Karel Chavva

 VICTIMS: 5

Police have absolutely no idea what led Karel Chavva to flip out like he did. As far as I know they still haven't come up with anything definite. And what exactly did he do?

Well on June 3, 1983 Karel Chavva showed up at a school in Eppstein-Vockenhausen, near Frankfurt, and requested an interview with the headmaster. The school secretary made an appointment and also gave directions where he could find another man he requested to see, Adolf Gelhaar, an English teacher, on the second floor.

Once Chavva had found his way to Gelhaar's classroom he pulled out two revolvers. He then opened the door and entered the room firing indiscriminately at anything. He killed two 13-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 36-year-old teacher. He also wounded his intended victim, Adolf Gelhaar.

And this is an amusing part:
There were two policemen at the school that day instructing students in the schoolyard. They were both unarmed and thought the gun shots were just science experiments. But one of the policemen, Gisbert Beck, 45, thought he might just check the noises out, just in case. He was shot dead not long after.

Karel Chavva went on to injured a further 13 kids, 5 seriously, before tiring of his revenge. He did the most fashionable thing a mass murderer can - he raised one of his guns to his head and BANG! - bye bye Karel Chavva.

When police investigated the crime they found that Chavva was born in Czechoslovakia, but was granted political asylum in Germany 12 years earlier. He had also been a trainee psychologist, but this line of work seemed to fail as he had been driving Taxi's for the final few years of his life. At no stage in Investigations did they find out why he snapped.
 

MY OPINION

A very unusual case. I must say that it's not often that you come across something like this where there is almost no clues as to why a murderer goes off. And it was a very good murder indeed. Chavva is one of those killers that really does deserve to be studied much more deeply (if it has been and you can add any info I don't have please email me). Another great European murderer ignored by the U.S.