12:01AM GMT 01 Feb 2002
TWO satanists who stabbed a friend to death because they said the devil told them to grinned mockingly at their victim's parents yesterday before being sent to secure psychiatric units.
Daniel Ruda, 26, and his wife Manuela, 23, who said she learnt about satanism in England and Scotland, were committed for 15 and 13 years respectively. Both stared blankly ahead as sentence was passed at Bochum, western Germany.
Judge Arno Kersting-Tombroke said they had committed a "terrible crime" in murdering their friend, Frank Hackert, 33, by stabbing him 66 times.
...Daniel Ruda, a car parts salesman, and Manuela, had admitted the killing, but said they were not responsible because they were acting on the devil's orders. "Kill, sacrifice, bring souls," was how they described the command.
The couple said they had chosen "Hacki", as they called him, for sacrifice because he was "so funny and would be the perfect court jester for Satan".
...In the bathroom there was a black and white poster of hanged women. Skulls, scalpels stained with blood, vampire teeth and coloured contact lenses lay scattered around. On the floor in the main room was a great deal of blood and a coffin in which Manuela sometimes slept.
The body of Mr Hackert, a former colleague of Daniel Ruda, lay among the chaos. Besides having been stabbed 66 times, his arms and face had been savaged with a machete.
A scalpel was lodged in his stomach and next to it was a pentagram cut into the skin. A note, which police believe was a death list of 15 intended victims, was found near his body.
The judge said the couple met three years ago after Daniel Ruda put an advertisement in a lonely hearts column. It said: "Vampire seeks princess of darkness that hates everyone and everything."
They married on the 6th of the 6th month, June, last year and decided to kill on the 6th of July. That gave them the 666 number, the biblical symbol of the devil.
...Manuela, an only child who loved animals, shocked her middle-class parents from the age of 13 with her punk haircuts and garish clothes.
At 16 she ran away to England, living first in London. There she told how she met other satanists and went to "bite parties" where people drank each others' blood.
"Men were always trotting after me," she said. "They were my blood donors." She then headed to Scotland where she worked as a chambermaid in a hotel in the Highlands.
Last kiss as Satanist killers are locked up
TWO satanists who stabbed a friend to death because they said the devil told them to grinned mockingly at their victim's parents yesterday before being sent to secure psychiatric units.
Daniel Ruda, 26, and his wife Manuela, 23, who said she learnt about satanism in England and Scotland, were committed for 15 and 13 years respectively. Both stared blankly ahead as sentence was passed at Bochum, western Germany.
Judge Arno Kersting-Tombroke said they had committed a "terrible crime" in murdering their friend, Frank Hackert, 33, by stabbing him 66 times.
...Daniel Ruda, a car parts salesman, and Manuela, had admitted the killing, but said they were not responsible because they were acting on the devil's orders. "Kill, sacrifice, bring souls," was how they described the command.
The couple said they had chosen "Hacki", as they called him, for sacrifice because he was "so funny and would be the perfect court jester for Satan".
...In the bathroom there was a black and white poster of hanged women. Skulls, scalpels stained with blood, vampire teeth and coloured contact lenses lay scattered around. On the floor in the main room was a great deal of blood and a coffin in which Manuela sometimes slept.
The body of Mr Hackert, a former colleague of Daniel Ruda, lay among the chaos. Besides having been stabbed 66 times, his arms and face had been savaged with a machete.
A scalpel was lodged in his stomach and next to it was a pentagram cut into the skin. A note, which police believe was a death list of 15 intended victims, was found near his body.
The judge said the couple met three years ago after Daniel Ruda put an advertisement in a lonely hearts column. It said: "Vampire seeks princess of darkness that hates everyone and everything."
They married on the 6th of the 6th month, June, last year and decided to kill on the 6th of July. That gave them the 666 number, the biblical symbol of the devil.
...Manuela, an only child who loved animals, shocked her middle-class parents from the age of 13 with her punk haircuts and garish clothes.
At 16 she ran away to England, living first in London. There she told how she met other satanists and went to "bite parties" where people drank each others' blood.
"Men were always trotting after me," she said. "They were my blood donors." She then headed to Scotland where she worked as a chambermaid in a hotel in the Highlands.
Last kiss as Satanist killers are locked up
