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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave.

So this is a good old-fashioned short stuff.

The, oh, man, edition.

Vigilante justice.

Thank you to perplexity and YouTube and How Stuff Works and Mor morbidology for the information on the kind of shocking story of Marianne Bachmeier.

Yeah. So Marianne Bachmeier, you say vigilante.

You usually think guys in the Old West, right?

No, Marianne Bachmeier was a woman in Germany in Lubeck, I believe, Germany in the 1980s,

who carried out essentially an execution in the middle of open court to kill the murderer of her daughter.

If you want to start talking about moral quandries and ethical twists, this is about as good as it gets.

Yeah, as bad as it gets.

On May 5, 1980, and, you know, trigger warning, because this involves sexual violence and violence against a child, which is the worst thing you can imagine.

But her daughter, Anna, was abducted at the age of seven by a man named Klaus Grabowski. He was a 35-year-old butcher. He was out on probation. He had a

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