Hands of the Killer

 

When seeing the hands of the German the serial killer Fritz Honka, who was also a security guard at a Shell gas station, one almost exclaims a heart-felt "yes, of course, that's how the hands of a notorious murderer look. Those uncanny, but sufficient-looking hands were Honka's murder-tools and thus bore witness to how he (1970-1975), not only preyed upon elderly and more or less alcoholic women, but also kept their dead bodies in the walls of his apartment after killing them. The stench of their rotting bodies told the tale of their death. The man who took their lives was sentenced to 15 years in a psychiatric facility. After his release, he assumed a new identity, calling himself Peter Jensen, but in 1998 he died from excessive drinking and smoking. 

When I see the photos of Honka's murder hands I come to think of an American serial killer, Samuel Little, who strikes me as one of the most uncanny and unfeeling individuals I've ever heard of. He too made such a "good use" of his hands that they seem to attain a life of their own, as if they steered him and he not steering them when he went on a murder spree. 

His fetish was the female neck and he really enjoyed strangling women. Most/many for his victims were sex workers which made it easy for him to get away with murdering at least 93 women over a time period of ca. 30 years. He had a certain way of manipulating his victims into letting him "touch and feel" their neck, pretending it was some kind of sexual foreplay. Those who have written about his method has stressed the fact that his hands were uncommonly strong and agile: They noticed them as something special and not only "anonymous hands". He appears to be a murder machine, whose sole thrill is sex, (rapes that he vehemently protests are consensual), and the snapping of those necks of women.

Another killer - but not a serial murderer - is Susan Kuhnhausen, and she really did make good use of her strong hands.

In 2006 a married man in Origon, Mike Kuhnhausen, hired a hittman to kill off his 51-year old wife, emergency room nurse Susan. They had been married for almost 18 years, and she doesn't seem to have had any idea of his plans to kill her. In her understanding they were happy together, and when she was attacked by his hired hittman she kept asking him who had sent him. At that time she had a firm grip of the hittman's neck, choking him, and eventually killing him, bare-handed, in self-defence. 

Happier days with Mike

One of the main reasons for she, and her hands, being this strong was her job as an emergency room nurse. In her job she had had to fight off frantic patients and she had a good grip on what to do in such situations. Mike may have taken for granted that she, being a woman, couldn't compete in physical strength with his hittman, but he was wrong. I think that many women would be able to fend off some rapists as well as murderers if they knew WHAT TO DO. Maybe women like Susan should give lessons, thus saving many other women?

 

https://www.multco.us/multnomah-county/news/susan-walters-who-fended-hitman-provides-guidance-multnomah-county-crime 

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/susan-kuhnhausen 

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2014/04/woman_who_fatally_strangled_hi.html 

 

https://slatereport.com/news/she-met-a-man-online-and-ended-up-taking-down-an-active-serial-killer/  

 

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/author-jillian-lauren-confronts-serial-killer-samuel-little-in-new-doc 

 

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