EXCERPT
(translated from German): The geriatric nurse Marianne Nölle from Cologne has
completed in the opinion of the Kripo [German Department of Investigation] completed
17 and attempted 18 murders. She was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 for
seven proven acts from 1984 to 1992. In each case she always given her patients
excessive doses of the tranquillizer Truxal. She never made a confession. A
theft investigation put police on the trail of the deadly nurse on the complaint
of the son of a one of one of her patients.
[Stephan
Harbort
,” Kriminalistik - Serienmördern
auf der Spur,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, 11.05.2004]
,” Kriminalistik - Serienmördern
auf der Spur,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, 11.05.2004]
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FULL TEXT: BONN,
Germany -- A court Wednesday [Apr. 28] sentenced a nurse to life imprisonment
after finding her guilty of killing and robbing six of her elderly patients,
including one aged 91.
The defendant,
Marianne Noelle, 57, broke down into tears as the presiding judge at the
Cologne court described the murders and asked her why she wanted “to play
master over life and death.”
Judge Dietmar
Herfs said Noelle had a “two-faced personality” -- the friendly, competent and
dutiful nurse and Noelle the murderer who could have got without committing any
crime everything that she has obtained in a criminal manner.
Herfs said
Noelle's grateful patients would happily have written their wills in favor of
the nurse who cared for them.
He said Noelle
killed six of her patients, including one aged 91, by giving them overdoses of
tranquilizers. The judge said Noelle then robbed her patients' money and
jewelry.
A witness said
earlier at the trial that one of the victims, an 88- year-old woman, had wanted
to reach the age of 100.
“Why could you
not give her a chance to get at least close to her aim?” the judge asked the
defendant.
The judge gave
Noelle two life sentences to run concurrently after finding her guilty on six
counts of murder by poisoning.
Noelle, who was
arrested in May 1991, refused to answer the court's questions and only broke
her silence in the last days of the trial to insist she was innocent. During
the six months of hearings, 115 witnesses and six experts gave testimony.
[“Killer nurse in Germany sentenced to life imprisonment,” UPI, Apr. 28, 1993]
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EXCERPT
(translated from German): The 88-year-old Margarete E. died in July 1990 as the
penultimate of the victims. The old lady was still sprightly and very cheerful,
nothing indicated that she was ill. Heart failure was given as the cause of
death in the death certificate that the doctor had filled out. Relatives were suspicious,
the supervisor indicated.
Although Nölle
had already targeted the police, she again resorted to her can of Truxal, an
antipsychotic (sedative) that also leads to respiratory paralysis in the
overdose. "Take that, it will do you good," she is always supposed to
have said.
The prosecution
ordered the exhumation of the many dead. Even years after death, traces of
Truxal can still be found in their bodies, from which four cans were found in
Nölle's flat. How she administered the overdosed poison was never clarified.
In May 1988. Erna
Mai dies at the age of 87. Doubts come up. She, too, had been robbed. The death
certificate again showed "natural death". Marianne Nölle, notorious
liar, directs suspicion to the grandson of the old lady. The examinations are
inadequate, the woman was old and frail. Nobody Proper research was not done. The
investigations are stopped. Only two years later, the exhumations began, which
showed that there were even more old people like Erna Mai poisoned. The death
certificate doctors and the police: a collective failure!
[Günther Classen,
Der „Todesengel von Köln“ 17 Morde unter dem Deckmantel der Barmherzigkeit (“The
‘Death Angel of Cologne’; 17 murders under the guise of mercy”), Express, 08.11.18]
[431-1/6/21]
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