Berlin – Police officials in Germany said on Thursday that hundreds of murder cases dating back to the 1970s have been reopened in Germany.
According to the report, the cases were reopened after a woman discovered a chopped-up corpse among the belongings of her deceased 67-year-old father in a central German town.
“The daughter of Manfred S discovered the dismembered body of a prostitute in her hometown of Schwalbach am Taunus after her father died in 2014.
“This gave police reason to suspect him in similar murders committed in the region,’’ the Police Chief, Sabine Thurau said.
She added that 10 murders have been linked to the man thus far, six of them by concrete evidence and four others by similarities in the way the victims were tortured and killed, including the removal of organs.
The cases that have been reopened since 2014 include the murder of two women in Frankfurt in the 1970s.
Also, the murder of two prostitutes in the early 1990s and the sadistic killing of a 13-year-old boy named Tristan in 1998.
Police also reopened two missing persons cases and another that saw the heads of two women discovered in Frankfurt all dating back to the 90s but there is currently no evidence to suggest Manfred S committed these acts.
The Police spokesman, Frank Hermann said that Manfred S may have had an accomplice.
The corpse found among his belongings “causes us to consider the possibility that it was two offenders who were acting out their fantasies,” Hermann said.
Manfred S, whose name was withheld due to German privacy laws, has been dubbed by local media as Germany’s Jack the Ripper.
He was an unidentified serial killer believed to have killed a series of prostitutes in impoverished areas of East London in 1888. (dpa/NAN)