The sadist / authorized translation by Olga Illner ... and George Godwin.

  • Berg, Karl
Date:
1938
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Credit: The sadist / authorized translation by Olga Illner ... and George Godwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o'clock in the evening. The autopsy indicated that the child had been waylaid while on her homeward way. The condition of the genitals revealed an injury of little consequence on the mucous membrane of the vagina. The hymen was torn about 1 cm. Only slight traces of seminal fluid were found on the child's under- clothing. It was clear that an ejaculation could not have taken place into the vagina. From these considerations I arrived at the con- clusion that the criminars objective had not been coitus, but that he must have inserted a finger smeared with semen under the unopened knickers of the child and thus inserted it into the vagina. This must have been done with force, for in addition to the scratch at the entrance of the vagina, there was also a trace of bruising of the pelvis. The stabs in the skin of the breast were all together and parallel. Some of these showed that the knife had been held with the cutting edge of the blade upwards. I concluded from the position of these wounds that the criminal had done the stabbing in the breast as the child lay unconscious on the ground, delivering the blows in swift succession. Otherwise one would have expected that the stabbings inflicted on a person still conscious would have been placed irregularly. In addition one would expect to find defensive wounds on the hands. That my conclusions were correct is borne out by the attack which took place on an elderly woman and of which I learned only later. This attack took place five days before the murder of Rosa Ohliger. I attribu-