October 5, 1966 - Wolfgang Schmidt
Operating across rural Brandenburg over a span of roughly two years, Schmidt carried out a series of attacks that left six people dead and four others injured, with the crimes remaining unsolved long enough for the perpetrator to acquire multiple press nicknames. The case unfolded in the early post-reunification period, when jurisdictional and investigative structures in the former East Germany were still being reorganized — a context that shaped how the crimes were tracked and ultimately attributed.
From Wikipedia
Beate Schmidt (born Wolfgang Schmidt; 5 October 1966) is a German serial killer and rapist, who killed six people and injured four between 1989 and 1991 in various villages in Brandenburg.
The then-unidentified killer was nicknamed the "Pink Giant" (German: Rosa Riese), from witness descriptions of Schmidt, who stood 190 cm (6 ft 3 in), and the presence of discarded pink lingerie at some of the crime scenes. As the murders and rapes occurred close to Beelitz, Schmidt was also named the "Beast of Beelitz" (Bestie von Beelitz) and "Beelitz murderer" (Beelitz-Mörder) by the tabloid newspapers Superillu and Bild.
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