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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    a rich dinner within the hour of her death, that event had to be presumed to have occurred about mid- night. The place of the death of Hahn can be presumed to have been near the place where her body was found on the edge of the wood; for it is unlikely that the murderer dragged the body very far. I have already mentioned the leaves in the anus. The body of the little Albermann was discovered in so typical a position that she must have been killed and sexually violated where she was found. The position, with widely spread legs and the clothes pulled upwards, the knickers torn up behind, arouse the inevitable suspicion that the child had been put in this position in order to rape it from behind. At the place where the body was found only the smallest traces of blood were discovered, for the rain which fell on the 7th and 8th had washed most of it away. Most of the blood had been absorbed by the clothes. On considering the sequence of these deaths—as far as it is possible from the autopsies—one circum- stance of vital importance emerges. The great lacera- tions in the vagina and anus bled little. The blood from this source must have been absorbed by the clothing as the child had not been undressed. But in the ad- joining vest and knickers little blood was visible. Usually the tissues about the genitals which have a rich blood supply, bleed copiously. This small amount of bleeding suggests that the child was already dying at the time when it was outraged. Therefore, the sexual act must have terminated the whole course of ill-treatment. It is of importance further to note