Bruno Ludke

VICTIMS: ? (85 confessed)

Born in Germany in 1909, Ludke was a petty thief and mental retard who got off on torturing animals.

At eighteen he started killing humans, obsessively stalking anyone who even remotely turned him on. Once he actually ran down a woman with his horse drawn cart, leaving her to die.

Once WW2 started Ludke really started to hunt. Unluckily for him he was caught while molesting one young lady and, under Himmlers orders, was sterilized. Having no balls didn't seem to stop him though as he kept on killing after the *CHOP*.

Ludke's method was quite simple, he would either strangle or stab the girls/women. He usually raped them as well, before and after death. Usually after.

Ludke's luck eventually ran out on January 29, 1943, when he killed Frieda Rosner. The cops, while doing routine investigating stumbled upon poor Bruno, who went crazy on them, assaulting them, before being arrested.

Once in custody Ludke, unable to be charged as he was 'mentally defective', told his tale. In all he admitted to 85 killings, claiming rape was the main objective (although some had been robbed). The police allege that they checked out all the confessed murders and that most were definitely done by Ludke, but it has been argued since that they were just trying to clean out there books. (sound familiar?)

Ludke was immune from prosecution so the Nazi's decided that they would use him in some experiments. He died from a chemical injection in Vienna on April 8, 1944.
 


MY OPINION

Personally I don't like 'mental defectives' but Ludke was a bit of an amusing character. AND if he did kill 85 that's gotta be worth something (although I reckon he's playing the Henry Lee Lucas game there). These years in Germany produced some of the greatest killers ever, and I think that I would rate Ludke on the second tier of this group (Kurten, Grossmann, Haarmann etc). If only I could get a full book on him to at least learn some of the truth.