It's Sunday, So... Let's Talk Vampires
If you have the nickname "The Vampire" of any city, I am going to talk about you.
(AFTP Angie Everhart in "Bordello of Blood")
A couple of months back, I wrote about a guy named Albert Fish who was also known as "The Brooklyn Vampire" and it sufficiently disturbed my small-but-very-intelligent following.
To give you a quick recap… In the early 1900s, Albert Fish tortured, mutilated, and murdered young children with his "implements of hell": a meat cleaver, a butcher knife, and a small handsaw.
Although only 3 were confirmed, authorities believe that Fish killed anywhere from 10-100 children and then ate their remains.
In November of 1934, he wrote a letter to Mrs. Delia Flanagan Budd who had a 10-year-old daughter named Grace that went missing a few weeks prior. Albert went into a harrowing and detailed description of her daughter’s murder within the pages of the letter, and then he ended his note by telling this poor mom just how delicious her daughter was after he cooked and ate her.
That was "The Brooklyn Vampire" and he was deservedly executed on January 16, 1936, in the electric chair at Sing Sing.
This week on Twisted History, I learned of a second Vampire that existed around the same time as Albert but was arguably worse than Fish… His name is Peter Kürten and he was also known as "The Vampire of Düsseldorf."
I think bullet points are easier on the eye, so I am going to give you a SHITLOAD of disturbing bullets about Peter Kürten:
- He was the eldest of thirteen children, and his father was an abusive alcoholic who eventually went to prison for raping his 13-year-old daughter.
- At the age of 9, Peter met a dog-catcher who introduced him to the practice of bestiality which they carried out initially on dogs.
- Also a the age of 9, Kurten claims to have drowned two school friends by holding their heads underwater until they had suffocated… It was dismissed as a tragic childhood accident.
- As Kurten matured sexually, his bestiality naturally progressed from dogs to sheep and goats AND he also discovered that fucking an animal was particularly pleasurable when the animal was stabbed during intercourse.
- In his teens, he admitted to decapitating a swan in order to drink the blood from the animal’s neck, achieving an earth-shattering orgasm in the process.
- At the age of 39, Kürten committed his first murder as an adult… He was robbing a tavern and stabbed a 10-year-old girl to death.
- Two months later Kürten murdered again, this time a 17-year-old girl whom he strangled… Much like the swan, Peter later admitted that he experienced an orgasm during the course of this murder… It was then Kurten realized he needed to kill for sexual pleasure.
- Kürten was called into military service during WW2 but soon went AWOL.
- In 1921, he married a former prostitute and tried to straighten out his life a bit… He remained relatively dormant for nearly 8 years.
- Starting in February 1929, he embarked on a bloody murder and assault spree that terrified the city of Düsseldorf.
And here's all the shit he did over the next 9 months… The random nature of these crimes fucking baffled Düsseldorf police, who had zero leads on the psycho who was menacing their city:
- Kürten stabbed an elderly woman over 20 times with a pair of scissors… The victim survived.
- Kürten strangled a 17-year-old girl named Gertrud Franken, ejaculating at the sight of blood spouting from her mouth.
- He strangled a nine-year-old girl named Rosa Ohliger into unconsciousness, before stabbing her in the stomach, temple, genitals, and heart with a pair of scissors, spontaneously ejaculating as he knifed the child and inserting his semen into her vagina with his fingers.
- Stabbed a 27-year-old housemaid named Gertrude Schulte in the head, neck, shoulder, and back.
- Stabbed a 13-year-old to death and set her body on fire.
- A 45-year-old mechanic was stabbed to death and several more Düsseldorfians died from hammer blows, or from Peter Kürten’s own hands.
- On November 7, 1929, he stabbed 5-year-old Gertrude Albermann with a pair of scissors and again achieved orgasm during the assault.
- Then in May 1930, Kürten lured a young woman into a forest and raped her, and, for some reason, he then let her go.
And that is where he got caught.
Instead of reporting the rape to the police, the young woman wrote about what happened in a letter to a friend… However, that letter was luckily and accidentally sent to the wrong address, and the woman who had mistakenly received the letter immediately turned it over to the Düsseldorf police who were able to track down the author of the letter, and she led them to the apartment where Peter Kürten lived.
Kürten eventually confessed but in an unusual way… Throughout all the stabby orgasms, he was still in love with the former prostitute he married back in 1921, so he confessed all the murders and attacks he had committed to her. His wife, in turn, gave all the evil details to the police and was, therefore, able to collect the large reward being offered for the capture of "The Vampire of Düsseldorf."
Once in custody, Peter Kürten was quickly found guilty and sentenced to death.
On July 2, 1931, he was beheaded by guillotine.
And one last creepy thing… Here are his last words before they lopped his fucking head off…
“Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?… That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
Rest in 2 pieces, you sick fuck, and take a report.
-Large
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-L
Some of those details of Kürten's life were certainly discomposing, so I apologize for hitting you with so much deep shit on a Sunday.
To make up for it, here's the sexiest vampire of all time…