The Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann and the Bones in the Leine
May 1924. Children playing by the River Leine in Hanover pull a human skull from the mud. Then another. Then hundreds of bones. At least twenty-two young men.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Fritz Haarmann — police informant, former butcher, and the man Germany called the Vampire, the Wolf Man, and the Butcher of Hanover. Between 1918 and 1924 he lured boys and young men from the station with the promise of food and a bed. He was convicted of twenty-four murders and executed in 1925. The river never gave everyone back.
Content warning: sexual violence, murder, and dismemberment of young…
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