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Other names
  
Ludwig

Name
  
Wolfgang and

Criminal charge
  
Serial killer


Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan

Born
  
25 March 1959 (age 65) (
1959-03-25
)
Dusseldorf, West Germany

Occupation
  
Employee of an insurance company

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Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan were arrested for a series of murders in Italy between 1977 and 1984. They claimed innocence, saying they were scapegoats for a police force that could not find the real criminals.

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The crimes

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At each of these crime scenes was a leaflet, written in Italian, headed with the name "Ludwig" over a Nazi eagle and swastika. Each had a slogan, such as "We are the last of the Nazis" and "Death comes to those who betray the true god", and explained the reason for each murder. According to the leaflets the victims were chosen because they were "sub-human"— homosexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts who needed to be eliminated.

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Abel and Furlan's criminal career together began in August 1977, when they burned a Roma drug addict alive with four molotov cocktails.

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  • In Padua they stabbed a casino worker to death. This was followed shortly by the beating and stabbing of a homosexual waiter in Venice who died from his thirty-four knife wounds.
  • In Vicenza they axed a 51-year-old prostitute and crushed the skulls of two priests with a hammer.
  • They burned a sleeping hitch-hiker to death in Verona.
  • In Trento a homosexual priest was killed with a nail hammered in his forehead, followed by a chisel with a wooden cross on it.
  • On 3 March 1984, in Castiglione delle Stiviere Abel and Furlan, dressed in Pierrot costumes, were caught dousing the carpet and furniture in a crowded discotheque with gasoline.

    • Trial and aftermath

    Despite being arrested in March 1984, their trial did not begin until December 1986, the intervening time spent in jail. The trial lasted until January 1987 when they were found guilty of 10 out of 27 counts of murder, and in February they were sentenced to 30 years in prison. However, in the appeal procedures both men were released on bail.

    Abel moved to Mestrino and Furlan to Casale di Scodosia. Furlan fled the country. He was captured in May 1995 living in Crete under a false name and was returned to Italy. In the meantime the appeals court in Venice had sentenced both him and Abel to 27 years in prison. In prison Furlan attempted suicide.

    In April 2008 Furlan appealed to be released into the care of social workers. This was refused, but arrangements were made for his release. He was released in January 2009.

    References

    Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan Wikipedia
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