There were two more murders 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cup of murder.

Being a man of the cloth doesn't make you immune to punishment.

On February 18, 1916, a man was executed in a history-making case,

a man who killed as many as five individuals while working as a trusted member of the church.

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of

murder. Han Schmidt, born sometime in 1881, never had things easy as a young boy. Born into a

family with a long history of mental illness, Han suffered at the brutal hand of his father

and was watched, but never helped, by his terrified mother.

Living in a small German town, before long, Hans himself started to exhibit troubling

behaviors that had many worried. Like the fact that he, at a very young age,

preferred spending his afternoons watching animals being processed at a local slaughterhouse

instead of hanging out with others his age.

A boy who seemed to have a fascination with blood and violence, Hans went as far as to behead two of his parents' geese and allegedly kept their heads in his pockets.

Described as having a fascination with drinking blood and exhibiting, quote, bisexual promiscuity,

Hans' most favorite game to play all throughout childhood was one where he fancied himself a Catholic priest.

Fashioning his own handmade altar, he was absolutely entranced by the Roman Catholic

rituals and often played as if he himself had a congregation to look over, which is why it was

a no surprise when he entered the seminary, during which time he was arrested for counterfeiting

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