The Serial Killer - Part XXI
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Anna Maria Zwanziger was employed, from 1801 until 1811, as a housekeeper at the home of several judges in Bavaria. She poisoned her employers with arsenic, and then nurse them back to health to gain their favour. She referred to the poison as "her truest friend". She poisoned three people, and attempted to poison several others, killing four people, one of whom was a baby. Four others survived her attempts.
Zwanziger was judged guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Before she was beheaded, she said it was probably a good thing she was to be executed, as she did not think she would be able to stop - "It is perhaps better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to give up the practice of poisoning people."
I particularly like Anna because she represents another emblematic feature of any true serial killer - the fact that she couldn't make herself stop. Serial killers live to kill, which is something most people don't understand. We need to kill. It is more than a compulsion, or a mission, it is something as natural as breathing. Killing is our way of being in this world, not even as a second nature, but the real one. There are people, like Anna, who do not live well with that nature, others, such as me, who embrace and cherish it.
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Anna Maria Zwanziger was employed, from 1801 until 1811, as a housekeeper at the home of several judges in Bavaria. She poisoned her employers with arsenic, and then nurse them back to health to gain their favour. She referred to the poison as "her truest friend". She poisoned three people, and attempted to poison several others, killing four people, one of whom was a baby. Four others survived her attempts.
Zwanziger was judged guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Before she was beheaded, she said it was probably a good thing she was to be executed, as she did not think she would be able to stop - "It is perhaps better for the community that I should die, as it would be impossible for me to give up the practice of poisoning people."
I particularly like Anna because she represents another emblematic feature of any true serial killer - the fact that she couldn't make herself stop. Serial killers live to kill, which is something most people don't understand. We need to kill. It is more than a compulsion, or a mission, it is something as natural as breathing. Killing is our way of being in this world, not even as a second nature, but the real one. There are people, like Anna, who do not live well with that nature, others, such as me, who embrace and cherish it.
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