Police seize sequence ‘paddling pool slasher’ after 7 years

The people of Münnerstadt can finally nap peacefully during night, meaningful their paddling pools are during final safe.

For 7 years, Lower Franconians have been terrorized by a puzzling male who would come in a night to their homes, not to sack or mistreat them, though to condense holes in their paddling pools, withdrawal them broken for good.

Over that time, a sum of 47 inflatable pools mislaid their atmosphere to a different outlaw, who had come to be famous as a “paddling pool slasher”.

But Bavarian military pronounced on Wednesday that after an “extensive investigation”, they had finally held their male – a 27-year-old from a area – and he certified to his rapist streak.

Police pronounced it had been tough to brand a “slasher” since he roughly always fled a stage of his crimes but anyone detecting him, and so they usually had a few declare descriptions with that to work.

The law-breaker certified that he had wrecked a inflatable pools “for fun” and that it was always a extemporaneous act. During a hunt of his apartment, investigators also found a accumulate of atmosphere mattresses that he had apparently stolen from a crime scenes. Police pronounced they “could not order out” either this indicated some kind of fetish.

But a immature paddling-pool destroyer pronounced he also could not remember all of a bad pools that he had mutilated, revelation military he believed a sum to be “around 20 to 30” – therefore not accounting for all 47.

Police pronounced it could be probable that there might be copycats also on a loose.