Worker Heinrich Pommerenke was sentenced to six life sentences in October 1960. The small industrial town of Hornberg achieved tragic fame in 1960 with the terrible murders.
“Laden with excessive guilt” – that was the headline in the Black Forest Bote on Monday, October 24, 1960, exactly two days after the Freiburg district court sentenced Heinrich Pommerenke from Bentwisch near Rostock in Mecklenburg to a total of six life sentences. His list of crimes is long. Of the 28 crimes for which the court found the then 23-year-old responsible, four were brutal murders of young women. The public has clamored for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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