Luigi Longhi

VICTIMS : 1


"I never intended to kill her . . . suddenly she went limp
and I realized she was dead."

I have only ever read two tiny little pieces about poor old Luigi, so this is fairly brief. I hope that someone out there recognizes the story and will be able to email me absolutely any update at all on the case.

Luigi Longhi was a lorry driver who lived in a town called Padborg. I'm not really sure where Padborg was, but I think it's in Denmark somewhere.

Luigi had a particularly bizarre fetish, he liked to shampoo women's hair. He liked it so much that it seemed to be the only way that he could become aroused.

So anyway, Luigi was driving his lorry through Germany one day when he picked up a hitch-hiker called Heike Freiheit. She must have liked Luigi because she ended up at his apartment.

When they were at the apartment she learned of Luigi's passion for hair washing. He gave a jolly good lathering on their first night together. Once the bliss of the shampooing had ended Heike fell asleep.

When she woke up she was tied up, gagged and had Luigi running his soapy fingers through her hair once more. Luigi certainly did like a good foam-up.

Eventually Luigi ran out of shampoo to use on his little German hair model, so instead of doing what any rational person would do (go down to the shops to get some more shampoo) he decided to use stuff from around his flat. Over the next few hours he rubbed cottage cheese, honey and even salad dressing through poor Heike's scalp.

Somewhere along the way Luigi removed Heike's clothes "because I wanted to see how she looked naked."

Unsurprisingly Heike began to tire of Luigi's foamy fetish and started to stamp her feet on the floor, attempting to alert Luigi's neighbors. But Luigi would have none of that. He took a piece of rope, tied it into a noose, placed it around her neck and strangled the last breathe from poor Heike's body.

Left with the question of what to do with the corpse Luigi chose to place in inside a wall cavity, plastering her up for what he though would be eternity.

Unfortunately for Luigi in 1983 a repairman was called to fix the roof of the building. Apparently he smelt something rather bad in the wall. He decided to check it out and discovered Luigi's secret.

Once arrested Luigi was studied by a team of psychiatrists. They concluded that he had never had penetrative intercourse. For him the only sexual pleasure seemed to be from shampooing woman's hair. They found that he had started out on his 'lathering' ways at the age of ten when he started stealing shampoo bottles and wigs. As he grew older he began to force woman to submit to his 'hair washing' desires. He said that he had at least ten woman in the Padborg area that allowed him to carry out these fantasies on their hair and that he had never assaulted any of these woman in any way.

On March 11, 1983, Longhi, who had pled not guilty, was sentenced to psychiatric confinement for an indefinite period.

And that's all I know about the guy.

 


MY OPINION

If ever there was a case of 'I wish I knew more' this is it. What a nutter. As someone who has waist length hair I really can't understand this fetish at all. In fact I HATE washing my hair. It's such a pain in the arse. I could never see myself actually getting off on it. But then again, I wouldn't strangle a girl and hide her in the wall either.