Georg Karl Grossman (who commonly called himself just Karl Grossman) was a German serial killer. He committed suicide whilst awaiting execution without giving a full confession leaving the extent of his crimes and motives largely unknown. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ...

Grossman was born in Neuruppin near Berlin in 1863. Not a great deal is known about his early life, exept that he was something of a sadist who soon picked up a number of convictions for child molestation. Neuruppin is a town in Brandenburg, Germany. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... Sexual abuse is physical or psychological abuse that involves crimes in most countries. ...

In August 1921, Grossman was arrested at his apartment in Berlin after neighbors heard screams and banging noises, followed by ominious silence. The police had burst in and searched the place, finding a young woman's freshly murdered body on the bed. An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ...  Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...

Karl Grossman was taken into custody and charged with murder. Neighbors reported that Karl seemed to have had a steady supply of female companions, mostly destitute looking young women, over the last few years. Many went into the apartment but few emerged from it. During the First World War, Grossman sold a lot of meat on the black market, and even had a hot-dog stand at the nearby train station. It is believed the meat was the remains of his victims, their bones and other inedible parts being chucked into the river. How many victims Grossman claimed is not known. Only the body of his final victim was found, along with bloodstains in the apartment that indicated at least three other persons had been butchered in the recent weeks. Some have suggested as many as fifty young women entered Grossman's apartment and ended up being murdered, dismembered and eaten by unwitting customers of Grossman's meat business. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Convicted of murder, Grossman was sentenced to death. He cheated the executioner by hanging himself in his cell, having reportedly gone mad since his arrest.

His crimes are very similar to those of his contemporary, Fritz Haarmann, although Haarmann preyed on young boys rather than women. Fritz Haarmann (1879 - April 15, 1925) was a notorious serial killer born in Hanover, Germany. ...