ht Kurten broke in to the above apartment with the attempt to steal. Seeing nothing of interest, he came upon the girl asleep in her bed. After strangling her to unconsciousness he molested her, and then he slit her throat watching the blood stream out. He would later say he "derived sexual pleasure from watching the blood flow" (Chitolie, 1997). Although dropping his embroidered handkerchief with the initials PK at the scene of the crime, blame was cast on the young girl's uncle. The next day Kurten returned to the scene, stopping at a café next door for a beer. Listening to the talk about the murder he later commented "all the horror and indignation did him good" (Gilbert, 1999). (It should be noted her that later at his trial Kurten would confess to the earlier killings of three other individuals. Two were his childhood friends that he confessed to drowning at the young age of 5. Another occurred around the age of 17. As he was having intercourse with a young woman in the woods he attempted to experiment with strangulation. Since no body was ever found, it is assumed she survived). During this year of 1913, he also attacked two other individuals with an ax, both dying from their wounds.
             From 1913 to 1921 he spent in prison and began to blame society for his life predicaments. He also began to fantasize about committing..."brutal sexual acts. He
             became so obsessed with these fantasies that he deliberately broke minor prison rules so that he could be sentenced to solitary confinement" (Gilbert, 1999). Soon the two combined and he began to fantasize
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