Helmuth Schmidt
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A.K.A.: "American Bluebeard"
Classification: Serial killer?
Characteristics: Poisoner - Profit-motivated "Bluebeard" slayer of immigrant women, lured with ads in newspaper "lonely-hearts" columns
Number of victims: 1 - 30 +
Date of murders: 19?? - 1918
Date of arrest: April 22, 1918
Date of birth: ???
Victims profile: Augusta Steinbach / Several women
Method of murder: Poisoning
Location: Michigan/New York/New Jersey/Missouri, USA
Status: Committed suicide in prison in Michigan prior to trial on one count in 1918
Helmuth Schmidt had an effective M.O. He would place ads using a false name, trolling for young, lonely, immigrant women whom he would slay at the first opportunity.
Schmidt travelled throughout early twentieth-century America using his ruse to lure victim after victim before being captured in Royal Oak, Michigan, on April 22, 1918, for the killing of Agnes Dominick.
Though it is suspected Schmidt may have killed more than thirty innocent women, the true total will never be known. The killer made himself his own final victim by crushing his own skull while in jail.
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
VICTIMS: "Dozens" suspected
MO: Profit-motivated "Bluebeard" slayer of immigrant women, lured with ads in newspaper "lonely-hearts" columns.
DISPOSITION: Jailhouse suicide in Mich. prior to trial on one count, 1918.
PDF FILE
admits killing girl then ends his life
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/images/schmidt_helmuth/102695584.pdf
NO PICTURES AVAILABLE
A.K.A.: "American Bluebeard"
Classification: Serial killer?
Characteristics: Poisoner - Profit-motivated "Bluebeard" slayer of immigrant women, lured with ads in newspaper "lonely-hearts" columns
Number of victims: 1 - 30 +
Date of murders: 19?? - 1918
Date of arrest: April 22, 1918
Date of birth: ???
Victims profile: Augusta Steinbach / Several women
Method of murder: Poisoning
Location: Michigan/New York/New Jersey/Missouri, USA
Status: Committed suicide in prison in Michigan prior to trial on one count in 1918
Helmuth Schmidt had an effective M.O. He would place ads using a false name, trolling for young, lonely, immigrant women whom he would slay at the first opportunity.
Schmidt travelled throughout early twentieth-century America using his ruse to lure victim after victim before being captured in Royal Oak, Michigan, on April 22, 1918, for the killing of Agnes Dominick.
Though it is suspected Schmidt may have killed more than thirty innocent women, the true total will never be known. The killer made himself his own final victim by crushing his own skull while in jail.
SEX: M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE
VICTIMS: "Dozens" suspected
MO: Profit-motivated "Bluebeard" slayer of immigrant women, lured with ads in newspaper "lonely-hearts" columns.
DISPOSITION: Jailhouse suicide in Mich. prior to trial on one count, 1918.
PDF FILE
admits killing girl then ends his life
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/images/schmidt_helmuth/102695584.pdf
