Werner Boost
Werner Boost (born May 6, 1928 in Düsseldorf ) was a German alleged serial killer who went down in German criminal history of the 1950s as a so-called love couple killer . Boost was charged with a series of double murders of lovers. However, only the first of the accused murders , that of the lawyer Lothar Servé in January 1953, has been proven to be court proof .
Life
Werner Boost was born in 1928 under the name Werner Korecki and spent his childhood and youth in a Protestant children's home in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth , where his mother had taken him. He was later admitted to a welfare home after stealing 300 Reichsmarks from his mother. Werner Boost never met his father.
At the age of 16 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht after two broken apprenticeships and shortly thereafter became an American prisoner of war . A new attempt made after the end of the war to complete his apprenticeship as a baker's apprentice failed and Boost made his way as a casual worker and escape helper in the former GDR . He was sentenced to a three-week prison term by the judiciary in the Soviet occupation zone .
Boost married in 1949 and moved the following year with his family, which included two daughters, to live with his mother in Düsseldorf. During this time he was sentenced to several months' imprisonment for theft committed together with his friend and later murder assistant Franz Lorbach .
Crime series
In 1953, a three-year series of double murders of lovers began. The first victim was the lawyer Bernd Servé. Servé was in his car with his 18-year-old partner Adolf Mantelcremer when they were attacked by masked perpetrators. While Servé died immediately after being shot in the head, Mantelcremer was able to avoid the same fate thanks to a trick. The murderers believed him dead after being struck with a gun. In fact, the slightly injured shell creamer only played dead and was later able to alert the police.
In November 1955 the police recovered a sunk car from a gravel lake near Düsseldorf-Kalkum , in it the corpses of the 26-year-old baker Friedhelm Behre and his partner Thea Kürmann - like Servé and Mantelcremer, both robbed and murdered.
On February 8, 1956, while searching for two people reported missing , police officers came across an empty vehicle. Because numerous traces of blood could be found inside, the surrounding area was extensively searched. The next day, the cremated bodies of the missing 20-year-old secretary Hildegard Wassing and her companion Peter Falkenberg were found in a haystack not far from the vehicle .
Arrest and trial
Boost was arrested four months later . A Revieroberjäger discovered him while he was watching a couple having fun in a car in a wood near Düsseldorf. Although there was an opportunity to escape, Boost did not resist his arrest.
At the trial in June 1956, his former assistant Lorbach testified against Boost. Lorbach confessed to the attack on Bernd Servé and his partner in 1953 and stated that Boost had killed his victim with a targeted shot in the head. Based on this statement, Boost was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in unity with aggravated robbery .
The other double murders accused of Boost - as well as another attempted murder of lovers in 1956, which could only be prevented because the woman was able to call passers-by for help - the court considered insufficiently proven.
The behavior and approach of the defendant, who was otherwise considered inconspicuous, was described by observers as charismatic. Franz Lorbach, who portrayed his bizarre fantasies in search of the perfect murder as a personal instrument controlled by Boost, described his relationship with Werner Boost in a similar way.
Taking into account his confession, Lorbach was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for aiding and abetting.
In July 1990 Werner Boost was released from the Schwerte correctional facility after 34 years in prison .
literature
- Michael Newton: The Great Encyclopedia of Serial Killers . 5th edition, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-85365-240-4
- Stephan Harbort : The couple killer . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-1190-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel, article Murderers on the move of July 5, 1971
- ↑ Maxwill, Peter: On excursion murder . In: SPIEGEL-ONLINE, URL (accessed on April 22, 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boost, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Korecki, Werner (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | alleged German serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Düsseldorf , Rhine Province , Free State of Prussia , Weimar Republic |