May 24, 1969 - Frank Gust
His crimes in the Rhine-Ruhr region during the 1990s reflected a pattern of escalating violence that investigators traced back to compulsive behavior documented since childhood. The media comparison to Jack the Ripper points less to copycat motivation than to the nature of the attacks themselves and the forensic profile they produced. Over four years, four women were killed — a span during which the case accumulated enough evidence to eventually bring charges, and enough detail to mark Gust as one of the more thoroughly documented sexual sadists in modern German criminal history.
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Frank Gust (born 24 May 1969) is a German serial killer. He has been dubbed The Rhine-Ruhr Ripper by the media because his actions, mainly committed in the Rhine-Ruhr region in western Germany, share similarities with London's Jack the Ripper murders.
Gust is classified as a sexual sadist. At a very young age, he showed a tendency to abuse animals, experiencing sexual arousal when torturing, killing, and gutting animals. At age 13 he began breaking into morgues to act on his necrophiliac inclinations. After he was arrested, Gust stated that his greatest desire was to touch the beating heart of a dying woman.
Between 1994 and 1998 Gust killed four women. His first victim was a 28-year-old hitchhiker from South Africa who lived in the Netherlands and was on a European trip.
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