When seeing photos of the hands of the German serial killer Fritz Honka, who worked as 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 until 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 seeing 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 nonempathic individuals I've ever heard of. He too made such a "good use" of his hands that they seemed to attain a life of their own, as if they steered him instead of him steering them when he went on one of his numerous murder sprees.
His fetish was the female neck and he really enjoyed strangling women. Most/many of 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 ordinary and anonymous hands. He appears to be a murder machine, whose sole thrill was sex, (i.e. rapes which he vehemently described as consensual), and the snapping of the necks of women.
Another killer - but not a serial murderer - is Susan Kuhnhausen, and she really did makeextremely good use of her strong hands.
In 2006 her husband, 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 opibion they were happy together, and when she was attacked by his hittman she kept asking him who had sent him. While asking that question 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
The main reason for her not just succumbing to the hitman was the skills she had got by working 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 to his hittman, but he sure was wrong.
I think that many women would be able to fend off some rapists as well as some murderers if they knew WHAT TO DO. Maybe women like Susan should give lessons, thus saving the lives of many other women?
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/
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