Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - A Mother’s Revenge The Tragic Life of Marianne Bachmeier and Her Courtroom Justice PART3 #40

Episode Date: November 1, 2025

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and supposedly everyone goes home feeling like the system worked. But reality? It's way messy. Sometimes justice doesn't show up when you need it. Sometimes it just fails. And when it fails, people, ordinary people, step in and make decisions that change everything. That's basically the story of Marian, a mother from Germany back in the early 80s. Her case became one of the wildest, most controversial moments in European true crime history.

Depending on who you ask, she was either a grieving mother who had no choice but to do what she did, or she was a cold-blooded vigilante who planned it all from the beginning. But to understand what went down, we have to go back. Back to May 5, 1980. The last morning. So here's what happened. Little Anna was just seven years old, and like a lot of kids her age, she was full of life, curious about everything, and way too trusting.

She'd follow anyone who promised her candy, kittens, or just a bit of attention. That trustfulness made her adorable to some people, but dangerous to others. Now, her mom, Marianne, was doing the best she could. She worked nights at a bar, which meant during the day she was exhausted. By morning, she'd be crashing into bed, leaving Anna to get herself ready for school, eat breakfast alone, and basically take care of herself like she was a teenager instead of a little girl. On May 5th, things between Marian and Anna blew up.

They argued, voices got loud, and Marianne stormed off to bed. She figured Anna would just keep to her normal routine, school, come home, eat something, maybe hang out with friends, then back again. But Anna was seven. Seven. And seven-year-olds don't think like that. They're emotional, impulsive, dramatic little tornadoes. So Anna decided she wasn't going to school that day.

She was going to punish her mom. If her mom could ignore her feelings, then fine, she'd rebel the only way she knew how. Skip class, wander the streets, play outside, find someone to give her the attention she was craving. And that's when she ran into Klaus. The man next door Klaus Krabowski Remember that name He was 35 years old, worked as a butcher,

And on the surface seemed like one of those regular, quiet neighbors You never think twice about. He lived near the bar where Marianne worked, And he wasn't exactly a stranger. He had been around, people had seen him, And no one ever thought much of it. But here's the thing, Klaus had a history. And not just any history.

A terrifying one. Back in the 70s, he'd been convicted for abusing two little girls. For that, he had been sent to prison. And when he was faced with the possibility of staying locked up indefinitely, he made a choice, chemical castration. That's right, he agreed to be injected with treatments that were supposed to kill his sex drive completely. Problem solved, right? Wrong. Klaus didn't want to live with those side effects, so he secretly started taking hormones to reverse it.

According to him, it worked. He bragged about it, even. So here was this man who had already proven he was a danger to children, who had tricked the justice system into letting him out early, and who was now living right next door to a little girl who was too trusting for her own good. And to make it worse, Klaus had bait. Cats. Kittens, actually. He'd already shown them to Anna once before. Invited her inside, let her play with them, stroke their fur, laugh at their tiny meows. He didn't hurt her that time.

He was smart. He wanted her to trust him. And she did. So when Anna crossed his path on May 5th and Klaus invited her up again, she didn't hesitate. The crime What happened next is stomach turning. This time, Klaus didn't just let Anna pet the kittens. He locked the door behind her.

He subjected her to abuse, the kind no child should ever have to endure, and then, when he was done, he strangled her with her own underwear. Think about that. A seven-year-old girl, treated like nothing, discarded like trash. Klaus stuffed her tiny body into a cardboard box and dumped it near a canal as if she was something broken he wanted to get rid of. Meanwhile, back in the neighborhood,

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Anna hadn't gone to school. People were searching. Neighbors, bar patrons, friends, they were all calling out her name, checking the streets, panicking as night fell and still no sign of her. Marianne thought maybe Anna was just being defiant, skipping school to get back at her. But by the next day, her hope was shattered. Because Klaus had confessed. Not to the police, no, of course not. He confessed to his fiancé. He told her everything. Every horrifying detail. And she, horrified and unable to stay quiet, went straight to the cops.

By May 6, Anna's body was found. The arrest and the trial The police had what they needed. The body. The fiancé's testimony. The details only Klaus could have known. He was arrested almost immediately. But here's where things got twisted.

When the trial began in 1981, Klaus didn't just deny the charges. He tried to spin them back on everyone else. His defense claimed Marianne. was at fault. That she was a careless, neglectful mother who left Anna vulnerable to predators like him. He even had the audacity to say that Anna had blackmailed him. Yes, you read that right. He told the court that this seven-year-old child had invented a story about him abusing her, threatened to tell her mom, and demanded money. It was outrageous, disgusting, and cruel, but he said it anyway.

The autopsy clearly showed signs of abuse. The evidence was there. But Klaus stuck to his lies, blaming Marian, blaming the system, blaming the chemical castration, blaming everyone but himself. And Marianne? She sat in that courtroom, listening. Silent. No tears. No screaming.

No outbursts. Witnesses later. said she looked like a statue, staring forward, unblinking, as if she wasn't even really there. But she was. She was listening to every single word. March 6, 1981. Three days into the trial, the tension in the courtroom was suffocating. On the morning of March 6, everyone filed into District Courtroom 157 in Lubbock. Lawyers, judges, journalists, the accused. And then Marianne walked in. She wore a long coat, carried a small handbag, and moved with that same frozen calm she had shown for days. Nobody knew what she was carrying.

Nobody expected what was about to happen. Klaus was seated, ready to defend himself again, probably ready to blame her one more time for his crimes. But before he could open his mouth, Marianne reached into her bag, pulled out a pistol, a Beretta 70, and fired. Seven shots. Six of them hit. Klaus was dead before he even knew what was happening. The courtroom exploded in chaos. Screams, shouts, people ducking for cover.

And Marianne? She didn't run. She didn't fight. She let the guard. guards drag her away, calmly, like she had just finished something she had been waiting to do for months. She told them afterward that she wished she had shot him in the face, not the back. That she wanted him to look her in the eyes when she ended him. And she said she did it for Anna.

For her little girl. Hero or criminal The world was divided. Some people said Marianne had committed cold-blooded murder. Others said she had done what the justice system had failed to do, protect children. In Germany, support for her was overwhelming. People sent her letters in prison, money, gifts. They called her a hero, a warrior mom, someone who had the courage to do what others only dreamed of.

After all, Klaus had already abused kids before. He had already cheated the system once. And the possibility that he might walk free again. Unbearable The prize There's so much rugby on sports extra from Sky They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end

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Call the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre National Helpline on 1-800-77-8888 Whenever you're ready to talk They'll be ready to listen Prosecution argued that Marianne had planned the killing. That she had bought the gun days earlier, practiced shooting it in a basement, and waited for the perfect moment. They said this wasn't impulse.

It was execution. Her defense team countered that she was under extreme emotional stress. That she hadn't planned to kill him, only to confront him. That when she pulled the trigger, it wasn't premeditation, it was raw, uncontrollable grief, all at once. The trial dragged on for months. But when the verdict came in 1983, Marianne was found guilty not of murder, but of manslaughter, along with the legal possession of a firearm. Her sentence.

Six years. She served three. Life after prison When she got out, Marianne wasn't the celebrated hero anymore. The media turned on her. They published unflattering details about her life, claims that she had given two other children up for adoption, that her father had been connected to the Nazi party. Her public image crumbled. She couldn't stay in Lubeck. Every street corner, every building reminded her of Anna. So she left. First to Lagos, Nigeria, where she married again in 1985. The marriage didn't last. By 1990, she was divorced and moved to Sicily, working in a hospice. Then came the cancer diagnosis. Pancreatic. Terminal. She knew her time was running out. Her last wish. To be buried beside Anna. In 1996, at just 46 years old, Marianne passed away. Her wish was honored.

She was laid to rest next to her daughter, the two finally together again. The legacy So, was Marianna murderer? Or was she justice in its purest form, a mother avenging her child because the system wouldn't? It depends who you ask. Some see her as a vigilante who crossed a line no one should ever cross. Others see her as a tragic hero, a woman pushed past her breaking point by grief, rage, and the failure of the courts.

But one thing's undeniable, her story forced Germany, and really the whole world, to face hard questions about justice, punishment, and what happens when the system doesn't protect the most vulnerable. Final thoughts Every time I think about Marianne's story, I keep coming back to the same haunting question, what would I have done in her place? Would I have sat quietly in court while a man lied about my child? smeared her name and twisted the truth to save himself.

Or would I have done what she did, take matters into my own hands, no matter the consequences? It's easy to sit here decades later and say... There's so much rugby on Sports Extra from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby.

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Foot Solutions, the first step towards pain-free feet. She shouldn't have killed him. The law should have handled it. But the law had already failed. Twice. So maybe, in Marianne's mind, there was no choice. And maybe, just maybe, some kinds of... justice can only ever come from a mother's love. The end.