Crimes vampirism

Crimes vampirism
A little-known CASES

Several vampire killers appeared in the XIX century. The earliest known case shows a man named Zorgel, German, who met in the forest rights and drank all his blood, trying to heal itself from epilepsy. As a result, he was arrested and placed in a shelter for the mentally ill. In the same year, Antoine Leger killed a 12-year-old girl, drank her blood and ate her heart. Following the execution of the brain was investigated Zorgelya pathologists.

The most famous case involved a sergeant François Bertrand (1824-1849), who was arrested in 1849 in Paris, because tearing the graves and ate the flesh of corpses. While some called it vampire, his behavior was more typical of the vampire, and he became the prototype for one of the more successful novels about werewolves, including

Werewolf in London''.'' Pokalenie later in 1886 Henry Blot was arrested for a crime like Ms. He was caught because he had fallen into a hypnotic trance like sleep to complete their work. He was quickly arrested. Abused it only on the two bodies.

The United States has become home to a killer - a vampire, a sailor, James Brown. In 1967, Brown was discovered on board his vessel, fishing boat on the way to Labrador, where he drank the blood from the body of one crew member who was killed. He had already killed and drank the blood of another sailor. He was arrested and returned to Boston. Brown was sentenced to life in prison, where he killed at least two more people and drank their blood. After the second murder, he was sent to the National Psychiatric Hospital in Washington, DC, where he sat in a padded cell until death.
Fritz Haarmann (1879-1924) - another famous vampire killer. At the time of his arrest and execution in 1924 in Germany, he killed and ate more than 20 people. However, over the last few years he has also started to bite their victims and drinking their blood. At the same time as Haarmann acted Peter Kürten (1889-1931), also in Germany. First Kürten killed a boy of nine. Again, he committed the murder in 1913. Then in 1929 he began a series of vurdalakskih crime, during which he slew their victims, and then dismembered their bodies. At the time of the peak of his criminal riot in August of that year he killed nine people, mostly young women. His initial excitement at the time of the killing, is - is fixed at the blood. He began to drink the blood of their victims, continuing even when it already felt sick from drinking the blood. In one case, he bit off pieces of meat and drank the blood from the wound. Finally he was arrested in 1930 and executed the following year.

During the XX century, a number of reports on Vampiric crimes. Some, such as cases of John Dzhorsha Haig (1910-1949) and Richard Chase, became famous. Others were simply noted in passing. Haig acted in the 40 years outside his residence in London. There, he killed his victims, drank their blood, and then threw the body in a vat of sulfuric acid. Richard Chase (1950-1980) began his criminal orgy in Sacramento, Calif., in December 1977, when he shot the man. He continued this practice in the chain of killings in January before his arrest at the end of the month. It turned out that in 1974 he killed a cat and drank its blood. In subsequent years, he killed animals and drank their blood in the hope that he could improve his physical condition. After his arrest, he passed a complex legal process, including test for sanity. Convicted of many crimes, he was sentenced to death, but cheated his executioners and made samoobiystvo.