27. The German Necrophiliac
West German police began receiving reports in 1971 that somebody was digging up bodies from graves, and gnawing on them, with the female corpses sexually abused as well. In May of 1972, a morgue attendant came across somebody kissing a cadaver, who shot at the attendant but missed. Police threw a dragnet, that eventually caught Kuno Hofman, a deaf and mute laborer who had lost the powers of speech and hearing after his alcoholic father beat him in childhood.
Hofman had a rap sheet, including nine years in prison for theft. When the cops interrogated him, he readily confessed to a bizarre crime spree that originated in Hoffman’s efforts at self-improvement via occult “sciences”. He read extensively on satanic rituals, witchcraft, dark magic, and especially on vampirism and necrophilia. Those readings convinced Hoffman that he could become handsome and popular by performing dark magic rituals with corpses. Hence, the grave robbing.
