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Jun 2024
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The Fire Devil of Volkhoven - June 19 20...

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June 19th: Willi Walter Seifert Born (1921)

With the death of the accused we oftentimes lose the chance to hear their motive. On June 19th 1921 a man was born who would take out his long brewing revenge upon a school that had nothing to do with the pitfalls of his life. A man with a motive we will never understand.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_school_massacrehttps://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/seifert-walter.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/12/archives/maniac-sprays-fire-on-cologne-pupils.html



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