A death pit, two woman murders, eight orphans

Violence against women, the police in Germany register an attempted killing every day. In 2020 alone, 139 women lost their lives at the hands of their husbands or ex-partners. Two shocking cases from Brandenburg, which made just eight children orphans.

By Jörg Bergmann and Matthias Lukashewitsch

The first case

The last entry by Christian P. (41) on Facebook announced good news. There he posted on March 1st that he had married his longtime girlfriend Josefine U. (43).

Hours later happiness is swimming in blood, Josefine lies dead in the kitchen. Stabbed with a knife by her husband.

A neighbor called the police on Am Schlangenfenn in Potsdam last Tuesday at 2:36 p.m. She had heard screams and rumblings.

Christian P. (41) is said to have stabbed his wife and mother of his children, allegedly while intoxicated with drugs (photo: private)
Christian P. (41) is said to have stabbed his wife and mother of his children, allegedly while intoxicated with drugs (photo: private)

Christian P. also stabbed his wife’s daughter (20). Her son Jamie (17) and their two young children (1 and 2) had to watch everything. The daughter is in the hospital but is out of danger, according to investigators.

The other children are currently being cared for by friends, and a pastor is also taking care of them there. The man who made them half-orphans was arrested in front of the house.

The police noticed Christian P. earlier. He is saved with the keywords: “mental behavioral disorders, violent, intensive offender Berlin/Brandenburg, BTM consumer”.

The mother of four died in this prefabricated building on Am Schlangenfenn street in Potsdam on Tuesday (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)
The mother of four died in this prefabricated building on Am Schlangenfenn street in Potsdam on Tuesday (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)

He stabbed his wife after an argument while on drugs, he told crime scene officials. When they tied him up, he wailed that he wanted to kill himself…

The second case

Also in Fehrbellin (Ostprignitz-Ruppin) a father made his four children orphans. Hüseyin U. (36) is said to have killed his wife (33) and buried her body in a pit on a garden plot. According to the police, it must have happened between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. on the night of February 20-21.

In this pit in an allotment garden on the promenade in Fehrbellin, investigators discovered a woman's body on February 27 (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)
In this pit in an allotment garden on the promenade in Fehrbellin, investigators discovered a woman’s body on February 27 (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)

Four days later, a relative reported the woman missing. She ran to the arbor on February 20 after an argument with her husband. The children stayed behind in the apartment.

The allotment gardens on the promenade in Fehrbellin (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)
The allotment gardens on the promenade in Fehrbellin (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)

Only Hüseyin U. is said to have come back around one o’clock in the morning with muddy shoes. The caller worried: “She would never leave her children alone.”

On February 24, the father flew head over heels to Turkey with the children. Relatives with whom he wanted to hide took him to the police a day later. He was interrogated and then released.

Hüseyin U. (36) lived in this house with his family.  He is said to have killed his wife (33) on the night of February 20th to 21st (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)
Hüseyin U. (36) lived in this house with his family. He is said to have killed his wife (33) on the night of February 20th to 21st (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)

Last Sunday, Hüseyin U. suddenly confessed to his family. A Turkish judge issued an arrest warrant.

The four children, who are now half orphans, lived behind this door until their father fled to Turkey with them on February 24 (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)
The four children, who are now half orphans, lived behind this door until their father fled to Turkey with them on February 24 (Photo: Jörg Bergmann)

Officials from the Brandenburg State Criminal Police Office finally found the body of a woman in the garden. Suspicion: It is the mother of the four children.

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