Harald and Frank Alexander

 VICTIMS: 3

This story is one of the most bizarre family tales that I believe I’ve ever read about. They lived in Hamburg, Germany, and in the 60’s the father, Harald, formed the Lorber Society.

The Lorber Society was a religious ‘cult’ that followed the teachings of 19th Century prophet and cleric Jacob Lorber. The basic rules of the ‘society’ were that all followers needed to totally withdraw from society and that they needed to prove total self sacrifice. All non-members of the ‘society’ were seen to be owned by Satan. A pretty bizarre religion I’m sure you’ll all agree. Harald became the leading ‘expert’ on Jacob Lorber when Greg Riehle (the man who Lorber passed his knowledge onto) died. Not only did he get everything he ever wanted to know about Jacob Lorber from Riehle, he also got a lovely portable organ that accompanied all the groups worship sessions.

In 1954 Harald and his wife, Dagmar, had a son. He was named Frank, not such a strange name, but he also had another title that his father bestowed on him, The Prophet of God.

As The Prophet of God every single wish of Frank’s had to be followed, Harald made certain of this. From this I’m guessing that he was rather spoilt as a child.

When the Prophet of God reached his teens he, like all us mere mortals, started having impure thoughts. Unfortunately for him though all the chicks he checks he perved on in the street were dirty whores that were owned by Satan. His father would never allow such sluts to have a chance to taste the Prophets semen. No, there was only one woman good enough for the Prophet of God, Dagmar Alexander, his mother.

This went on for a while, but I guess the Prophet soon got tired of shagging only one woman, so his dad gave him another partner, his older sister Marina. So right about now your probably thinking it can’t really get a lot worse, well soon Harald got bared with his wife and sister sleeping with Frank, so he decided it was time to join in on the fun. I think I’ll be giving four in a bed romps a miss in the future (not that it has ever happened in the past).

So this rather odd situation continued for a few years until Franks younger sisters, Petra and Sabine, made comments regarding the interesting sex life of their family to their friends. At least one of these friends then passed on the odd happenings to their parents who didn’t waste anytime informing police of the situation.

Rather than hang around in Germany waiting for charges to be filed the Alexanders took flight, eventually settling in the Canary Islands. But the scare in Germany did nothing to stop the sex life of the Alexander family.

So, things just keep going along as usual for these nutters, until December 20, 1970. Harald and Frank arrived at youngest child Sabines’ place of work at a local doctors house. Sabine was greeted by her father, who stated that, “We wanted you to know at once that Frank and I have just killed your mother and your sisters.” Obviously she freaked out about this rather upsetting news, but she didn’t have to bother informing police as they were already at the Alexander house. it seems that the deaths of her mother and sisters was particularly loud and most of their neighbours had already called police.

It was reported that “Every inch of the apartment was dripping with blood.” The ceiling, the walls, the floor, the furniture, everything was covered with that red sticky stuff that comes out when you get cut.

According to one police officer the Alexander woman were almost completely ripped apart. Breast were nailed to the wall, “vaginal areas” were hacked out and nailed besides the breasts. Dagmars’ heart was torn out of her body and was impaled on a wooden stake. I guess all this didn’t really make for a great picture, or at least one that not everyone wants to see :-).

So what did Harald and Frank have to say about all this then?

- The Prophet of God deemed that December 20 was “the time”. So Harald broke out the portable organ and got cracking on some lovely hymns to accompany his sons actions, which were to beat his mother and two sisters to death with a large, heavy coat hanger(???). Once the girls were dead, or at least close enough to God to seem happy, the Prophet of God took over on the organ. While Frank played his tunes Harald walked around the house stopping every once in a while to hack out/off another limb/organ to nail onto the wall. All the while he was screaming out various prayers to the Lord.

Quite amusingly they called this time, “The Time of Cleansing.”

What happened to the Alexanders?

- They were, not surprisingly, found much too loony to stand trial, so it was off to the local nuthouse for these boys. According to Brian Lanes’, “Encyclopedia of Occult and Supernatural Murder” the two of them are still in that very same asylum to this day.

And the surviving sister. What happened to her?

- Well, this is where I lose all understanding of this case. Following the placement of her father and brother in a mental home for the criminally insane, Sabine begged a judge to be allowed to go with them. She felt the need to suffer alongside the male members of her family, even though she did nothing wrong. The authorities had to refuse her wish (even though it seems she was just as loopy). Instead she was sent to another place where idiots, weirdos, and social misfits go, a convent. Brian Lane also says that she is still there, and that she has never set foot outside the place since being sent there.
 

MY OPINION

This family was fucked up, no other way to describe it. But at the same time as saying that I reckon that they have more chance of getting into whatever 'promised land' may exist than most religious folk as they at least followed through with the beliefs they held, which while being completely fucking insane, were at least their own. Where I have the problem is with young Sabine. I know she was well brainwashed by the parents, but why would anyone want to suffer with the two nutters that just wiped out your female relatives. It makes no sense, and any sympathy I could have had for her goes out the door because of the sheer stupidity of this desire. Anyway, this case really does rate right up there with the best of them for two reasons, one, the insanity of it all, and two, the brutality. Breasts and cunts nailed to the wall, hearts on wooden steaks. Now that's brutality.