The Alexanders were a family of religious fanatics who believed that every person outside of their little sect was 'owned by the Devil'.
Their warped brand of Christianity dictated that only members of their group were free of Satan's control, and everyone else were instruments of the Devil who needed to be purged with violence if the "Chosen One" gave the word.
In 1970, this led to a terrible tragedy when 16 year old Frank Alexander decided that his mother and sisters were possessed by the Devil and the time had come for them to be killed.
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The Alexanders had originated in Dresden and later moved to Hamburg where Harald Alexander became a disciple of George Riehle, who was the self designated leader of the Lorber Society. Jacob Lorber had founded the religious group in the early nineteenth century, a severe spiritual organization which taught unflinching self-denial and upheld the belief that all nonmembers were basically evil.
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When their son Frank was born, Harald Alexander told his wife that their son was now the Prophet of God and that his every whim had to be observed and obeyed. As the boy grew up he was served by his family members, his older sister Marina, his younger twin sisters Sabine and Petra, and his parents.
They responded to all his wishes and in time, Frank was able to dictate their every movement. The boy, when reaching his teens, decided that he could never "pollute" himself with the bodies of women outside of their small sect and informed his father that he would have sex with his mother. Later, he announced that he would also bed his older sister.
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Soon incestuous relations became commonplace within the Alexander household, and the father not only agreed to them, he enthusiastically encouraged his son to have sex with his wife and daughters at any time. In fact, Harald showed his religious devotion by having intercourse with his oldest daughter, Marina as well as with his wife, often joining Frank and using both women simultaneously. His wife and daughter accepted their roles as sex objects in the belief that they were serving the Prophet of God, Frank Alexander.
Frank's younger sisters were also taught to view the activities going on within their family as completely normal, although they had few friends to share information with, they spoke openly at school about the ways that Dagmar and Marina were 'allowed to serve'. As gossip spread, the Police became very interested in the Prophet and his family.
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The Alexanders, showing depressingly little faith in divine protection, moved hastily beyond the reach of the German Police and relocated to the Canary Islands where they set up home in a small apartment in Santa Cruz, the capital of Tenerife. Neighbours noticed organ music playing from the Alexander residence late into the hours of the night, but nobody complained about the otherwise quiet family that kept to themselves and rarely left their apartment.
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On the night of Wednesday December 22nd, 1970, Harald and Frank Alexander appeared at the villa occupied by Dr. Walter Trenkler, asking to see 15 year old Sabine, who worked for Trenkler as a domestic helper. The Doctor found her in the kitchen preparing a meal and told her that her father and brother were on the patio waiting to see her. She went to them and Trenkler, to his amazement and shock, heard Harald Alexander say to his daughter: "Sabine, dear, we wanted you to know at once that Frank and I have just finished killing your mother and your sisters."
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The girl took her father's hand and put it to her cheek, saying: "That’s wonderful, father!” and ran over to embrace him. Dr. Trenkler stood in shock for a moment, staring at the Alexanders. When Harald caught Trenkler's stare he said matter of factly: "Ah, you've overheard. We've killed my wife and other daughters. It was the hour of killing."
The horrified physician then realised that what he'd originally thought was mud and dirt on the men's clothes, was actually human blood.
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Even more frightening was the behaviour of the Alexanders. They were calm and talked about the murders as if nothing was wrong. Trenkler asked the Alexanders to wait outside and raced into the villa and called the police.
The murders had not been quiet and by the time Trenkler phoned, the Police had already received calls from neighbours who'd heard hellish sounds from the family's flat.
Officers quickly arrived and took the Alexanders into custody while Detective Inspector Juan Hernandez and Detective Sergeant Manuel Perera went to the Alexander flat, accompanied by a police physician.
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They forced open the door and stepped into a place of carnage. All of the dishes, clothing and papers had been smashed, broken and torn to pieces. Everything was in shreds. The ceilings, walls and floors of the apartment were coated with blood and in the middle of the living room were the mutilated bodies of the two daughters, 18 year old Marina and 15 year old Petra. Their breasts and genitals had been hacked away and nailed to one of the walls. The older girl had been disembowelled.
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In the bedroom they found the violated remains of 39 year old Dagmar Alexander. Her breasts and sexual parts were also hacked away, her heart had been cut out and bound on a cord before being nailed to a wall.
The Alexanders, at the local police station, admitted to the murders. Frank Alexander told that he was in the bedroom when Dagmar entered, “I saw that Mother was looking at me and I had the feeling that it was not permitted for her to look at me in this manner. I therefore took the clothes hanger and struck her over the head. After I struck her several times she fell over and lost consciousness. Father had gone to the living room to play the organ and I also went there. First I struck Marina on the head with the hanger and after she lost consciousness, I struck Petra. Father continued to play the organ and praise Jesus, but when I began to remove the offending parts, he came to help me."
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Harald supported every detail of his son's confession, saying that the sex organs of his wife and daughters were "offending parts" which had to be removed, adding that the women in the household had expected the "hour of killing" at any time, that the family had discussed this "holy time" and its eventuality and that the women accepted their roles as human sacrifices for The Prophet, Frank Alexander. Both Frank and Harald then stated that they felt no guilt and that it was all part of their religious beliefs.... that women were unclean and had to be purified by killing.
They claimed that their victims had been released into heaven through their murders and they even celebrated their grisly acts by playing the organ, both taking turns, and singing hymns after slaughtering the females of their household.
Psychiatrists examined the father and son and concluded that they were both unfit to stand trial. Both were committed to an asylum for the criminally insane.
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Sabine Alexander, the surviving female member of the family, begged the authorities to send her to the asylum with her brother and father, but she was rejected. She was instead sent to a secure convent, a place where her wish to be isolated from the 'impure' and 'Devil-owned' people who made up most of Society could be satisfied.
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