You were the front-page story in Der Spiegel and Stern hired a team of psychologists to prepare a profile of you, while Fokus carried a special piece on the dead of Fennried. Bild wrote: No one came out alive! The Berliner Zeitung matched that with Welcome to the German Slaughterhouse. They all thought it was going to go on like that. You were the terror, you were the scourge. No one could have even guessed that you were approaching the end of your journey. The hunt after you was stepped up. The press wouldn’t leave the story alone, there was barely a newspaper that wasn’t constantly proclaiming new theories. The nation reacted, the politicians drew conclusions. The special commission was reestablished and expanded by a hundred and fifty policemen after a vote in the Bundestag urged Intensification of measures to find the perpetrator. The new team tried to link the murders on the A4 and in the motel with the murders in Fennried. But what exactly was the link? Never had so much money been invested in a police operation.
