Sabine Radmacher

Victims
3
Years active
September 19, 2010
Location
Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Method
Suffocation - Shooting (cal. 22 sporting gun)
Status
Shot dead by special police units the same day, September 19, 2010. There was no trial.

On September 19, 2010, at Lorrach in Baden-Wurttemberg, Sabine Radmacher, forty-one, a lawyer, killed her estranged husband and their five-year-old son at the family flat, set an explosion there, then drove to the St Elisabethen hospital, entered the children's ward armed with a sporting rifle, and shot a male nurse dead. She was shot dead by police special units at the scene.

The background was a custody dispute. She had been assessed as mentally ill in the period before, and the German reporting and the subsequent inquiry focused on the custody proceedings and on whether the risk had been recognised.

There was no trial. The accessible record is German press reporting and the official account of the police response.

This is a single act, not a serial case, and it is in the archive under that classification.