Johann Eichhorn was born on the 8th of October 1906 in the village of Aubing, then part of the German Empire. He grew up as the eldest of eight children in a poor but caring household. His parents, Johann and Magdalena Eichhorn, worked as day laborers and did their best to provide for their large family despite limited means. Eichhorn was also the grandson of the serial killer Johann Berchtold, who would later become known as the “Strangler of Maxvorstadt.” After completing elementary school, Johann Eichhorn trained as a fitter and later secured employment as a shunter for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the German national railway, where colleagues saw him as helpful and dependable. However, behind this façade, he struggled with disturbing impulses from a young age. Beginning in 1928, Eichhorn started attacking young women in western Munich, threatening them with either a pistol or a knife before he beat them, raped them, and sometimes also robbed them. It is widely believed that his first victims were his own two sisters. Eichhorn’s violent impulses, which had remained hidden from the outside world, finally erupted in a deadly act. In October 1931, he encountered 16-year-old Katharina Schätzl, a maid from the small town of Wolnzach, during the Oktoberfest in Munich. Gaining her trust, he invited her on a bicycle ride toward the village of Ebenhausen. Along the route, Eichhorn suddenly turned violent. In a secluded area, he raped Katharina and strangled her to death. He then tried to cover up the crime by weighing down her body with stones and throwing it into the nearby Isar River. Her corpse eventually washed ashore south of Munich. Katharina Schätzl was his first murder victim; previously, he had only committed rapes. Despite the efforts of the Munich police to identify the victim and find the killer, the investigation stalled, and Eichhorn remained free to continue his violent spree.
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