The author reconstructs a notorious series of murders in Hanover through court documents, eyewitness accounts, and forensic observation, situating the crimes within postwar social disintegration and urban decay. The narrative details investigative and judicial procedures, probes the perpetrator's psychological abnormalities and pathological behaviors, and connects individual pathology to broader cultural, legal, and psychiatric questions, offering both case history and time critique while arguing for clarity in the public record and lessons for criminology and social medicine.