Thomas Holst

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Thomas Holst (born February 18, 1964 ) is a German serial killer who became known as the heathen killer .

Happenings

Between 1987 and 1989 Holst raped, tortured and dismembered three women in and south of Hamburg . A psychiatric report describes Holst as “untreatable with an extreme likelihood of relapse ”.

On September 27, 1995, his therapist at the time, Tamar Segal, helped him escape from the high-security wing of the forensic department of the Klinikum Nord ( Ochsenzoll location ) of what was then the LBK Hamburg in Hamburg-Langenhorn . The police search was initially unsuccessful, but a suspicion was soon directed against Segal. After his escape assistant had been arrested three months after the escape, Holst turned himself in on December 30, 1995 at Police Station 31 in the Hamburg district of Uhlenhorst .

On March 13, 1997, Holst and Segal married in the Hamburg remand prison . In 2003, the Hamburg Regional Court dismissed Holst's action for the consummation of his marriage to Tamar Segal. The aim was to make his detention easier to be able to meet regularly without observation with his wife in a visitor room at the North Hospital. The clinic had refused to do so, pointing out the danger to life and limb of his wife and the threat of escape . Holst appealed against the judgment unsuccessful appeal a.

Murder victim

  • Andrea Grube-Nagel († November 25, 1987): The 21-year-old student was forced into his car by Holst with a knife on the way from the Rissen S-Bahn station to her parents' house. Her body was found two days later near Kaltenkirchen .
  • Petra Maaßen († February 11, 1988): The 28-year-old housewife from Rahlstedt was forced into his car by Holst on the way home from a restaurant 400 m from her apartment under threat of violence. Her mutilated body was found a day later in a field near Bargfeld-Stegen .
  • Lara Holz († November 27, 1989): The 22-year-old cosmetics student got into Holst's car after she missed her train. Holst noticed this and offered her a ride. Her remains were found 5 days later in the Luheheide .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bunker yourself . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1996, p. 64-66 ( Online - Jan. 8, 1996 ).
  2. ↑ a b c Gisela Friedrichsen: Pig nest to the women. In: spiegel.de. April 12, 1993. Retrieved February 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c Triple Murders - The Blood Trail of the Heidemorders. In: mopo.de. June 26, 2011, accessed February 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Klaus Lohmann: Brutal lust murderer. In: shz.de. January 30, 2012, accessed February 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Holst, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German criminal who committed three feminicides
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1964