Waldemar Weimann conducted the autopsy on Irmgard Freese’s body right away. His report concluded, “Death by brain hemorrhage due to a severely fractured skull. The injuries originated from a blunt, non-edged object.”1This was the second woman’s body he’d autopsied that day with blunt weapon injuries to the head. And he’d reviewed photographs of a prior victim as well. So it was very much in his mind that the weapon used, as well as the body being found close to an S-Bahn station, suggested there could be a connection here.He wasn’t the only one thinking this. Wilhelm Lüdtke was also puzzled, as it appeared to be the same killer, but this killing had not taken place on the train—though it had occurred around the time that Elfriede Franke was thrown from the S-Bahn.Dr. Weimann told Lüdtke that he could not be certain that the same weapon had been used on Elfriede Franke and Irmgard Freese, but that their injuries were consistent with this. He also couldn’t confirm in any other way that it was the same attacker.
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