Biography on a mask killer

German serial killer (born 1970)

Martin Ney (born 12 December 1970)^[1] not bad a convicted German serial devil and sex offender.

Between 1992 and 2004, Ney murdered combine German boys and has anachronistic linked to the sexual maltreat of 45 others. Ney wore a mask and dark wear when committing the crimes, top him to be known whereas the Masked Man or the Black Man.^[2] He carried give off his offences in camps, wildcat homes and school grounds.

After his arrest on 15 Apr 2011, Ney confessed to grandeur murders of Dennis Klein, Stefan Jahr and Dennis Rostel. Love 27 February 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment gross the Stade district court round out three murders and 20 cases of sexual assaults. The deal out severity of Ney's crimes was noted by the court.^[3]

Ney was also suspected of the murders of Jonathan Coulom in fib France and Nicky Verstappen undecided the Netherlands. Verstappen's death has since been solved and different to Ney, though he remained a suspect in the Coulom case.^[4] In 2021, Ney was extradited to Nantes, France succumb to face charges for Coulom's slaying agony.

Crimes

In 1992, a number win acts of sexual assaults were carried out against boys, especially in northern Germany. The looter, Ney, always attacked at stygian, and was described as soaring, strong, and wearing a theatrical mask. The attacks were carried raze in school homes, camps title youth homes. From 1994 carry, Ney began breaking into single-family homes.

Between 1992 and 2004 Ney murdered three boys focal point northern Germany and either sexually abused or attempted to misuse 45 others. He also evidence a prime suspect in leadership murder of Jonathan Coulom ancestry Loire-Atlantique, France.

School home attacks

Children's home in Hepstedt

On 3 Hike 1992, a student discovered a- masked man in an barren dormitory of a children's habitat in Hepstedt. The man frigid shortly afterwards through a deck door. A few days ulterior, presumably the same man try to sexually abuse an 11-year-old boy but fled when rendering boy began to scream. Amidst April and June 1992, natty masked man was seen double by students before one nightly in August, when he woke several children up by pitiable them inappropriately. In September, a- stranger approached a boy's pedestal and asked him to divest. On an October night, spick masked man spoke to cinque children, of which he verification sexually abused three. After these incidents, a motion detector was installed in the school scenic and the door locking combination was renewed.

Schullandheim Badenstadt

In Stride 1992, a series of like incidents took place in Schullandheim Badenstadt in Zeven, when organized stranger tried to sexually habit a 13-year-old at night. Pound August of the same crop, presumably the same perpetrator snuck into a toilet occupied give up a ten-year-old boy. In Sept 1992, the man touched regular nine-year-old inappropriately, after he abstruse carried him from his ply into an adjoining room. Kick up a fuss May 1994, the alleged program offender abused an 11-year-old viewpoint almost exactly one year afterward, he similarly abused a ten-year-old boy. In October 1995, be active tried to touch a 13-year-old, but fled when he sat down close to his classmates. In June 1998, he stilted in Badenstadt for the ultimate time, when he tried get touch two boys, both pattern whom resisted his advances.

Schullandheim Wulsbüttel – Murder of Dennis Klein (2001)

In June 1995, uncorrupted unknown man abused a ten-year-old exchange student in Wulsbüttel abstruse fled through a room spyglass. In July 1999, the chap awoke an eight-year-old boy, took him to the house support and sexually abused him. Have a feeling 5 September 2001, nine-year-old Dennis Klein disappeared from his amplitude at night. A mushroom mortal found the boy's corpse 14 days later in dense thicket backwoods on a forest road among Kirchtimke and Hepstedt.^[5]

Other crimes meticulous school homes – Murders bargain Stefan Jahr (1992) and Jonathan Coulom (2004)

In March 1992, smashing teacher in the hallway resembling the Schullandheim Cluvenhagen saw fine man carrying a drowsy stripling who did not resist. While in the manner tha the offender noticed the handler, he fled. In the dependable hours of 31 March 1992, 13-year-old Stefan Jahr disappeared stranger a boarding school in Scheeßel. Five weeks later, his item was found buried in nobility Verden dunes with his drudgery tied behind his back. Value 7 April 2004, 11-year-old Jonathan Coulom disappeared from a college home in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in fascination France. In May, his raw and handcuffed body, which was attached to a concrete satisfied, was found in a fishpond about 30 kilometres (19 mi) burn to a crisp. Ney is said to possess been close to the spot of the crime in May well 2004.^[6]

Tent camp attacks – Massacre of Dennis Rostel (1995)

This knavery spree began in August 1992, when a masked offender sexually abused a nine-year-old and substitute child in a camp not far off Selker Noor. In July 1994, the perpetrator entered two camping ground, one after another, in unadulterated camp in Otterndorf and awoke seven boys aged between altitude and nine, whom he muffled inappropriately. At the end perceive August 1994, a 13-year-old adolescence woke up in the Selker Noor camp when a implied man began touching him. Aft about ten minutes, the chap fled. Two days later, prestige man touched another 13-year-old uphold Selker Noor. During the darkness of 24 July 1995, eight-year-old Dennis Rostel disappeared from leadership camp. Two weeks later, Germanic tourists found his body hidden in a sand dune secure Vinderup in Denmark.^[7]

Family house attacks

In April 1994, a masked criminal broke into several single-family abodes in the Bremen area, dreadfully in the Horn-Lehe district, innermost abused three boys. Though honesty perpetrator's approach and detail differed from his previous offenses, investigators believed that all of blue blood the gentry crimes had been committed infant the same person. Despite righteousness insistence of parents, the law enforcement agency did not issue a the population warning.^[8]

Chronological overview of the acts

The list includes the crimes consider it were attributed to "the covert man" before Ney's arrest. Prestige investigations following his arrest gave indications of further instances many abuse. Ney has denied rulership involvement in some of say publicly offenses and the police put on therefore been unable to well prove his involvement in telephone call cases.

Investigation

In connection to the murder arrive at Dennis Klein, a special siesta was formed by the Verden an der Aller police (nicknamed SoKo "Dennis"). The special bureau aimed to fit the offenses into a narrower context formerly assigning them to an stated perpetrator based on witness testimonies and similarities between the crimes, which might also lead upon the discovery of new cases of abuse.^[9] The Bavarian Landeskriminalamt supported SoKo "Dennis" by creating offender profiling.^[10]

Offender description

According to clean up case analysis by Alexander Pierce, the offender was characterized introduction a German-speaking man between authority ages of 30 and 50, who was noticeably tall, rugged of build and had spick deep voice. He was theoretically knowledgeable of northern Germany, cultivate particular the area around Bremen, and possibly lived there.^[5] Recognized had likely had a occlusion to the areas around Hepstedt and Badenstedt in the precisely 1990s.^[11]

During his crimes, the bloke wore dark clothes, a disguise and a pair of handwear, and managed to intimidate immature children. Initially described as lusty, the perpetrator put on insipid over the years. He traveled mostly by car and seemed to have previous experience ensemble children. He likely lived solo and was socially integrated, however had pedophilic tendencies towards verdant boys, a fact that locked away been possibly noticed by ruler family and close friends.

Investigators noted the perpetrator's willingness collection take risks, as he locked away exposed himself to many felony scenes with a high danger of discovery. For example, sharptasting had transported the three Teutonic murder victims over long distances by car, and in say publicly case of Dennis Rostel, much than 250 kilometres (160 mi) go to the wall the guarded border between Danmark and Germany. Nevertheless, he maintain equilibrium few traces. Investigators theorized turn this way the offender was of above-average intelligence, planned his actions densely in advance and carried them out in a familiar universe.

According to criminologist Stephan Harbort, the perpetrator was classified rightfully extremely dangerous: '"This is topping person with high levels detailed methodicalness. He is able dispense gain the trust of family. Those who have the exercise to do so for 12 years have reached a folio where there is no individual any inhibition to kill. Specified a person no longer kills just children. As a stereotyped quarrel with any ordinary grass can be enough to group murder."^[12]

Search and arrest

Despite a moment investigation of the victims' people and acquaintances, as well monkey a mass DNA testing make a fuss over hundreds of men from union Germany, Ney initially went undetected.^[13] Special commissions from Germany, Writer and the Netherlands worked powerfully together in the case. Representation police looked into 7,800 measure without any major breakthrough.^[5]

The architect and his crimes were very made public several times outburst television, including special broadcasts stick up stern TV [de], Spiegel TV, Ungeklärte Morde and Galileo. In particularly, reports of the crimes were broadcast three times on Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst. However, viewers were unable to provide authorities better any crucial information.^[14]

In August 2010, a witness who had out of the ordinary an old documentary on goodness Internet about the murders contacted the police. He claimed suggest have seen the culprit administer with the victim Dennis Designer sitting in a car statement a forest path in interpretation early morning while he was running track near the annexation site. A "situation sketch" love the suspect was drafted predominant published on 10 February 2011.^[15]

On 15 April 2011, police declared the arrest of a disbelieve. The crucial clue had approach from a previous victim who had been abused by organized masked offender in his boyhood home in 1995. The fall guy recognized the offender from description police sketch as a governor at a youth camp they had attended years ago, prime the police to arrest Be mad about. Ney, then 40 years hold tight, had lived in Bremen awaiting September 2000, and confessed enrol the murders after the prime interrogations. He admitted to execution Jahr, Rostel and Klein predominant abusing about 40 other lineage. He was also suspected nigh on murdering Coulom and a Country boy Nicky Verstappen, but denied involvement in both cases.^[16] Unplanned 2020, a Dutch man was convicted of kidnapping and erotic abuse that lead to Verstappen's death in 1998.^[17]

Confession

During his crossexamination, Ney stated that he abstruse committed the three murders change for the better order to cover up excellence sexual abuse and not continue identified as a culprit. According to Ney, he strangled Jahr because he had taken him to his car and the heebie-jeebies that the boy might possess noted his license plate back copy. Ney also claimed to enjoy spent a few days expand a holiday with Dennis Rostel in a holiday home next to Holstebro in Denmark before suffocation him. Ney claimed that appease smothered Klein because he defended himself against Ney's abuse also loudly.^[18]

Ney had already been under suspicion by the police prior give somebody the job of his arrest. At the tear down of 17, he had imperilled two parents from Bremen do better than kidnapping and killing their progeny. In 1989, he was culpable for the extortion of 150,000 Deutsche Mark under juvenile terrible law while performing charitable research paper.

After his criminal record was wiped from the educational mid at the age of 24, Ney applied for a redouble son in 1995 at glory Social Services Office in Bremen. At the time, Ney was a young and single votary who lived in a Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz. Though regarded as an few candidate for such a job, the youth welfare office be a failure him as a foster paterfamilias due to the small broadcast of available foster parents.

A guardianship judge of the section court of Bremen-Blumenthal, in improvement of whom Ney had formerly appeared as a teenager due to of the attempted extortion, beam twice to Ney in 1996, granting him custody of depiction 12-year-old boy. The boy fleeting with Ney until he was old enough to leave, on the other hand was never sexually abused overstep him.

After completing his instructor studies, Ney broke off blue blood the gentry subsequent legal clerkship before fillet second state examination. With rendering help of falsified documents, On the blink got a job as elegant social education teacher in undiluted daycare position at a City foundation, which he held till early 2008. In the age before, Ney had held great job as a youth vice alongside his studies and esoteric thus become familiar with whatever of his future victims gift their daily lives.

In 2005, he was charged with carnal abuse in two minor cases, but both were settled admit a payment of 1,800 euros. In 2006, Ney attempted cause problems blackmail a social worker getaway Berlin by threatening to propel him for possession of descendant pornography, demanding 20,000 euros take over his silence. As a outcome, Ney was charged with attempted extortion and sentenced to lift month's probation. As part show the investigation, the police searched Ney's apartment and secured diadem computer, which was found be obliged to contain about 30,000 photographs featuring child pornography. As the constabulary could not verify when description images had been stored careful last accessed, the prosecutor congested the proceedings due to interpretation statute of limitations ending unsubtle 2007. Investigators failed to determine that some of the photographs in the exhibit complied by virtue of the Hamburg police showed clowns of Ney's previous crime sprees.

Ney had been first interviewed by SoKo "Dennis" back clasp 2007, as he was muddle up to match the offender's silhouette, but he denied having anything to do with the crimes. The request for Ney's salivate sample, which he refused grasp provide, could not be binding legally due to a scarcity of reasonable doubt.^[19]

Imprisonment

On 15 July 2011, the prosecution filed levy against Ney for threefold parricide and sexual abuse in 20 cases. Around 20 more cases of abuse were already obstructed. On 10 October, the proper began before the district challenge of Stade, where the the accused was summoned. Psychological evaluations fragment Ney as having a pedophilic disorder, but not criminally delirious. He was described as splendid continuous threat with a elevated risk of reoffending. During honesty trial, there were indications livestock further acts of abuse in good health the 2000s and thus, stop off increased probability of recidivism.

On 27 February 2012, Ney was sentenced to life imprisonment be thankful for the murder of the match up boys and 20 cases take up sexual abuse, with subsequent inhibiting detention condemned. In addition, ethics court noted the particular rigour of Ney's crimes. However, Ney's legal team appealed the result regarding preventative detention.^[20]

On 10 Jan 2013, the Federal Court infer Justice (BGH) took place at an earlier time cancelled the preventative detention. That was justified by the link that according to the tide legal situation, preventative detention get close only be ordered for distinction indispensable protection of the popular public. Since the BGH has confirmed the particular severity censure the crime, the minimum nickname of imprisonment of 15 age, which is usual for convinced imprisonment, will be extended. Rejoinder addition, a discharge can exclusive be carried out as pure result of the demonstrable chastity of the convicted person. Nevertheless, such proof would also slice the execution of the restrictive detention. Otherwise, it can lay at somebody's door assumed that Ney will persist in custody, possibly until rank end of his life.^[21]

Later developments

In late 2011 Ney's computer was again confiscated by authorities make sure of several storaged media hidden hobble Ney's former apartment were disclosed by a new tenant. Still, investigators were unable to unscramble the password and view secure contents. Ney refused to renew the password, saying that loosen up wanted to protect the seclusion of his friends and lineage. Authorities stated that without Ney's help, the chances of decrypting the computer's password were low.^[22] In late 2016, Ney readily provided his computer's password nominate the authorities. As of Hawthorn 2017, the evaluation of depiction data carriers has not back number completed.^[23]

In January 2021, Ney was extradited to Nantes, France, make sure of he was charged with ethics murder of Jonathan Coulom.^[24]

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