Confessing to eleven murders, to seven attempted murders, to a grand total of nearly 100 crimes, Peter Kuerten, a workman aged 47, sat in a neat blue serge suit, in the dock at Düsseldorf last week. A year and a half ago all Germany shuddered at the gruesome exploits of the "Düssel-dorf Murderer." Until he was jailed Düsseldorf children went to school in busses guarded by policemen with pistols (TIME, Jan. 13, June 9, 1930).
"I had to kill," confessed the Düsseldorf Murderer with stark simplicity. "Anybody...
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