Peter Kürten, aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf or the “Düsseldorf Monster,” was a German serial killer who operated in the city of Düsseldorf. Along with taking the lives of people, he even used to ...

The doomed man had a question for the prison headshrinker: “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off will I still be able to hear; at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the ...

A SERIAL killer known as the “The Dusseldorf Vampire” mercilessly slaughtered nine victims and tried to drink their blood. Peter Kurten began his killing spree at the age of nine after a disturbing ...

After 16 months of strenuous detective work by some of Germany’s greatest criminologists, one Peter Kuerten, 47, was arrested last week, charged with being the famed “Düsseldorf Vampire” (TIME, Jan.

The Zodiac, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Aileen Wuornos, Richard Ramirez, Son of Sam — many serial killers have become (admittedly morbid) household names, notorious for the crimes they’ve committed.

Before 1970s serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy there was Peter Kurten. While we think of such men as a post-World War II phenomenon, they have always been around. But until ...

The killer's dissected head is on display in a museum after he was executed by guillotine for his crimes A SERIAL killer known as the “The Dusseldorf Vampire” mercilessly slaughtered nine victims and ...