Peter Pompetzki

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Peter-Sascha Pompetzki (born March 25, 1970 in Marburg , † May 19, 1993 in Kassel ) was a German student and convicted murderer.

Life

Pompetzki was born as the only child of the architect and building contractor Walter Pompetzki and his wife Annemarie. He grew up in sheltered, well-to-do circumstances in Goddelsheim (Northern Hesse). He was described as a highly intelligent, career-oriented model student and an introverted loner. After graduating from the Alte Landesschule in Korbach, which he left as the best in his year, he began studying business administration at the University of Marburg .

The murder of his parents

After trying unsuccessfully for days to contact his parents by phone, Peter Pompetzki drove from his place of study to his parents' house on July 31, 1991. In the basement of the property, at the edge of the swimming pool, he found his parents lying naked on the floor, dead. The decomposition process had already started. The investigation revealed that two days earlier they had been shot from behind with eight shots, presumably from the 6.35 pistol of the entrepreneur - a passionate hunter. The situation at the crime scene initially indicated a robbery.

His hypothermic behavior after the fact made Pompetzki come into the field of vision of the investigators. They put forward the thesis that he had been pursuing the plan for a long time to murder his parents in order to get the substantial inheritance prematurely. The burglary was only fabricated by him. Shortly before the fact, Pompetzki had lost around DM 26,000 while trading warrants. He was arrested 14 days after the bodies were found. He denied the act and made clear in letters to friends that he had a lifelong relationship with his parents as the only reference person.

On November 10, 1992, the trial against him began before the 5th criminal chamber of the Kassel regional court chaired by Wolfgang Löffler. The public prosecutor's office tried to prove that he had maliciously murdered his parents out of greed and, in particular, accused him of his sometimes contradicting testimony. Pompetzki's defense attorney Ulrich Ziegert asserted, in addition to the implausible motive, that there were no usable traces at the scene of the crime that would indicate the son's perpetration. The murder weapon, stolen jewelry and carpets have disappeared to this day. After 38 days of trial, he was found guilty solely on the basis of circumstantial evidence and on May 17, 1993, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. His defense lawyers immediately announced a revision.

Two days after the verdict, Pompetzki hanged himself in the prison in Kassel I on the bars of his cell with the power cable and the antenna cable of the television. In a suicide note, he once again protested his innocence. With his will, laid down four days earlier, he decreed that the Korbach animal shelter should receive DM 5,000 a month to look after his Chow Chow Askan . The rest of the assets, about 4.8 million DM gross, were given to the animal shelter for free use. The dog died in 1996. In his will he also disclosed his father's black money accounts in Switzerland and Austria. Three months after his death, a safe was found in a blind ventilation shaft in his parents' house that contained securities and cash worth DM 800,000.

filming

His story was written in 2000 on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk by the documentary filmmaker Klaus Stern under the title Innschuldig - Schuldig? filmed. With the help of interviews with his defense attorney, friends, fellow students, the presiding judge and neighbors, as well as letters from Pompetzki's estate, Stern drew a nuanced picture of the convict. In 2001 the work was nominated for the German Television Prize and the Hessian Film Prize.

The case was also shown in an episode of the RTL series Lawyers of the Dead .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Innocent - guilty? - The story of Peter Pompetzki (ARD / HR)
  2. ↑ a b c Lifelong for Pompetzki , Frankfurter Rundschau of May 18, 1993
  3. ↑ a b Pompetzki killed himself in the cell , Frankfurter Rundschau of May 21, 1993
  4. ↑ The murder trial began "completely undramatically" , Gelnhauser Tageblatt of November 11, 1992
  5. ^ Hessenschau, May 17, 1993
  6. ^ German TV Prize, nominees 2001 [1] . Retrieved March 7, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pompetzki, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pompetzki, Peter-Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German murderer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1993
Place of death kassel