Friedrich Heinrich Karl Harrmann (Fritz (Haarmann)

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann, also known as “Fritz” Haarmann was a 45 year old homosexual butcher with a Charlie Chaplin mustache and the voice of a woman. Fritz was born on October 25, 1879 in Hanover; The capital and largest city of northwestern Germany. Harrmann was born the sixth, and last, child to Johanna and Ollie Harrmann. Fritz and his father were always hostile towards one another, but Fritz’s mother who was bedridden after giving birth to Fritz, absolutely adored him. She would even go along with any of his predilections. Such as playing with dolls or even dressing up in his sister’s clothing. At the age of 16, with the urging of both his mother and father, Fritz decides to enroll in a military academy. He adapted to the military
Fritz began to develop a relationship with the police of Hanover as an informer. He used this to redirect the attention of the police for anything but himself. Later admitting that the police began to view him as a reliable source of information regarding Hanover's criminal network. In 1914, as the First World War began, Harrmann was convicted with a series of thefts and frauds, then was imprisoned. In 1918 upon Harrmann’s release, he was struck by the poverty of the German Nation as a result of the loss the nation had suffered in the Great War. Germany was bankrupt, and Fritz immediately went back to the criminal life he had lived before he was arrested in 1914. From 1918 to 1924, Fritz Haarmann committed 24 murders, although he is suspected of murdering a minimum of 27 . The victims consisted of young male commuters, runaways and occasionally, male prostitutes, whom he would typically encounter by the railway station. All of his murders were males between the age of 10-22. Fritz’s first known victim was 17- year old youth runaway named Friedel Rothe. Rothe disappeared on September 27,
Harrmann had also been connected to the disappearances of Friedel Rothe and a 14-year-old named Hermann Koch. Harrmann was placed under surveillance on June 18, 1924. On the night of June 22, Harrmann was observed by two undercover cops. Hannover was soon observed arguing with a 15-year-old boy named Karl Fromm, then to approach police and insist they arrest the youth on the charge of travelling with forged documents. Upon his arrest, Fromm informed police he had been living with Haarmann for four days, and that he had been repeatedly raped by his accuser, sometimes as a knife had been held to his throat. Haarmann was arrested the following morning and charged with sexual assault. Following Harrmann’s arrest, his apartment was raided once again. The clothes and personal possessions found at Haarmann's apartment and in the possession of his acquaintances were suspected as being the property of missing