As promised to @ripx4nutmeg, July will feature a trans killer a day #tkad for as long as I can stay unjannied for it. The first one is a doozy.
Wolfgang 'Beate' Schmidt 🧵
In May 1990, Christa Najoks was raped and killed, and her body left in a junkyard near Brandenburg.
The police found ladies' underwear at the scene, but it wasn't Najoks'. A #transgenocide had begun.
The murder remained unsolved in March 1991, when Inge Borkheide's body was found stabbed, raped, and shat upon in the Neuendorf woodlands.
Horrifying. But worse was to come.
Later that month, a 44yo woman called Tamara was strangled to death and gagged with a bra. The body of her 3-month-old son lay nearby. His head had been smashed against a tree.
It was clear there was a monster on the loose, and it was getting bolder.
Sure enough, the next attack happened more quickly. Within a fortnight two schoolgirls were attacked with a knife near Ludwigsfeld.
Crucially, both escaped and were able to give a description to the police. It was Schmidt.
But while police were taking the evidence...
...Schmidt broke into a nearby house, strangled the 66 year old woman inside and raped her corpse.
He went to ground when the police released his photocomposite.
But had been a cross-dresser since childhood, and fortunately the perversion would soon become his own undoing.
Two men out for an evening run in August saw a man jerking off and wearing a bra. Recognising him from the police sketch, they bravely tackled him and held him until police arrived. Pride was over.
Schmidt was charged with the sex attacks and murders above, *and* with one more.
At Schmidt's trial, his background was reviewed as part of a psych assessment.
He claimed he had wanted to be a girl since age 3. By 6 he was wearing his mother's clothes for gratification, which he said increased when he shat in them.
His parents discovered the 8yo Schmidt...
...jerking off in his mother's underwear and smeared with his own shit.
His degeneracy continued into adolescence, and he habitually wore women's clothing underneath his own.
By 23 he wanted more, and this led to the other murder he was charged with.
51yo Edeltraut Nixdorf discovered the 23yo Schmidt with her swimwear and underwear, and her candles (Schmidt frequently put these up his arse)
He beat and choked her to death.
Her grief-stricken widower, until then the prime suspect, committed suicide before Schmidt was caught.
Sentenced to 15 years in jail and secure hospital, Schmidt suffered conviction-onset gender dysphoria, asking to be called Beate.
In 2009 Schmidt began hormone treatments.
In 2010 he was accused of raping another inmate, who is also trans and is also a rapist.
Known as the "Pink Giant" or the "Beast of Beelitz", Wolfgang/Beate Schmidt is detained in a secure psych institution indefinitely. He is one of Germany's most despicable serial sex attacker's and murderers.
His reign of terror is over. But there are more like him out there.
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In November 1957 a 51yo male was arrested by police investigating the disappearance of shopkeeper Bernice Worden. What police found in subsequent searches was beyond nightmares. Today’s #tkad trans killer a day is the Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein.
Edward Theodore Gein was a bright Wisconsin farm kid, but he had a drunk father and overbearing mother. Augusta Gein (picrel) made Ed dress as a girl. Ed’s father’s drinking did him in by 1942, and his brother died soon after in suspicious circumstances, but Ed was not suspected.
Gein’s mother died soon after in 1945 and, despite her mistreatment of Ed, he was bereft. He struggled by on the farm and did odd jobs from day to day. Twelve years later, though, the world found out what he did at night.