Her name, Marianne Bachmeier. Her life, a kind of difficulties, with an upbringing that left emotional scars and several motherhoods that could not be, until her daughter Anna arrived.
The woman, who one day ended the life of the rapist and murderer of her 7-year-old girl, was born in Sarstedt (1950), into a very dysfunctional German family. By then, the Nazi threat was part of a recent and disturbing past.
However, Marianne’s father was a member of the National Socialist Party and part of the Protection Squads, linked to Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand man.
Over the years, this distanced her from her father, once they settled in Lübeck (northern Germany). Her vital history also has to do with a mother absent from her, emotionally speaking of her.
All of the above had consequences. When she was 16 years old, the young woman became pregnant by her boyfriend, who, upon hearing the news, fled without a trace. Her parents forced her to give the child up for adoption.
It wouldn’t be long before she confessed a new pregnancy to them again, in circumstances similar to the first. Her second son also went to a foster home by order of her parents.
In 1973, the young woman who still lived with her parents (at 23 years old) became pregnant for the third time. It seemed that, after her third birth, the baby would suffer the same fate as her other two brothers. But, this time, Marianne revealed herself and went to have what would be her daughter Anna from her.
Seven years later, a sexual predator would steal the happiness they both built, after a stormy past.
Marianne Bachmeier: the mother who lost her daughter in the blink of an eye
That of Marianne Bachmeier is a shocking story, published by various international media such as Time from Colombia and Tradefrom Peru.
In it, it is related that one morning in Lübeck, when Marianne tried to make her 7-year-old daughter Anna go to school, the girl flatly refused. She told him that all she wanted was to play in the park.
Mother and daughter had a quiet life. The woman was dedicated to her little girl, willing to give her the life that she could not have in her childhood.
Marianne let the youngest go to play with other children. However, Anna’s plan was to visit the home of a local butcher, a close neighbor identified as Klaus Grabowski.
The subject had told him that if he went to visit him, he would allow him to play with his cats. When the girl arrived, he locked her in her house. He raped her, according to reports at the time, on several occasions. In order to leave no trace of her, he strangled her and planned to take her body to a nearby tributary.
It was not the first time he had committed a vile act. Grabowski, who now lived on the German federal side, was convicted of the rape and murder of 2 girls in 1976. He was reportedly subjected to chemical castration, but reports from the time claim that he recovered on a hormonal diet, something that is not confirmed.
When the subject regained his freedom, due to unexplained circumstances, beyond the bad judicial decision, he settled with a girlfriend and started a butcher shop.
On May 5, 1980, he committed a new harass, targeting Anna. Guilt invaded him at some point and he confessed to his partner what he did. Thereupon, confidently, he set out for a local brewery. The woman immediately reported him to the police, who tracked him down while he was drinking beer. Shortly after, everything would be known about her and a mother who had already filed a complaint about the disappearance of her daughter, plunged into pain for her rape and cruel murder.
Marianne Bachmeier and justice by her own hand
At the police station, Klaus Grabowski quickly confessed what he did with Anna. However, he had the audacity to say that the girl had seduced him and that he had to kill her because she (only 7 years old) tried to blackmail him in exchange for not confessing to her mother that she had improperly touched him. According to the subject, he did not rape the minor.
Marianne Bachmeier was slowly learning the disturbing and painful details of her daughter’s rape and murder. The pain, however, did not stop her from starting to hatch a plan to get revenge on the man who practically took her life from her.
According to information recorded more than 40 years ago about this case, the woman took possession of an Italian-made Beretta M1934 weapon.
For a year he was practicing shooting and, at the same time, he attended the trial against his executioner. She watched a series of witnesses surreptitiously file by, listening discreetly but filled with pain and anger to the details of her daughter’s tragic end.
When the trial loomed an outcome, Marianne entered court one morning. She walked with a firm and well-founded step, besides her weapon which she hid well, in a large light coat. Her outfit was a cover for her premeditated plan about to hit, literally speaking.
After circumventing the review controls, the woman entered the room and stood in the direction of the podium where the judge would make his defense, but she had several more in mind. Within seconds, she pulled the Beretta from her and shot the rapist and murderer of her daughter in the back 8 times, to the widespread panic of the court.
Recreation for the 1983 documentary film “Der Fall Bachmeier: Keine Zeit für Tränen” (The Bachmeier Case: No Time for Tears).
Seven of the impacts killed Grabowski. The eighth came out of the magazine. When everyone had (relatively) calmed down, they held her tight and took the gun from her. The woman, however, had concluded the plan to avenge her daughter Anna from her. It was May 6, 1981, one year and one day after her daughter had been taken from him.
Later, the woman regretted not having shot the man face to face. Marianne did not want to wait for justice and she had to pay for it.
Marianne Bachmeier
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The death of Marianne Bachmeier
Marianne Bachmeier was imprisoned and prosecuted after shooting her daughter’s rapist, despite the fact that her lawyers did their best to make the judge in the case see that she acted out of pain.
However, the accusing party clung to a year’s training in the handling of a weapon, by the woman, to ensure that she acted with premeditation.
Ultimately, she was sentenced to 6 years in prison, but was released on bail halfway through her sentence.
The first statements he offered, after coming out of his confinement, confirmed what happened in May 1981, by noting that he acted with premeditation. She tried to make a difference between her crime and the rape and murder of a child, as Klaus Grabowski did with her daughter.
“I think it makes a big difference if I kill a girl because I am afraid of going to prison for the rest of my life. And then also the ‘how’, that is, I stand behind the girl and strangle her, which literally follows from her statement: ‘I hear something come out of her nose, then I pull harder, then I can’t remove the mask anymore. view of his body,” he declared.
Bachmeier died in 1996. He was 46 when his end came, due to pancreatic cancer. She asked to be buried next to Anna, the girl who for seven years gave meaning to her life and that a rapist took from her in the blink of an eye.
