November 6, 1946 - Jürgen Bartsch
Between 1962 and 1966, Bartsch lured young boys into an abandoned mine shaft near Langenberg, where he carried out a series of killings that shocked West Germany and forced a reckoning with how the justice system understood the relationship between childhood trauma and violent crime. His case became a landmark not only for its brutality but for the legal precedent it set, with the court's formal consideration of his psychosocial background — including years of institutional and domestic violence — marking a shift in how German courts approached criminal sentencing.
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Jürgen Bartsch (born Karl-Heinz Sadrozinski; 6 November 1946 – 28 April 1976) was a West German serial killer and sex offender who murdered four boys aged between 8 and 13 and attempted to kill a fifteen-year-old boy. His conviction was the first in German history to include the psycho-social background of the defendant, who grew up in a violent environment, to set down the sentence.
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