A Mother’s Grief Turned Deadly Inside a German Courtroom
On March 6, 1981, a courtroom in Lübeck, northern Germany, became the setting for one of the most shocking acts of violence ever witnessed during a criminal trial. Marianne Bachmeier, a 33-year-old mother overwhelmed by grief, entered the courtroom carrying a pain no parent should ever experience—the loss of her seven-year-old daughter, Anna. What followed…