Chapter 11 3. Satan on the Danube

On a mild night in the summer of 1975, in Munich, Germany, a prostitute named Nicole Ursey met a client for a tryst.A middle-aged man came to her apartment as expected.Hours later, Nicole was strangled to death in the apartment.Two days later, another prostitute died in the apartment.Her name was Arian Herbig, she was also strangled, and her apartment was ransacked. Munich is located at the northern foot of the Alps, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with beautiful scenery.The city is not only the most magnificent court cultural center in southern Germany, but also a famous tourist city in Europe.In addition, the city is most famous for its four abundances: many sculptures, many park fountains, many museums, and many beers. It is also known as the "City of Beer" because of the beer.In order to appreciate the city's museums and medieval monuments, and to participate in the city's annual Oktoberfest, many people come here especially.

Every year, tourists from home and abroad come to Munich in an endless stream.Among them, there are also some evil people mixed in. In the summer of 1975, several prostitutes died one after another.It is said that the perpetrator was a tourist from other places dressed like a gentleman.On that breezy, cozy night, the prostitute Nicole Ursey arrives as a client.This time, the person Nicole is waiting for is not an ordinary client, but the father of her unborn child. At the previous year's Oktoberfest, Nicole met a man who claimed to be a painter.Nicole fell in love with this man at first sight, fell in love at once, and decided not to be a prostitute, but to follow the painter alone.Within a few days, Nicole and the painter were like friends, and they were inseparable.However, one is a prostitute who sells her body to survive, and the other is a painter who lives all over the world. After all, they will be separated.One day, the painter finally left, and Nicole sent the painter away with tears in his eyes.When I left, the painter said that he would come back, and later the painter would come back every few months, and every time he came back, he would be mysterious.Happy, especially this time.Shortly after the last breakup, Nicole found out that she was pregnant, and it was confirmed that it was the painter's child.Nicole—resisting not to tell the painter all the time, in order to give him a surprise when they meet, and also want to tie the painter by this.

The time has pointed to 8 o'clock, and the painter has not come yet.Nicole was a little restless, pacing up and down the room, and occasionally went to the door to see if he was coming.Just when Nicole was anxious and looking forward to it, there was a hasty knock on the door.After hearing the knock on the door, Nicole, who was lying on the bed, jumped up and ran towards the door quickly. The door opened, and the person standing outside the door was the person he had been thinking about day and night. Nicole couldn't help but burst into tears.Seeing this, the painter picked up Nicole by the waist and went straight to the bedroom.Immediately, Nicole burst into laughter.They tore, kissed, and frolicked toward the bedroom.Everywhere I went, there were torn clothes.When the two walked to the bedside, the obstacles on their bodies had already been torn away.

After the lingering, Nicole couldn't wait to tell the painter about her pregnancy, hoping that he would never leave again. After hearing Nicole's words, the painter said angrily, "You want to marry me just by making a child?" "What do you mean?" Nicole said tearfully. "What do you mean? Don't you understand yourself?" the painter asked back. Nicole said sadly: "It seems that you still don't believe me, I've told you many times. I didn't do it long ago..." "Don't come here, the ghosts will believe it. Don't deceive me." Before Nicole could finish speaking, the painter interrupted her rudely.

In the painter's eyes, a prostitute is a prostitute, how could she change?In any case, he did not believe Nicole's words.The most important thing is that the painter thinks that he and Nicole have no love, they just get what they want.Nicole, however, took the painter's mischief seriously and produced a child. Thinking of how many sneers she suffered after meeting the painter, in order not to be a prostitute anymore, in order to survive.Sometimes, there is really no way she just drinks and drinks with the guests at most, and never sleeps with the guests again, let alone takes the guests home.However, now that the painter said such words recklessly, Nicole was about to collapse.She ran into the painter like crazy, and kept scratching and biting the painter...

"It's a madman." The painter cursed, getting dressed and preparing to leave. Seeing this, Nicole tightly hugged the painter's feet.However, the painter has no intention of nostalgia.Finally, Nicole threatened: "You beasty guy, I'm going to tell the police everything about you." After hearing Nicole's words, the painter's eyes were on fire. He raised Nicole's chin, stared into her eyes and said fiercely: "If you say a word, their end will be your end." After finishing speaking, the painter walked away. After the painter left, Nicole immediately began to pack his luggage.Thinking of what the painter said before he left and his ferocious appearance, Nicole was very frightened, so she planned to move immediately.

What secret does Nicole know about the painter, and why is she so afraid? It turned out that once after being drunk, the painter told Nicole about his life experience. The painter's ancestors were originally from a famous family, but everything was completely destroyed because of his father.Decades ago, the painter's father fell in love with a prostitute hopelessly. The two engaged in a private life, and the prostitute also said that he was pregnant with his father's child.No doubt the marriage was opposed by all.However, the painter's father did not give in and married a prostitute despite everything.The consequences can be imagined, the painter's grandfather not only did not recognize his daughter-in-law, but even his son drove out of the house together.Since then, father and son have turned against each other, and love and righteousness have been cut off.

Soon after the marriage, the painter's mother gave birth to him smoothly.The painter's father originally thought that his father would accept their family again for the sake of his grandson, but he never thought that his father's heart was as hard as iron.In order to support the family, the painter's father had to go out and find work.However, he ran into walls everywhere, and no one dared to use him.It turned out that in order to force the painter's father to bow his head and admit his mistake, the painter's grandfather greeted his friends in all industries and told them not to use his son.

The painter's father didn't expect his father to do such a great job. When he was depressed, he drank alcohol every day to relieve his worries.The painter's mother has been living a life of splendor and luxury by selling her body. She originally thought that she would live the life of a rich wife after marriage, but who would have thought that her life would not be as good as before.Seeing that her savings were about to run out, her child was waiting to be fed, and her husband spent all his time drinking away his worries, so she had to go back to her old job.Afterwards, it was a day of noisiness.In the end, the painter's father couldn't bear the poor life and ran away with others, because the painter's father knew that the painter was not his child, so he even abandoned the painter.In the eyes of the world's discrimination, the painter grew up day by day, and also learned to paint.But as time went by, the pain in the painter's heart did not heal, so he hated his mother, hated all prostitutes and women.So, he took revenge crazily, seduced women from rich families, fooled around with prostitutes, and killed many women who fell in love with him.

The painter's life experience is indeed sympathetic, but his behavior is even more heinous.Fearing reprisals from the painter, Nicole packed her bags to move as soon as she found a suitable house, and for several days she stayed at a friend's house.A few days later, Nicole found a new place to live.In the evening, she returned to the residence and planned to move.Not long after she entered the house, the painter followed and squeezed into her room.Nicole cried out in horror when he saw that it was a painter.The painter immediately covered her mouth and dragged her into the house.Soon after, the painter hurried away, while Nicole was strangled to death in his apartment.

Two days later, another prostitute died in the apartment.Her name was Arian Herbig, she was also strangled, and her apartment was ransacked. Suddenly two prostitutes died violently at home. Was all this done by the painter?There is still a reason to say that the painter strangled Nicole, so what about Arian's death? In the first case, police found the prostitute, Nicole Ursey, lying on the floor next to the bed, covered with a bath towel, at the scene.A dress was wrapped around her neck, drawn tightly and fastened with dead buttons.After careful examination, police determined that the woman had been smothered and then strangled, and that the dress was the murder weapon. Police suspect there is some connection between the two cases.So, inquiries were made to the clients and friends of the two prostitutes.Since Nicole sincerely planned to start a family with the painter and live a good life, she basically had no contact with other clients for a year, so no one knew anything about her.Later, in Nicole's apartment, the medical examiner found some fingerprints on a glass. Could the fingerprints have been left by the murderer? The police found more clues, and all the evidence showed that the apartment had been ransacked and the money was gone.At the crime scene of the second case, the police saw almost exactly the same situation as the first case.With one exception, no fingerprints were found at the scene.After investigation, police found that the fingerprints did not belong to any of the criminals on the list.The police could find no clues, and the murderer's trace remained elusive.Ultimately, the police had to drop their investigation. At the end of 1993, in the old city of Regensburg on the Danube, an 85-year-old woman named Hedi Kag died in her apartment and a large sum of money disappeared.The old woman was lying in the living room, her body twisted strangely.She was killed and raped.The fingerprints collected on-site are input into the computer system, and the computer system will compare millions of fingerprints within a few seconds. In May 1994, the police investigating Nicole's case received a call from the State Police.They said they had identified the mysterious fingerprint found at the scene of the first case, that of a 56-year-old unemployed painter from the city of Regensburg.The fingerprints found in the Nicholl and Hedi cases are identical. Was the murder 19 years ago and the murder 19 years later committed by the same person?If so, more people must have been killed during the period, and he didn't even let go of an 8-something-year-old woman. What kind of murderer is this? In order to find out the truth, the police quickly investigated the situation of the unemployed painter.He was detained by the police from December 1993 to January 1994, because the police suspected that he was related to the Hedi case in 1993. The exact same fingerprints were found in Nicole's apartment and Hedy's apartment.19 years after the murder of two prostitutes, police have rediscovered the clues to their case.A man named Hans Tangler was taken to the Munich police headquarters for interrogation.But the situation is not optimistic: because only one fingerprint can prove that Tangler has visited Nicole's apartment in Munich at least once. The police took a conscious approach to have some conversations with the suspect. They wanted to know whether he had relationships with prostitutes on weekdays, whether he often went to them, made friends with them, whether he had been to Munich, and had a relationship with prostitutes. Prostitutes there for dating.But throughout the conversation, the suspect avoided the question, telling police only that he had never been to Munich and had never dated a prostitute there. The officer knew Tangler was lying.But why would he lie?What is he trying to hide?The case has a new twist.At the police headquarters, Tangler was rigorously questioned by the police for several hours.Finally, they let Tangler watch the fingerprint found in the apartment of the prostitute Ursey... The criminal suspect Dangler confessed quickly under the abundant evidence and the powerful psychological attack of the police.He admitted that he was responsible for the first case, the one in which the mysterious fingerprints were found in the apartment of the prostitute Nicole.Since the death of another prostitute had many similarities with this case, the police logically inferred that the murderer in the two cases should be the same person, and Tangler also confessed to this.He said that the reason why he wanted to kill Arian was because she and Nicole were friends, and they had been living together for a few days, and he was afraid that Arian would also know about him.In fact, things were going as he expected. Nicole had already told Arian about the painter before the move, and said that if something happened to her, it must be the artist who did it, and Arian must tell everything about it. Policemen.However, before Ariane could say everything, Tangler shut her up forever. After admitting everything, Tangler also confessed that he had murdered an old woman in Regensburg.Since then, many of Tangler's confessions have been far beyond the police's expectations.He admitted that he had also killed Sarah Borg, 67.The police had never suspected him before.He carried out the robbery after he strangled Sarah Bogle to death.He had been terrified because he had sex with Sara and left semen behind.This is the third case Tangler has confessed to, and the fourth he has committed is the murder of an 85-year-old pensioner. Tangler eventually confessed to the murder of Hedi Kager.He had been detained by the police for the case, but investigators at the time had little clues to charge him.In this case, fiber analysis played a crucial role.Police removed some fibers from the suspect's undershirt and compared it adequately to fibers found on the victim's underwear.Ultimately, the police concluded that they were identical.Some experts in Regensburg think this evidence is not reliable, because normal contact between people can also cause clothing fibers to remain on others. Tangler was employed as a painter by two old women. Hedi Kager, 85, had lent him money totaling several thousand dollars.Later, Hedi pressed Tangler to pay back the money, which made Tangler so angry that when he walked into Hedi's apartment, he already planned to silence her forever. To the consternation of officers during the interrogation of Tangler, Tangler also admitted to murdering three other elderly women.Previously, these three cases have not been cracked.According to Tangler's testimony, the district attorney ordered the exhumation of what he said were three other bodies.The three corpses that were dug up were decomposed very badly, and two of them could not see any signs of being killed. Forensic experts could not find any useful evidence from them.However, on the body of one of the oldest women, forensic experts still found scars in the neck and hyoid area. Tangler admitted that he had killed seven people.But what is his intention in doing so?The killing of 85-year-old Hedi Kager was clearly motivated by sexual urges, but he was not a sex offender.What made this Danube devil? Police discussed and investigated two motives for the Danube Demon's killings.The first and most important motive is robbery, and the second is sexual assault.Police considered sexual assault as a motive, but investigations revealed that his main motive was robbery - sparked by a desperate desire for money. Because of his hatred for his mother, Tangler's personality was distorted, and he even became a murderous maniac.The reason why he learned to paint was to seduce women and meet more women.Dangler is keen on looking for women and going to bars in the city. His daily income is difficult to maintain such a luxurious life, so he needs more money.In the end, the Danube Killer still failed to escape the law, and Hans Tangler, who committed seven counts of murder, will spend the rest of his life in prison.