Hans Schmidt was many things, a Catholic priest, a mystic and scholar, a forger and counterfeiter, a necrophiliac and sexual deviant, a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer. He was also the only priest in history to be executed in the United States, having been electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on February 18, 1916.

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Killer Priest: The Crimes, Trial and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt by Mark Gado. Prager, March 30, 2006. ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-0275985530

New York Times September 23, 1913 "Schmidt Purposed to Kill For Money – Approached a Physician with His Plan to Get Insurance, Faurot Discovers – State to Use Alienists – Agrees to Examination at Counsel's Request – Boyhood Friend Finds Him Greatly Changed"

The Evening World February 5, 1914 "Hans Schmidt, Slayer of Anna Aumueller, Faces Death Chair"

The Sun December 13, 1914 "Schmidt Tells Tale of Shielding Muret; Confessed Murder of Anna Aumuller, He Says, to Save Dentist"

All That’s Interesting April 22, 2016 by Nickolaus Hines Hans Schmidt: The Story Of The Only Catholic Priest Executed In The U.S.

Hans Schmidt | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderershmidt

Hans Schmidt (priest) - Wikipedia

On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, Catholic nun Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered in a chapel in Toledo, Ohio in a ritualistic manner many thought was a human sacrifice to the devil.

There was only one suspect, a moody and brooding priest named Father Gerald Robinson; but, in what many considered an elaborate conspiracy involving police, bishops, prosecutors and church officials, no charges were ever filed and the case went unsolved.

Over twenty years later, as the Catholic Church erupted in sex abuse scandals, the case was reopened, exposing numerous allegations of a cult of Satanic priests, sadomasochistic sex rituals, secret files hidden by church officials to cover abuse and murder, prostitution, and ritualistic killings, culminating in the first conviction of an American priest in the killing of a nun.

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Court TV's complete coverage of Gerald Robinson murder case

Sin, Shame, And Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church by David Yonke. Contimuum Press 2006. ISBN 978-0826417558

The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime by Michael H. Stone, M.D. & Gary Brucato, Ph.D., Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-63388-532-5.

New York Times, 12 May 2006 "Priest Found Guilty of Nun's 1980 Murder"

NBC NEWS May 11, 2006 Priest convicted of slaying nun

Columbus Dispatch April 7, 2011 by David Yonke Supreme Court Rejects Woman's Lawsuit Claiming Satanic Abuse by Toledo Priest

NBC NEWS April 21, 2006 Prosecutor: Priest’s blade fits nun’s wounds

FOX NEWS May 11, 2006 Fast Facts: Timeline of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl's Killing | Fox News

Porterville Recorder, July 4, 2014 "Priest convicted of killing nun dies in prison".

Murder of Margaret Ann Pahl - Wikipedia

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17-year-old Tyler Hadley desperately wanted to throw a party in his parents’ house, so on Saturday, July 16, 2011, he ate three hits of ecstasy and bludgeoned his mom and dad to death with the claw end of a 22-inch framing hammer, then posted on Facebook he was having a party.

While his parents’ corpses rotted in their locked bedroom, over a hundred teenagers showed up at his house, raging the night away, somehow oblivious to the blood splatter, bone fragments and brain matter on the walls, and the scent of death, as they played music on the family’s gore-drenched computer and beer pong with a blood-soaked ball.

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See How Much You Love Me: A Troubled Teen, His Devoted Parents, and a Cold-Blooded Killing by Amer Hunt. St. Martin's Griffin, June 3, 2014. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250249791

Rolling Stone Magazine December 18, 2013 by Nathaniel Rich Tyler Hadley's Killer Party: The Shocking Florida House Party Murders

Independent Wednesday November 20, 2024 by Andrea Callier His plan to kill his parents started as a joke. He remembers laughing while he was covered in their blood | The Independent

TCPalm April 27, 2016 by Melissa E. Holsman Appeals court reverses life sentences for convicted killer Tyler Hadley

WPBF News December 20, 2018 Tyler Hadley resentenced to life in prison for murdering his parents

Murders of Blake and Mary-Jo Hadley - Wikipedia

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