Satanic
Killers Tell of Blood Drinking Rites
By Hannah Cleaver in Berlin
(Filed: 18/01/2002)
A WOMAN
who says she and her husband killed a German friend with 66 knife wounds
on orders from the devil has claimed that she became a satanist in
Britain.
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Manuela
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German
police say any evidence pointing to possible crimes or an illegal
satanic ring in Britain will be sent to the relevant authorities.
Manuela
Ruda and her husband, Daniel, have admitted killing their friend, Frank
Haagen, "for Satan". She said she got a taste for vampirism
and the occult while in London and Scotland.
She
appeared at the regional court in Bochum in full gothic garb, her head
partly shaved to reveal an upside down crucifix and a target tattooed on
her skull.
Mrs Ruda,
23, gave a chilling account of drinking blood from volunteers contacted
on the internet. She said: "I was in England and Scotland, met
people and vampires in London. We went out at night, to cemeteries, in
ruins and in the woods.
"We
drank blood together, from willing donors. You can't drink from the
arteries, no-one is allowed that. I had implanted pegs put in the teeth
which were pulled out and were replaced with fangs.
"I
also slept on graves and even allowed myself to be buried in a grave to
test the feeling. I signed over my soul to Satan two and a half years
ago."
The
couple have denied responsibility for killing Mr Haagen, 33, although
both have admitted committing the crime.
Mrs Ruda
told the court: "It was not murder. We are not murderers. It was
the execution of an order. Satan ordered us to. We had to comply. It was
not something bad. It simply had to be. We wanted to make sure that the
victim suffered well."
Her
husband compared himself and his wife to a vehicle involved in a fatal
accident. "The car would not be charged," he said. "The
driver is the bad guy. I have nothing to regret because I haven't done
anything."
Mrs Ruda
said she and her 26-year-old husband lured their victim to their flat.
When they arrived a "strange force" and "other
beings" were present.
"We
were sitting on the couch the whole time, then my husband stood
up," she said. "He had terrible, glowing eyes and hit out with
the hammer.
"Frank
stood up and said something, or wanted to say something. The knife was
glowing and a voice told me: 'Stab him in the heart.'
"He
then sank down. I saw a light flickering around him. That was the sign
that his soul was going down. We said a satanic prayer.
"We
were then exhausted, and alone, wanted to die ourselves. But the
visitation was too short. We could no longer kill ourselves."
After
killing Mr Haagen the couple cut an occult star on his stomach, drank
his blood from a bowl and had sex in an oak coffin in which Mrs Ruda
usually slept.
The
couple were arrested in their flat, the walls of which were covered in
satanic slogans and hung with an array of knives, axes and machetes.
Mr
Haagen's mutilated and partially-decomposed body was found next to the
coffin in the living room.
Dieter
Justinsky, the public prosecutor, said: "I have never, ever seen
such a picture of cruelty and depravity before. They simply had a lust
for murder.
"Both
believed in Satan, they worshipped him. A death list found in the flat
contained the names of future victims. They drank his blood, slept in
coffins and believed they would achieve immortality as vampires."
Several
witnesses have testified that the couple suffered from personality
disorders. They could both face long terms at secure psychiatric
institutions.
The Rudas
told police that they went to Britain twice, spending five months in
Scotland in 1996 and visiting London in February 1997. The gothic
phenomenon, an off-shoot of the punk scene, emerged in the late 1970s.
A
spokesman for Bochum police said last night that any information
relating to crimes in Britain would be passed to the relevant
authorities.
The case
continues.
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