Construction laborer Christian G. (L) admitted at the start of his trial in the city of Essen on Wednesday that he had killed two women he had met through Internet networking sites. But he denies premeditated murder.


German Chatroom Addict on Trial for Two Murders


A German man who met around 150 women in Internet chat rooms went on trial in Germany on Wednesday charged with murdering two of them. Dubbed "Germany's First Internet Murderer" in the press, he has confessed to the killings, but denies he's a serial killer.A 27-year-old German construction laborer obsessed with flirting on the Internet confessed to killing two of the approximately 150 women he had met through chat roooms, but denied murder at the start of his trial on Wednesday in the western city of Essen.

Police believe the man, named only as Christian G. and dubbed "Germany's first Internet Murderer" in the tabloid press, would have continued killing women if he hadn't been arrested. He admitted killing Jessica K., 26, and Regina B., 39, after meeting them for sex last year but sought to avoid a murder conviction by claiming one killing was an accident and the other resulted from an uncontrollable fit of rage that stemmed from his traumatic childhood.



Chat Forum Knuddels.de. Christian G. used this Web site and others to get in touch with hundreds of women. He says he met around 150 of them in person.


Christian G. denies that he's a serial killer, saying that he had personally met over 150 women after getting to know them through the Internet. "They're all still alive," he said. But the prosecution accuses him of premeditated killing. He is charged with murdering Jessica K. on June 5 last year in a park in the northern town of Stade. He is also accused of killing Regina B. 12 days later by stabbing her 26 times.

Christian G. led a parallel life in the Internet, calling himself "rid****300" and "rosenboy0207" and wooing his chat room partners with love poems and photos of himself.On Wednesday Christian G. -- a powerfully built man who is 1.93 metres tall and who has a closely shaved head, moustache and small chin beard -- had his lawyer Burkhard Benecken read out a statement to the court in which he said he had spent his life "almost exclusively in chat rooms" for several years.

"Over the years I established at least 300 contacts via such networking sites. I met at least 100, if not 150 women, in person. I had sexual relations with many of them.""From my point of view the Internet was the ideal way to meet people because you get talking to people very quickly and almost all visitors, male and female, are looking for sexual contact. "I was extremely important to me that I had a good reputation in the chat room."




The body of Christian G's first victim, 26-year-old Jessica K., was recovered two weeks after he killed her in June 2008. He says the death was an accident. He also admits killing 39-year-old Regina B. 12 days later.


His reputation still seems to be important to him. While in custody he asked friends to find out what was being written about him in the Internet. His request for an Internet connection in his jail cell has been denied. "I spent whole nights in these chat rooms and I saw them as my family," Christian G. said in the statement. He looked down at his folded hands or calmly surveyed the courtroom as the lawyer read out his words.

He said he had met Jessica K. for outdoor sex and had killed her by accident while they were having an argument. He said he had grabbed her neck tightly once and that she had collapsed on the ground. He claims that traces of her blood found on the soles of his shoes can be explained by the fact that she had a nosebleed while they were walking through the town together. The precise cause of death has never been determined because Jessica K.'s body wasn't found until two weeks later, by which time it had partly decomposed.



Christian G. led a parallel life in the Internet, calling himself "rid****300" and "rosenboy0207" and wooing his chat room partners with love poems and photos of himself.


Christian G. said Regina, a mother of three, had threatened to accuse him of rape after he refused to lend her money and enter into a firm relationship. When he confronted her while she was walking her dog, she shouted at him: "What do you want, you rapist?"He said those words caused a flashback to his traumatic childhood. "Conditions in my family were more than disastrous. My father was an incredibly brutal person," said Christian G. He said he once saw his father rape his mother.

"I can still remember my mother's cries for help," Christian G. said, adding that anger and fear had driven him to kill. He said he couldn't remember details of the deed."I felt remote controlled. I can only say that if Regina hadn't said things like that to me, and especially if she hadn't called me a rapist, she would definitely be alive today."