Revenge Mother: Marianne Bachmeier

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On March 6th 1981, Marianne Bachmeier fatally shot the man who murdered her 7-year-old daughter, right in the middle of his trial. The incident is one of the most well-known cases of vigilante justice in West German history.

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vcjYHfI4I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Bachmeier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilantism#:~:text=On%20the%205th%20of%20May,courtroom%20of%20L%C3%BCbeck%20District%20Court.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-life-vigilantes

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/12/14/A-woman-charged-with-shooting-dead-her-daughters-alleged/5939408690000/

https://www.historydefined.net/marianne-bachmeier/

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/surgery/tubal-ligation#:~:text=Tubal%20ligation%20is%20surgery%20to,means%20she%20is%20%22sterile.%22

Podcast Epi, Buried Motives:Episode 89 AN Eye For An Eye

*This podcast is independently produced using publicly available information and persona...

Send us a text

On March 6th 1981, Marianne Bachmeier fatally shot the man who murdered her 7-year-old daughter, right in the middle of his trial. The incident is one of the most well-known cases of vigilante justice in West German history.

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4vcjYHfI4I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Bachmeier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilantism#:~:text=On%20the%205th%20of%20May,courtroom%20of%20L%C3%BCbeck%20District%20Court.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/real-life-vigilantes

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/12/14/A-woman-charged-with-shooting-dead-her-daughters-alleged/5939408690000/

https://www.historydefined.net/marianne-bachmeier/

https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/surgery/tubal-ligation#:~:text=Tubal%20ligation%20is%20surgery%20to,means%20she%20is%20%22sterile.%22

Podcast Epi, Buried Motives:Episode 89 AN Eye For An Eye

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