Thomas Rung

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Thomas Rung (*  3. January 1961 in Berlin ( West )) is a German killer. He is considered the most dangerous serial killer in Berlin since the end of the war.

Life

Rung was born on January 3, 1961, the sixth of seven children. His father drank and ruled with great violence and severity. His mother left the family when he was two years old. The stepmother, Aunt Hilde, “sat on a throne. She was the judge ”and ordered sentences that the father carried out. Under such violence, he lacked love, warmth, caring. Rung attended the special school and was noticed during his school days through break-ins and bodily harm . Before he was arrested for murder in 1995, Rung had been imprisoned many times on various offenses.

Between 1983 and 1995 he killed a total of six women and his stepbrother in cold blood. His victims were raped, strangled, drowned or suffocated and robbed by him. Due to the different approaches and without the perpetrator DNA evidence available today, no connection between the individual offenses was established for a long time. Two of the victims - his 77-year-old landlady and a 22-year-old student - were murdered in 1983 on Silbersteinstrasse in Berlin-Neukölln . For Rung's first murder (with broken ribs) of his landlady in 1984, Michael Mager, who was also 23 years old and briefly confessed to the police, was falsely convicted and imprisoned for six years.

Rung was arrested in 1995 and confessed. A year later, the Berlin Regional Court sentenced him to double life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention . The forensic psychiatrist Wilfried Rasch rated him in his report as someone who “committed these acts despite his normality”.

In 2001 he abused a prisoner in the Tegel correctional facility and was therefore sentenced by the Berlin Regional Court to an additional two years and eight months in prison. Because Rung had injured another prisoner in 2003 - this time life-threateningly - the Berlin Regional Court imposed ten more years of imprisonment and a second preventive detention for attempted manslaughter. Rung was initially imprisoned in Berlin-Moabit , because the Tegel prison refused to accept him again, then transferred to the Celle prison in Lower Saxony.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Katja Füchsel: "I am not a person, I am a monster". In: Der Tagesspiegel. May 17, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Sigrid Averesch: Berlin district court imposed a double life prison sentence. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 6, 1996, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  3. Fred Hasselmann, Lutz Schnedelbach: Indictment against alleged serial killer Rung finished / Embarrassing miscarriage of justice before the investigation. A prosecutor is now getting cold feet. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 14, 1995, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  4. Sigrid Averesch: The retrial for the murder of a pensioner begins today / Innocent, the 33-year-old now served six years in prison. Now the judges have to believe Michael Mager. In: Berliner Zeitung . August 8, 1996, accessed February 12, 2019 .
  5. Sigdrid Averesch: Berlin district court imposed a double life sentence. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 6, 1996, accessed February 12, 2019 .