July 1, 1959 - Volker Eckert
A long-haul truck driver whose profession gave him mobility across multiple European countries over more than three decades, Eckert used that freedom to carry out killings that went undetected for years. His victims were overwhelmingly women in vulnerable circumstances, and the full scope of his crimes remains uncertain — his suicide the day after his birthday cut short proceedings that might have clarified cases still open in Italy, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere.
From Wikipedia
Volker Eckert (1 July 1959 – 2 July 2007) was a German serial killer, who killed at least six women in East Germany, France and Spain, between 1974 and 2006. Eckert confessed to only six murders, five of whom were sex workers, but is believed to have killed at least nine women, and is also accused of committing additional murders of women in several European countries including Italy and the Czech Republic, but investigations were closed after Eckert committed suicide during his criminal proceedings on 2 July 2007.
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