Overview
- The Landgericht Konstanz ruled the act constituted murder and ordered his placement in a psychiatric facility.
- The 50-year-old stabbed the 36-year-old 72 times with a 20-centimeter kitchen knife in the victim’s Konstanz apartment in January.
- The court found he believed the victim could read his thoughts and that he sought the victim’s liver as a supposed storage medium.
- He confessed to the killing but denied premeditation, while the court and prosecutors concluded he intended to obtain the organ.
- The judgment is not yet final, and testimony indicated the men had taken drugs together before the attack.