German ‘chatroom killer’ on trial
- Crime, Internet -
By Agence France-Presse
ESSEN–A German man admitted on Wednesday killing two women he had met online but claimed the first case was an accident and that in the second, seeing “the eyes of Jesus” had caused him to snap.
Christian Grotheer, 27, from Hamburg got to know around 300 people on Internet chatrooms, most of them women, his lawyer Burkhard Benecken said, reading from a statement from the defendant on the first day of his trial.
He used the online nicknames “Rosenboy” or “Riddick300″ on the Internet chat rooms, the latter after a fictional serial killer in the gory 2000 science-fiction movie “Pitch Black” with Vin Diesel, daily Die Welt said.
Spending tens of thousands of hours on dating sites like knuddels.de (which means loosely cuddles.de) and making himself out to be a wholesome, normal guy who wrote poetry, he went on dates with around 100 women.
Two of the romantic evenings ended in death.
