sufficient suspicion.

After his arrest, Ney's computer was again confiscated, and in November 2011 his new tenant discovered several storage media that were hidden under an extractor hood in his former apartment. The investigators were unable to find out the password and view the data backed up in this way. Martin Ney refused to give the password on the grounds of the protection of family and friends. The probability of being able to decrypt the complex access code without his help was rated as low despite the use of the most modern technology. At the end of 2016, Martin Ney voluntarily gave the passwords to the authorities. As of May 2017, the evaluation of the data carriers was not yet completed.

Condemnation

On July 15, 2011, the Stade public prosecutor brought charges against Ney for triple murder and sexual abuse in 20 cases. Around 20 other cases of abuse had already expired. The trial before the Stade Regional Court began on October 10 , and the accused confessed. Psychological evaluators attested him a pedophile fault , but because of its controlled Tatvorgehens full criminal responsibility as well as a continuing danger with possible risk of relapse . During the process there were indications of further acts of abuse in the 2000s and thus an increased likelihood of relapse.

On 27 February 2012 Martin Ney eventually became a murder for concealment of crimes to Stefan year, Dennis Rostel and Dennis Klein and 20 abuse offenses life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention condemned. In addition, the court determined the particular gravity of the guilt . Ney's defense lawyers appealed against the judgment regarding the ordered preventive detention .

On January 10, 2013, the Federal Court of Justice granted the appeal and lifted the preventive detention that had been imposed. This was justified with the reference that, according to the current legal situation, preventive detention can only be ordered for essential protection of the general public. Since the Federal Court of Justice has confirmed the particular gravity of the guilt, the minimum imprisonment period of 15 years, which is customary for a life sentence, will be extended. In addition, a suspended sentence can only take place if the convicted person can be proven to be safe. Such proof would, however, also suspend the execution of preventive detention. Otherwise it can be assumed that Martin Ney will remain in custody, possibly until the end of his life.

reception

Link to the Madeleine McCann missing person case

In May 2019 it was announced that the Portuguese authorities had learned that Ney was said to have told a fellow prisoner something about the Madeleine McCann missing person case that only someone who was involved in the kidnapping of the four-year-old British girl from a Portuguese holiday resort could know . A McCann family spokesman confirmed that police had questioned Ney on the matter, but Ney denied involvement. At the time of the suspected kidnapping, Ney had been working in a church shelter for the homeless near the holiday resort and had been to the holiday area several times in the 1990s. A former resort employee reported to the police after spotting another man on recordings in a Netflix documentary about the missing person who she said was also traveling with Ney. The Portuguese police then questioned the other man, whose name is not publicly known, but who is believed to be the new suspect in the case. The Portuguese police made it explicitly clear that Ney is not the new suspect.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Zand-Vakili, Edgar S. Hasse: Profiler described pedophile educators in detail. In: welt.de. April 15, 2011, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Successful search - Dennis suspect admits murder of three children . In: spiegel.de . April 15, 2011, accessed December 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Karin Truscheit: "Mask Man" Trial - Life imprisonment for child murderer Martin N. In: faz.net . February 27, 2012, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Jan Draeger: Hunt for a serial killer . In: The world . February 11, 2011, p. 32 ( welt.de [accessed on August 13, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Did “Mask Man” also kill in France? In: ndr.de. April 18, 2018, archived from the original on April 18, 2018 ; accessed on April 11, 2020 .
  6. ^ Judges pass judgment against Martin N. In: Stern issue 9/2012
  7. ↑ DNA analysis confirms: Dennis is dead. In: stern.de . September 22, 2001, accessed June 13, 2020.
  8. ↑ n-tv.de: SoKo has a trace of the perpetrator , accessed on April 17, 2011
  9. ↑ Kidnapping from the youth hostel - will the serial offender strike again? (No longer available online.) In: stern.de. June 24, 2009, archived from the original on August 28, 2009 ; accessed on August 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ cf. Wolfgang Heumer: Does a DNA trace lead to Dennis' murderer? - Soko: Several hundred men have to undergo a genetic test , in: Hamburger Abendblatt of February 28, 2008, p. 24.
  11. ↑ cf. N / A : 40 references to the abuse of boys after a TV search , in: Die Welt, August 7, 2009, p. 30.
  12. ^ The phantom takes shape Spiegel Online, February 10, 2011.
  13. ↑ Dennis case - suspect confesses series of murders. In: Focus Online . April 15, 2011, accessed July 14, 2020.
  14. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Soko Dennis - The man with the mask. In: Spiegel Online . October 7, 2011, accessed May 13, 2020.
  15. ↑ Kerstin Herrnkind : Judges pass judgment against Martin N. - career of a child murderer. In: stern.de. February 26, 2012, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Heike Leuschner: Password remains encrypted. In: nordsee-zeitung.de. January 7, 2012, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  17. ^ Child murderer Martin N. - “Mask man” reveals passwords after years. In: spiegel.de. May 8, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Revision inserted in the "mask man" process. (No longer available online.) In: ndr.de. March 5, 2012, archived from the original on January 23, 2013 ; accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  19. ↑ BGH on "Masked Man" - Lifelong detention instead of preventive detention. In: spiegel.de. January 11, 2013, accessed March 14, 2019 .
  20. ↑ a b c d e Barbie Latza Nadeau: New Break in Maddie McCann Case Centers on Killer Pedophile. In: The Daily Beast. May 6, 2019, Retrieved May 27, 2019 (American English).
  21. ↑ Adam Forrest: German pedophile is new suspect in Madeleine McCann investigation, reports say. In: The Independent. Retrieved May 5, 2019, May 27, 2019 (UK English).
  22. ↑ a b Gerard Couzens: Child killer Martin Ney 'not a Madeleine McCann suspect'. In: Mirror. Retrieved May 6, 2019, May 27, 2019 (UK English).
  23. ↑ a b Dominik Göttker: Maddie McCann: Trace leads to child murderer from Germany - but one detail is suspicious. In: derwesten.de. May 21, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ney, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black man; N. Martin; Mask man
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen