Escape from the torture chamber: Woman flees flat fitted with bombs and a padded cell
- Kidnapper stalked woman and had 'vast array' of torture devices in his flat
- He intended to keep victim for 'some time' and detonate bombs when he had finished
A man described as a ‘cold sadist’ imprisoned a woman in his home-made torture chamber rigged with eight bombs designed to detonate when he had finished with her.
Thomas Fischer, 30, turned his tiny flat into a terrifying lair in which he had installed an old soundproofed telephone box to lock up his victim.
He used an assortment of scalpels, needles and syringes to practise with on a mannequin before snatching the woman off a street in Hamburg.
But while it appeared he had been planning to imprison her for a number of months, she was only in his clutches for two hours – after he forgot to lock the door to the ‘cell’.
The 26-year-old victim, who was handcuffed, managed to flee by lunging through a window of the ground-floor flat.
Fischer tore into the street after her but she outran him and fled to the safety of a friend’s home.
She brought police to the apartment, where Fischer had returned. He has not said a word since he was arrested.
Police searching the flat were said to be left speechless by the macabre set-up.
The outside of the windows were criss-crossed with barbed wire and sealed on the inside with baking foil and clingfilm. A hand grenade and Walther pistol were also found.
The cupboards were stocked with tinned food, rice and pasta as ‘if he was prepared for a long time indoors’.
The fertiliser-based bombs, which were packed into fire extinguishers, were so volatile police had to evacuate 300 people when his flat was searched. Fischer had apparently made them using recipes he found on the internet.
Police said he and the woman knew each other after being introduced by a friend, but that there was ‘definitely no relationship’ and that Fischer had become obsessed with ‘owning’ her and stalked her.
Some media reports said he wanted to get her pregnant after kidnapping her off the street on Friday.
He rigged up a camera outside the door to his 88 sq ft flat so he could observe who was trying to get in and had huge planks stored in the basement designed to seal the windows.
Senior public prosecutor Wilhelm Möllers said: ‘It is evident the apartment was meant as a place of confinement for some time.’
Fischer, who was back in his apartment with his weapons when police arrived, has not said a word since he was arrested.
A jobless gardener using the pseudonym Holger told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper he has known Fischer for three years.
He said: ‘Thommy is a complete cold sadist. I never once saw him smile. He has no heart. This pig has plotted this crime for years.’
The man met Fischer at the Mahlzeit hostel in the Altona district, where Fischer would buy drinks for homeless people.
Holger went on: ‘He came every Monday wearing a military-style jacket. He drank a coffee and ogled the women. He never said a word about himself.
‘Instead he always asked me and my friends, “Where can I get a gun around here?” He asked us if we could get dentist tools from the flea market for him.
‘He was not playing with a full deck – you didn’t have to be a shrink to see that. He once brought a rabbit into the pub in a box. “Please kill it for me,” he said. “I want to eat.”
‘He didn’t have a job but said he sold old Nazi uniforms on the web for good money. He’d buy us beers but he didn’t drink. If a woman joined us he froze. He had never had sex, he told us that.
‘A lot of us are mad, but we are not sick in the head like him. I think Thommy will be quite happy in jail – safe in his own little world.’
Jesus Christ, that's one sick individual. This makes Saw's Jigsaw look mellow in comparison
Luckely the woman escaped pretty quickly.
She brought police to the apartment, where Fischer had returned.
And fortunately, for some bizarre reason he didn't run for it. Didn't remember to lock the cell door, didn't run when he had to know she'd go for help...this guy managed quite an impressive amount of preparation for his sick fantasy, it's a good thing he wasn't so good in the execution.
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Stofsk wrote:Perhaps he wanted to be found. I don't know, after she escaped he probably did the math up in his head and realised running just makes things worse.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if Fischer's motivations even make sense to himself; one of the major drawbacks to having even moderate psychiatric issues is never really knowing why you do many things, and his psychiatric issues clearly go far beyond "moderate". I'd be surprised if he's even found fit to stand trial.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
Replace "ginger" with "n*gger," and suddenly it become a lot less funny, doesn't it?
-- fgalkin
No doubt this nutter was inspired by that other much older, more "successful" nutter from down south in Amstetten, Austria.
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'Secondly, I don't see why "income inequality" is a bad thing. Poverty is not an injustice. There is no such thing as causes for poverty, only causes for wealth. Poverty is not a wrong, but taking money from those who have it to equalize incomes is basically theft, which is wrong.' - Typical Randroid
'I think it's gone a little bit wrong.' - The Doctor
Hell, this special case reminds me of that guy who had a container somewhere in the desert, and tortured girls for days- on various levels who was in a documentary in German TV some years ago. I just can't come up with the name...
A minute's thought suggests that the very idea of this is stupid. A more detailed examination raises the possibility that it might be an answer to the question "how could the Germans win the war after the US gets involved?" - Captain Seafort, in a thread proposing a 1942 'D-Day' in Quiberon Bay
You know I'm definitely not cheering for this guy's plan or anything but it needs to be observed...
Good Lord How Incompetent. He planned for all those contingencies and only held onto her for two hours because he forgot to lock the fucking DOOR?
I imagine he's borderline catatonic, because of sheer, overwhelming chagrin he's feeling. He must have just sat there and decided on some level, "you know what, I'm not even functional as a sadist, just... fuck it."
Incidently, why are grenades available for purchase?
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This topic is... oh Village Idiot. Carry on then.--Havok
Themightytom wrote:You know I'm definitely not cheering for this guy's plan or anything but it needs to be observed...
Good Lord How Incompetent. He planned for all those contingencies and only held onto her for two hours because he forgot to lock the fucking DOOR?
Well, he's German, so he would presumably have a natural talent for building elaborate torture chambers
More seriously, when he built his torture chamber and planned this hideous crime, he had the luxury of being able to do so in a calm, collected fashion. Perhaps when he was in the act of actually committing the crime, his adrenaline was pumping and it affected his judgement. Hence, he forgot to lock the door.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
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"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Themightytom wrote:You know I'm definitely not cheering for this guy's plan or anything but it needs to be observed...
Good Lord How Incompetent. He planned for all those contingencies and only held onto her for two hours because he forgot to lock the fucking DOOR?
I imagine he's borderline catatonic, because of sheer, overwhelming chagrin he's feeling. He must have just sat there and decided on some level, "you know what, I'm not even functional as a sadist, just... fuck it."
Incidently, why are grenades available for purchase?
He probably dug it up somewhere. From 1933-1990 it was one of the most heavily armed regions of the world. & The Red Army rather left in disarray & sold off a lot of their things on the black market.
I'm surprised no one noticed the Barbed Wire on his windows.
Crazy Killer: "Oh, those are just a new species of invasive vine"
@ Emperor Wong: Dude, I can't believe you went there. Though maybe he watched the Human Centipede (stupidest comedy ever) & wanted to play Herr Doktor?
