Born in 1883 in Cologne (Germany) in a country as poor as large family (he was the third of thirteen children), and all lived under appalling conditions in a very small space and a deplorable family atmosphere. His father, unemployed, was an alcoholic and a bad temper, often beat his wife and children. When he was only eight years, Peter makes a first attempt to escape and runs away from home.
When his family moved to Düsserdolf in 1894, he escapes again and start living like a bum performing shoplifting to survive, showing at such a young age of criminal instincts enjoys strangling squirrels and mistreating strays who crossed his way, as well as other animals to see their blood running also committing bestiality acts slaughtered sheep that once reached orgasm. On one occasion is even raping one …show more content…
In 1913 she makes her first sex crime: viola and savagely degolla Christine Klein, a girl of 13 years.
Years later, when he himself had forty, his life seems to turn around and married a woman from a good family. Dressing changes appearance with elegance and simplicity, she combed her hair with glitter (product almost unknown in Germany at the time), wore glasses, sported a trimmed mustache, and even used face powders.
Like most sexual sadists, Kürten seems to lead a normal life like any good husband. He worked as a truck driver, and his wife never suspected that after a man so polite and attentive as her husband could hide the author of such bloody crimes.
Between 1925 and 1930 a series of crimes that shake and sensitize the population, similar to that suffered London in times of another murderer known occur in the small German town: Jack the