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Ulrich Schmidt

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Ulrich Schmidt, known as The Holiday Killer, is a German serial killer and rapist who murdered nine women in Essen, Germany, between 1987 and 1989. He also sexually assaulted four other women, most of whom were critically injured as a result. After he left his camera containing photos of him and his victims at the crime scene of his final attack, he was arrested in 1989, and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1991. Schmidt's moniker was derived from the fact that some of his crimes were committed on public holidays.