The Vampire of Düsseldorf: Peter Kürten
Düsseldorf, 1929. An eight-year-old is found under a hedge. Then a mechanic in the road. Then two sisters after a fair. The papers name him before they have a face: the Vampire of Düsseldorf.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of Peter Kürten — the moulder, the husband, the man who spent half his life in German prisons and the other half turning violence into pleasure. From the 1913 murder of Christine Klein to the year a city locked its doors, the confession that became a book, and the guillotine in Cologne.
Nine murders the court proved. Dozens of attacks he claimed. The names the nickname…
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