Marianne Bachmeier: noble avenger or treacherous killer? (9 photos)

Revenge... Is it noble? In this woman's story, a dish intended to be served cold looks exactly like this.





Marianne Bachmeier was born in 1950 in Germany in the family of a former military man. The girl’s childhood could not be called happy: her father loved to drink, despite his fanatical piety. After the divorce, my mother married a man who was devoid of excessive sentimentality. Scandals regularly occurred in the family.



Marianna Bachmeier

At the age of 16, Marianne was kicked out of home. In search of care and warmth, she reached out to the guy. But he, having learned about the pregnancy of his young friend, disappeared in an unknown direction. The baby had to be given up for adoption. The same thing happened with the second child. But the third attempt to arrange her personal life, as it seemed to the young woman, turned out to be successful.

She briefly dated Christian Bertoldo. As a result of this relationship, Anna was born in 1972. The last child in Marianne’s life (complications after childbirth did not allow her to become a mother again).

Hopes were not justified this time either. Christian was not ready to become a father and, like his predecessors, disappeared into the fog of existence. However, the woman had a stable job, and she did not lose heart, raising her little daughter alone.

Tragedy



Anna

At the beginning of May 1980, Anna went to school. But the girl did not return home. The mother checked her friends and went around to all the neighbors. Nobody saw the schoolgirl. Marianna ran to the police. The investigation turned out to be quick: neighbor Klaus Grabowski dealt with the child. A 35-year-old man strangled a girl. She was abused before her death.

The butcher lured the child under the pretext of helping him catch the cat. A few hours later he took the dead body to the bank of the canal. It is unclear what motivated Klaus, but on the same day he blabbed about what he had done to his fiancee. She was horrified and immediately contacted the police.

At the trial, Klaus denied the fact of violence (but the evidence showed the opposite) and even insisted that the neighbor herself tried to seduce him (at the age of 7).



Klaus Grabowski

The police themselves were partly to blame for the tragedy. The fact is that the man had already served a prison sentence for sexual abuse of minors. The criminal was released under the condition of chemical castration. He was to be under police surveillance. But no one ever came to check on Grabowski. And he calmly went to the doctor, adjusted the therapy, started taking testosterone and restored erectile function. Plus, in the biography of the criminal, there was another case of attack on a 6-year-old girl.

The trial and its results



Having learned about the details, Marianne was horrified. She was no less horrified at the hearing, when she listened to the defense’s explanations about the moral suffering of the killer and the hormonal imbalance that pushed the man to commit the crime.

Lawyers focused on the neglect of the child and the fact that the woman gave up her two older children for adoption. At the third meeting on March 6, 1981, she came not alone, but with a Beretta 70. And she unloaded a pistol on Klaus, who once again began to grimace and accuse the deceased child of depraved behavior.



Murder scene

She offered no resistance during arrest. And she only repeated that she regretted that she had to shoot in the back, and not in the grinning face. A year and a half later, the woman was tried on charges of premeditated murder. But the life sentence was revised and commuted taking into account the circumstances and public outcry.



Marianna served three of the six years, got married, divorced and moved to Sicily. In Palermo, she went to work in a hospice, where the woman was called Joy - with such quiet joy she managed to brighten up the last days of doomed people.



Still from the film "Anna's Mother"

She spoke publicly about her misfortune only twice - on the radio and on TV. The story was filmed twice, dedicating the films “Anna’s Mother” and “The Bachmeier Case” to it.This is not the time for tears." The woman died quite early, at the age of 46, from cancer and found her final refuge next to her daughter.