“Revenge mom” shot her child’s murder in the middle of his trial

On May 5, 1980, Marianne Bachmeier’s life was forever changed. In the ’80’s, Marianne was a struggling single mom who ran a pub in Lübeck, northern Germany.

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Marianne’s own youth was marked by misery and several traumas. Her father had been a member of the Waffen-SS, one of the most infamous organizations in Nazi Germany.

Growing up, she had been raped several times by different men. At just 16 years old, Marianne fell pregnant. As a teenager, she couldn’t raise the baby alone and decided to give the infant up for adoption. When she was 18, Marianne became pregnant a second time – and once again left her baby to an adoption agency.

In 1973, Marianne gave birth to a third child, her daughter, Anna. Marianne was still a single mom, but raised Anna on her own.

According to sources, Anna was a “happy, open-minded child”, but unfortunately she and her family would soon suffer a terrible event.

In May, 1980, Anna and Marianne had an argument. The little girl decided to skip school and walked to a friend’s house instead. On her way there, though, Anna was kidnapped by 35-year-old Klaus Grabowski, a local butcher.

Grabowski kept Anna trapped in his apartment for hours, and abused the little girl before finally strangling her to death. After murdering Anna, the perpetrator packed her body into a box, which he stored in a hidden place on the bank of a canal.

Grabowski later returned to the location to bury the body of his victim, only to be arrested that same evening at his favorite pub in Lübeck after his fiancé turned him in to the police.

At the time, Grabowski was already a convicted sex offender who had previously been behind bars for sexual assaults on two girls.

During his stay in prison in 1976, he was voluntarily castrated. Two years later, he began hormone treatment to reverse the chemical castration so that he could have a love life with his fiancé.

Grabowski immediately confessed to Anna’s murder but denied having sexually abused the girl. During his trial, Grabowski went even further and claimed that Anna had tried to seduce and extort him.

In fact, Grabowski blamed his murder victim for his shameful act. He claimed that he only killed the little girl because she wanted to blackmail him. According to Grabowski, Anna threatened him and said that she wanted money – otherwise she would tell her mother that Grabowski had touched her in an inappropriate way.

The court didn’t believe Grabowski’s explanation.