He is said to have acted purely out of a desire to murder, following the example of an American serial killer: Less than four months after the violent death of a 14-year-old in Lohr am Main, Lower Franconia, the public prosecutor’s office has charged a man of the same age with murder. “He only committed the crime to kill someone,” said a spokesman for the authority on Tuesday in Würzburg.
According to previous findings, the defendant probably worshiped the serial criminal Jeffrey Dahmer, who committed one of the most gruesome murder series in the USA and about whom there is a Netflix series – Dahmer dismembered his at least 17 male victims between 1978 and 1991 and ate body parts. Previously it had Main post reported. The accused German is said to have killed his victim with a shot in the head from behind on September 8, 2023 on a school campus in the small town of Lohr in the Main-Spessart district. According to the investigators, there have been no indications of other perpetrators or helpers.
The Würzburg regional court must now decide whether to admit the charges and set trial dates. The suspect has remained silent about the allegations since his arrest. According to investigators, the young man was fascinated by the murderer Dahmer, known as the “Cannibal of Milwaukee.” “He probably had friends call him that name,” said the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office. He committed the crime out of pure murderous desire.
The murder weapon, a 9-millimeter pistol, legally belonged to a neighbor of the defendant. According to the police, he had all permits. He also stored his weapons properly. How the student got the gun is not publicly known. The gun owner could not be questioned after the crime because he was in the hospital. He died a few weeks after the crime. The 66-year-old is said to have known the young man.
After the crime, the investigative commission, with the support of the riot police and specially trained data carrier dogs, searched for the victim’s cell phone for days. It was eventually found – whether it helped the investigators any further is unknown. A 15-year-old alerted the police to the events on the day of the crime, a Friday during the summer holidays. A little later, patrol officers discovered the dead 14-year-old. He was an Italian citizen and had lived in Lohr for years. The boy was lying in bushes near the school center where he attended middle school. The suspect was arrested a short time later.