Peter Kürten

thumb|After my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures. Peter Kürten (26 May 1883 – 2 July 1931) was a German serial killer, known as The Vampire of Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Monster, who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults between February and November 1929 in the city of Düsseldorf. Quotes After my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures. Last words, before his execution by guillotine. Reported in J. P. Bean, ed., Verbals: The Book of Criminal Quotations (London: Headline, 1995), 0-7472-4818-4, p. 293 Quotes about Kürten Each night he went out to find a victim for the sadistic love-making which was the only sort which gave him true pleasure. He found many girls who enjoyed being half strangled during intercourse, and a number of them came back for more. Charles Franklin, "Dusseldorf's Reign of Terror", in John Canning, ed., 50 True Tales of Terror (1972), p. 335 At the age of sixteen he was living with a whore who was a masochist and who encouraged him to ill-treat her. She liked to be beaten and half-choked during intercourse. Kurten’s inborn sadism of course burst into vigorous flower in such a hotbed, if one may use the term, of eroticism. The woman’s sixteen-year-old daughter also lived in this curious establishment. Charles Franklin, "Peter Kurten", in The World's Worst Murderers (1965), p. 27 External links Category:1883 births Category:1931 deaths Category:Serial killers Category:People from Germany Category:Executed people Category:People from Düsseldorf