Gerd Wenzinger

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17known / alleged victims (0 -17 +)

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Case Facts

Gender: male
Country: Brazil / Germany
Location: Brazil / Germany
Date of birth: 1943
Age at first offence: 48
Characteristics: abuse, mentally ill, torture, fugitive
Victim profile: Women (prostitutes)
Method of murder: St abbing with knife
Date(s) of murder: 1991 - 1996
Years active: 1991–1996
Date of arrest: —
Status: Died in custody
Committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell in Brazil on June 16, 1987, after a court approved his extradition back to Germany; on June 12 Brazil's Supreme Court approved his extradition; he died by hanging four days later

Case Summary

Case record: Gerd Wenzinger

Gerd Wenzinger was a German torture doctor accused of murdering and torturing up to 19 women in Brazil and Germany.

He was 53 years old.

Wenzinger was accused of killing 13 women in Germany and four more in Brazil.

Wenzinger first attempted to kill himself after learning that German police had found a videotape showing him cutting a woman into small pieces.

Wenzinger was in a jail cell in Brazil.

On June 12, Brazil's Supreme Court approved his extradition back to Germany.

Wenzinger committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell in Brazil on June 16, 1987, after a court approved his extradition back to Germany.

His death by hanging occurred four days after the June 12 extradition approval.

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