Gabor Sprungk

Gabor Torsten Sprungk (1971 – January 9, 2018), known as The Mansfeld Double Murderer , was a German serial killer and rapist who killed an elderly woman and her doctor in Mansfeld in 2008, and was later linked to the earlier murder of a woman he had dated the year prior. Deemed as the most dangerous prisoner in Saxony-Anhalt, he killed himself in prison in 2018.

Early life and crimes Gabor Sprungk was born in 1971 in the hamlet of Friedrichrode, located within Bräunrode, East Germany. Little is known about his early life, but he began committing crimes at age 16 and would be repeatedly arrested for rape, sexual assault, possession of a gun, driving without a license and embezzlement. Sprungk is known to have served in the French Foreign Legion at one point, but his activities during this time period are unknown.

Following the German reunification, Sprungk committed a series of rapes and brutal assaults against prostitutes, for which he was convicted and ordered to serve 8 years imprisonment at a prison in Halle. After serving out the sentence in full, he was released from prison and moved to Altstätten, Switzerland, where he lived under an alias.

On the night between June 23 and 24, 2007, Sprungk convinced Kämpf-Riberio to accompany him on a supposed trip to Mansfeld. Instead of going to the town, however, he drove to an isolated section of the Wolfsgrube forest, tied her to a tree and suffocated her with a plastic bag. After stealing her personal items and money, Sprungk buried Kämpf-Riberio's body nearby and left. Suspecting that these probably belonged to a murder victim, the local prosecutor's office ordered that DNA be extracted and compared with any relevant missing persons cases. He claimed to spend most of his time writing stories about the Harz mountains and hiking with his dog, but in December 2017, a routine check of the device led to the discovery of videos containing child pornography. His death was met with relief from a majority of the residents of Mansfeld, most of whom said they were happy he could never harm another human being ever again.