Patrick Schaff

Article summary

Patrick Joseph Max Schaff (1966 – March 25, 2022), known as The House of Horrors Killer ( ), was a French serial killer who murdered and dismembered two homeless women in Italy's Piedmont region in 1995. Convicted of one murder and sentenced to 26 years imprisonment, he killed a cellmate in 2005 and was interned at a psychiatric facility. In 2007, he wrote a letter to the prosecutor confessing to all three crimes, but as he was already interned at a mental facility, he was never charged. He died in 2022, after being struck by a sudden illness.

Key claims

1. date of birth: 1966 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of death: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378800402