Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Killer Priest The Crimes Trial and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt by Mark Gado The Crazy Story Of Hans Schmidt, The Killer Priest. There are plenty of records that you might want to hold. Only athlete to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series? Sounds good. Only thespian to have won three Oscars for Best Actor? Awesome. Hans Schmidt holds one of those kinds of records, but it's not one you'd be jealous of. As The New York Daily News reports, Schmidt is the only Catholic priest to ever be executed. In fact, Schmidt was very much unlike any Catholic priest you've ever known or heard about, even if your opinion of priests in general isn't very good. His story shocked the entire country more than a century ago, and even looking back from the modern day it's difficult to believe he actually existed. If Schmidt was a character in a gritty thriller novel, people would say he was too over-the-top. But Schmidt did exist, and his story is one you won't forget. It involves literal blood lust, promiscuity, religious delusion, murder, and forbidden affairs — not to mention forgery, abuse, and creative interpretations of the Catholic Mass. In other words, here's the crazy story of Hans Schmidt, the killer priest. Hans Schmidt's family had a history of mental illness. Hans Schmidt was born in Germany in 1881 to Heinrich and Gertrude Schmidt. Heinrich worked for the railroad, and Gertrude was a stay-at- home mother to their ten children, and the family was well-regarded in the small town of Aschaffenberg. But as historian Mark Gado notes, the Schmidt family showed a lot of signs of mental instability. Most notably, Hans' mother, Gertrude, showed little capability for raising ten children more or less on her own. Heinrich was away a great deal, leaving it to Gertrude to take care of the household. She became depressed and began attending church services constantly, and when she wasn't at church she sat in her room reciting the rosary instead of cooking or caring for her children. And Heinrich had anger issues. A Protestant, Heinrich opposed his wife's Catholicism and would fly into terrible rages when he discovered she'd resumed attending mass when he went away on business trips. His rages prompted Hans to hide in his room. But as Gado makes clear, the history of mental illness in the Schmidt family went much deeper. Hans' great-grandfather was an alcoholic who suffered a mental break, his great-uncle, great-aunt, and cousin all committed suicide, and another cousin spent the last portion of her life in a mental institution. His parents were kind of crazy. Heinrich Schmidt was outwardly a well-respected member of German society. He had a good job with the local railroad and a well-tended property with a thriving garden that supplemented his family's groceries nicely. But Heinrich had a dark secret — a terrifying temper. He was a man of fixed ideas about the proper ways to behave, and his solution to any whiff of disobedience from his family was to physically beat them. As historian Mark Gado notes, whenever his son's strange behavior came to Heinrich's attention, he would beat the boy in an attempt to discipline him. And when his wife, Gertrude, continued to practice the Catholic religion despite his stern disapproval, he would beat her mercilessly to discourage it. Meanwhile, Hans Schmidt's mother was depressed and lonely and found solace retreating into religious fanaticism. She attended mass twice a day when her husband was away and spent much of her time in her room reciting the rosary. As reported by Hushed Up History, as Hans grew older, she would dress him in priestly clothes she made herself and practice the mass with him at a homemade altar they'd created. His nickname as a child was "The Little Priest" as a result. Hans Schmidt was a very strict—and very bad—Catholic. You might think that anyone who enters the priesthood must be a very religious person and deeply committed Catholicism — and you would be right. After a childhood spent dressing as a priest and practicing the Catholic Mass with his mother in her bedroom, Hans Schmidt duly entered the seminary to study for the priesthood at the age of 19. But as historian Mark Gado makes clear, Schmidt had some very strange ideas about what it meant to be a good Catholic. At a very young age, Schmidt began to explore his sexuality with both boys and girls despite the clear prohibition of the Catholic Church in such matters. In fact, Schmidt was bisexual and quite promiscuous his entire life, engaging in sexual affairs with men and women even after becoming a priest. As author Mark Grossman notes, he was having an affair with a man named Ernest Muret even after "marrying" a woman and fathering a child with her. Worse, he was also a pedophile. Historian Mark Gado notes that he confessed to being obsessed with the altar boys who assisted him and even confessed to having impure thoughts about them. And then there's the whole thing where Schmidt murdered someone, which is a very un-Catholic thing to do. As a child he was fascinated with human blood. There are often warning signs that someone is going to grow up to be disturbed. When it comes to Hans Schmidt, there were plenty of such signs. Schmidt exhibited a disturbing affection for human blood and suffering from an early age. As reported by The New York Daily News , Schmidt spent much of his childhood hanging around slaughterhouses because he found the blood and suffering of the animals to be arousing, and he even used human blood in strange religious rituals he invented. According to historian Mark Gado, he and another boy named Fritz would meet at the slaughterhouse and engage in masturbation together, and he began to kill small animals like chickens and rabbits for his religious rituals. His father would beat him when he was caught lurking around the slaughterhouse, but it never deterred him for long. Schmidt was often observed walking around at night, stopping suddenly and standing still for long periods, and frequently referred to hearing the "voice of God" in a very literal sense. As noted by Murder Revisited, Schmidt was obsessed with Catholic ritual from a very early age and liked to dress as a priest as a child, practicing the mass and other aspects of the religion with his mother. There were plenty of clues to Schmidt's mental instability. Hans Schmidt was arrested for forgery. Some criminals are satisfied to focus on a single specialty. Hans Schmidt was the sort of criminal who had a wide variety of immoral and illegal interests. Aside from eventually becoming a murderer and a very, very bad priest, he was also an accomplished forger. In fact, as historian Mark Gado reports, shortly before being ordained, Schmidt was arrested in Munich on charges of forging graduation certificates for students who had failed out of school. His father hired a lawyer for him, who successfully argued that Schmidt's family had a long history of mental illness and was therefore not responsible for his poor judgment. The argument worked, and Schmidt was sentenced to a month at a local sanitarium, and the church allowed him to continue his studies. Later, while serving as a parish priest in New York, Schmidt continued to dabble in forgery and counterfeiting. As noted by Hushed Up History, Schmidt was involved in a counterfeiting ring in Harlem making fake $10 and $20 bills — but he wasn't terribly smart about it, as Gado reports that his $20 bills all had the same serial number, making them very easy to spot and trace. He claimed he was ordained by a saint. By the time Hans Schmidt had completed his seminary studies and was ready to be ordained as a priest, his reputation was ruined in Germany. As historian Mark Gado recounts, because he'd already been arrested for forgery and had a reputation as a strange and unreliable man, his ordination was conducted by the bishop in private, with no witnesses or ceremony to mark what was typically a joyous occasion. In fact, as Gado writes, just about everyone who had any experience with Schmidt had serious doubts about his fitness for the priesthood. By the time the bishop ordained him in Mainz, Germany, he had a reputation for having sexual affairs with both men and women and was a frequent guest of the local taverns. When asked about his ordination, Schmidt often refused to speak about it, but he also claimed that the official ceremony didn't count — because his actual ordination had been conducted by Saint Elizabeth. "The real ordination took place the night before. St. Elizabeth, she ordained me herself," he said. "I was praying at my bedside when she appeared to me and said, 'I ordain you to the priesthood.' She then disappeared. There was light during her appearance." Hans Schmidt got creative with the mass. Despite his obvious mental health issues and problematic behavior, Hans Schmidt was ordained a Catholic priest in 1906 and was assigned to the small village of Burgel in Germany. This did not go well. As historian Mark Gado notes, Schmidt seemed disinterested in his parishioners and often skipped services altogether, which upset the community. Worse, as noted by The New York Daily News , Schmidt didn't stick to the Catholic script. As a village priest, he would often alter the mass to suit his own ideas, changing the rituals and the words according to his own ideas. This upset the villagers even more. As Gado writes, Schmidt's career was over just a few years after his ordination due to his eccentric approach to the mass, rumors of his many love affairs, and a habit of extorting money from elderly parishioners in exchange for promises of salvation. Realizing that he was unlikely to receive any further assignments in Germany, Schmidt traveled to America in 1909 using money from his father, where he repeated all the behaviors that had ruined him in Germany — bizarre variations on the mass, love affairs, and petty theft. He was once again moved from parish to parish until finally landing in New York, where he would commit his most horrifying and sensational crime. Hans Schmidt had an affair with a housekeeper. After arriving in America, Hans Schmidt served a short time at St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Louisville, Ky. As reported by Sword and Scale , Schmidt quickly got on the wrong side of the minister in charge in Kentucky and was forced once again to relocate. There are rumors that he was suspected in the death of a young girl and that he'd been caught running a counterfeiting operation in Kentucky, but those rumors were never fully investigated. Whether his rift with the minster was over crimes like that or simply a personal matter, Schmidt found his way to New York City and St. Boniface's parish where he met Anna Aumüller and Ernest Muret and began having love affairs with both simultaneously. Aumüller was an immigrant from Austria, a strikingly attractive young woman who worked at St. Boniface as a housekeeper. She and Schmidt began having an affair shortly after his arrival, and as historian Mark Gado notes they even got married, with Schmidt officiating at his own illegitimate marriage. New York Almanack reports that Schmidt likely knew the marriage wasn't legal but went through with it to placate Aumüller, who was unhappy with their illegitimate status. At the same time, as Gado notes, Schmidt began an affair with dentist Ernest Muret — with whom he also launched a fresh counterfeiting scheme. Schmidt felt very passionately about Muret, saying, "There was never a grown-up man I loved as I did Muret." Hans Schmidt claimed God wanted him to kill. As reported by New York Almanack, when the dismembered body of a young woman was found along the shores of the Hudson River in 1913, it was quickly determined that she had been pregnant — about five months along. When the police identified the victim as Anna Aumüller, the secret wife of Father Hans Schmidt, the motive for the murder might seem obvious — it's one thing for a priest to keep a secret lover. It's something else to have a child and keep your priesthood. But as reported by historian Mark Gado, Schmidt claimed that he'd been ordered to kill Aumüller — by God himself. He claimed to have been visited by Saint Elizabeth, who commanded him to make Aumüller into a "sacrifice." That sacrifice was exceptionally brutal — he knocked her unconscious and slashed her throat, then dragged her into the bathroom and set about dismembering her body and wrapping each piece in bundles of paper. Schmidt had studied surgery books and knew how to use a knife. Then he carried each bundle to the river, weighed it with stones, and tossed it in — presumably as Saint Elizabeth had commanded. He made an attempt to clean up the apartment but grew frustrated and left plenty of evidence behind, though he did burn the blood-stained mattress. The murder investigation was very efficient. Modern-day police investigations seem slick and efficient with their CSI-style technology and access to the Internet. But the New York City Police Department in 1913 did a pretty incredible job investigating the murder of Anna Aumüller. As reported by The New York Daily News , Aumüller's body was found cut up into several bundles — except her head, which was never located. This made identifying the body very difficult, but a sharp-eyed police detective noticed that one of the pillow cases used to dispose of the body had a tag on it. They found the shop where the linens had been bought and quickly found the apartment where Hans Schmidt had murdered Aumüller —rented out under his own name. As noted by Encyclopedia.com, the police found plenty of evidence of a crime there — bloodstains, the tools Schmidt had used to dismember Aumüller, and letters cluing them in to her identity. According to New York Almanack, when detectives initially arrived at the parish to confront Schmidt, he denied knowing Aumüller at all. When he realized the police knew he'd rented the apartment, he admitted he knew her but claimed to only be helping a woman down on her luck. His story was plausible enough that the cops left to work the case more. When they returned the next day, Schmidt almost immediately confessed, claiming that he'd been ordered to kill Aumüller by Saint Elizabeth. It took two trials to convict Hans Schmidt. The arrest and trial of Hans Schmidt was a sensation at the time — a Catholic priest accused of various sexual affairs and the murder of his mistress would be pretty big news even today, after all. But according to Psychiatric Times , Schmidt was confident he would be spared the worst and probably sent home to Germany because he was sure he would be found not guilty by reason of insanity. Schmidt played up his claims of being sexually aroused by human blood and being commanded to kill by Saint Elizabeth. Rival teams of mental health professionals argued over his sanity, but as Encyclopedia.com reports the trial ended with a hung jury because no one could agree whether Schmidt was truly insane or play-acting to avoid the death penalty. As historian Mark Gado notes, at the second trial a new piece of evidence changed everything — Schmidt had convinced Anna Aumüller to take out a life insurance policy worth $5,000, with Schmidt listed as the beneficiary. That convinced the second jury that he wasn't insane, and they duly convicted him of first degree murder in February 1914. Schmidt was sentenced to death. His appeals failed. After his conviction for the murder of Anna Aumüller, Hans Schmidt's attorneys appealed — and Schmidt unveiled a new version of events in an attempt to escape his fate. As related by historian Mark Gado, he now claimed that he wasn't at all insane and that Aumüller had died while undergoing an illegal abortion conducted by several acquaintances of his. He claimed that her death had shocked them all, and they had disposed of her body rather than face the consequences. He further claimed that he had hidden all of this initially because he wished to protect his friends. It didn't work. As noted by Psychiatric Times , the judge admitted that there was evidence that Aumüller had, in fact, undergone a botched abortion — but refused to order a new trial based on it. When Schmidt's lawyers tried to push the idea that his first two trials should be discounted because he was faking insanity, the judge rejected this because the jury, in finding him sane, had therefore made the correct decision. It took two years, but after exhausting his appeals, Schmidt, the killer priest, was led to the electric chair in February 1916 and executed. Download Now! We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Killer Priest The Crimes Trial And Execution Of Father Hans Schmidt Crime Media And Popular Culture . 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Just select your click then download button, and complete an offer to start downloading the ebook. If there is a survey it only takes 5 minutes, try any survey which works for you. Killer Priest: The Crimes Trial and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt by Mark Gado. Police Books. According to one reader of Killer Priest: The Crimes, Trial, and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt , “Killer Priest by Mark Gado is an electrifying story expertly told. Hans Schmidt, the only priest ever to be executed for murder in the U.S., had character flaws that surfaced during his childhood in Germany. He had no use for his brothers or friends, but became transfixed with religion and killing. When adolescent sexual fantasies become intertwined with images of death and slaughter, problems are almost certain to arise. As an introverted teenager, the intelligent and scholarly Schmidt drifted into ecclesiastical studies. However, the character flaws and sexual conflict deepened and he ran afoul of the law. He became a thief and a forger who was ostracized by the clerics that knew him. Gado's meticulous research traces Father Schmidt's twisted childhood in Germany, through his years at the seminary in Mainz, his flight from Europe and eventually his first clergy assignment in Louisville, Kentucky. A missing nine-year-old girl case raised questions at his parish and Father Schmidt suddenly leaves Louisville and heads for New York City. There, he secretly married a beautiful young woman in a ceremony he performed himself. When her dismembered body parts turned up in the Hudson River, a city became mesmerized by the spectacle of a Catholic priest arrested for a murder. and the possibility he was a serial killer! As a seasoned detective, Gado carefully lays out the investigation and the manner in which the detectives built the case against Schmidt. Once it got to court, Schmidt, ever the manipulator, attempted to hide behind the insanity defense - creating the disturbing risk that the killer could have been turned over to the custody of the Catholic Church. Gado's experiences in homicide and death investigation, his first-hand understanding of the criminal mind and his ability to dramatize a story so effectively combine to make Killer Priest an excellent read.” About the New Rochelle Police Department. The Town of New Rochelle established its first professional police department in the Spring of 1885. Up until that time, for almost two centuries, the community had employed constables to provide law enforcement services. The New Rochelle Police Department now employs over 250 personnel with 186 sworn police officers and features the latest development in law enforcement services including community oriented policing. The Department currently responds to close to 50,000 calls for service, investigates over 2,000 Part 1 crimes, and processes 3,000 arrests every year. In its history it has responded to and managed literally millions of police functions and events from simple traffic control business to standoffs with barricaded gunmen and multiple homicides. Mark Gado was a detective with the City of New Rochelle Police Department in New York for the past twenty-nine years. He was also a federal agent assigned to a D.E.A. Task Force from 1997 to 1999. During that assignment, he received the International Award of Honor in New Orleans, LA. Mark was also named Investigator of the Year 2000 and received dozens of other awards and commendations during his long police career. His the author of Killer Priest: The Crimes, Trial, and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt and Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press . According to the description of Killer Priest: The Crimes, Trial, and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt , “He was a Catholic priest and a killer. Hans Schmidt, ordained in Germany in 1904, arrived in the United States in 1908 and was assigned to St. John's Parish in Louisville, Kentucky. Arguments with the minister resulted in Schmidt's transfer to St. Boniface Church in New York City. There he met beautiful Anna Aumuller, a housekeeper for the rectory who had recently emigrated from Austria. Despite his transfer to a Church far uptown, Father Schmidt and Anna continued a romantic affair and, in a secret ceremony he performed himself, they were married. When he discovered she was pregnant, Father Schmidt knew his secret life would soon be exposed. On the night of September 2, 1913, he cut Anna's throat, dismembered her body, and threw the parts into the Hudson River. When the body was discovered, he was arrested and charged with the murder. A media circus ensued, as the New York papers became fascinated by the priest and his double life. After feigning insanity during his first trial, which ended with a hung jury, Father Schmidt was eventually convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He remains the only priest ever executed for murder in the United States.” According to the description of “ Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press , “During the 20th century, only six women were legally executed by the State of New York at Sing Sing Prison. In each case, the condemned faced a process of demonization and public humiliation that was orchestrated by a powerful and unforgiving media. When compared to the media treatment of men who went to the electric chair for similar offenses, the press coverage of female killers was ferocious and unrelenting. "Granite woman," "black-eyed Borgia," "roadhouse tramp," "sex-mad," and "lousy prostitute" are just some of the terms used by newspapers to describe these women. Unlike their male counterparts, females endured a campaign of expulsion and disgrace before they were put to death. Not since the 1950s has New York put another woman to death. Gado chronicles the crimes, the times, and the media attention surrounding these cases. The tales of these death row women shed light on the death penalty as it applies to women and the role of the media in both the trials and executions of these convicts. In these cases, the press affected the prosecutions, the judgments, and the decisions of authorities along the way. Contemporary headlines of the era are revealing in their blatant bias and leave little doubt of their purpose. Using family letters, prison correspondence, photographs, court transcripts, and last- minute pleas for mercy, Gado paints a fuller picture of these cases and the times.” According to a Choice review of Death Row Women: Murder, Justice, and the New York Press , “Using a small but rich data set to write about an obscure research topic, former New York police detective and federal DEA agent Gado provides insight into contemporary practices associated with punishment, media, and the way social institutions interact to justify capital punishment. He discusses in detail the stories of six women executed in New York's Sing Sing prison. Media accounts from the era in which these women were accused, tried, and eventually executed lead readers to question the media's true intent. Referring to headlines, selective facts, colorful nicknames, and wild exaggerations, Gado describes how these women, their crimes, and the state response were socially constructed. Media contributions offered in a competitive environment are contrasted with police reports, court transcripts, prison files, letters written by the condemned, photographs, and eyewitness accounts. Although Gado gives preference to this evidence, the media's role cannot be discounted. He raises gender issues when contrasting stories about the demonization of these women with the routine coverage of condemned men. Without providing answers, Gado's text highlights moral inconsistencies that many continue to confront when examining capital punishment. Highly recommended. General, undergraduate, and graduate collections.” Killer Priest. Tells the story of the first and only Catholic priest put to death in America for the murder of his pregnant wife (yes, wife!). Killer Priest Hans Schmidt. AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE CRIME OCCURRING INSIDE THE CHURCHKILLER PRIEST HANS SCHMIDTFor some people, the Catholic church has always been a place of respite. Author : Sarah Thompson. ISBN: 1089690096. AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE CRIME OCCURRING INSIDE THE CHURCHKILLER PRIEST HANS SCHMIDTFor some people, the Catholic church has always been a place of respite. A place to practice their faith, and to commune with God. For others, the Catholic church has always been at the center of conspiracy and secrets. The Catholic church has always tried to keep the scandals that fall under their watchful eye under wraps, and for good reason. Many of them are so horrific that people would demand an overhaul of the entire system, for the safety of the victims. Of course, the scandals and conspiracies of the Catholic church date way, way back. For some, they are much more recent: in the last hundred years, or so.Many people have different experiences with the Catholic church, that much is for sure. Despite the scandals, there can be no way to definitively say whether it's the church itself, or the bad apples that are drawn to it for the positions of power they can take up. For those who met with Hans B. Schmidt, a German Roman Catholic priest, their experience with the Catholic church would be their last. GOD TOLD ME TOGwen Hendricks was a seemingly normal Colorado housewife who began hearing voices telling her to kill her husband. With a childhood steeped in religious teaching, Gwen began keeping a journal of her daily conversations with God who she claims told her that she needed to kill her husband in order to obtain proceeds from his life insurance.MORMON KILLERSWith childhoods steeped in the teachings of the Mormon religion, both Israel Keyes and Arthur Gary Bishop would become some of the sickest serial killers in American history. Keyes criss-crossed the country during his reign of terror, killing both men and women. His true death count is unknown as he committed suicide before revealing any further information. Bishop was the archetypal child molester, luring young boys with promises of candy and toys. Like Keyes, his true victim count is unknown. Deadly Sins. DEADLY SINS is the chilling true story of Father Hans Schmidt, the enigmatic thirty-two-year-old Roman Catholic priest, who immigrates to America through Ellis Island in June of 1909, from the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, Germany. Author : Tony J. Caridi. ISBN: 057864942X. DEADLY SINS is the chilling true story of Father Hans Schmidt, the enigmatic thirty-two-year-old Roman Catholic priest, who immigrates to America through Ellis Island in June of 1909, from the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, Germany. Father Schmidt leaves behind his past transgressions, only to discover in America-new depths to which his depravity and inner demons will lead him. Surrendering to his deep-rooted licentious urges, the priest betrays his holy vows, begins a secret affair, and falls in love with the tempestuous Anna Aumüller, a nineteen-year-old housekeeper at New York City's St. Boniface Church rectory. Now pregnant, and scared, the priest's young lover threatens to expose his mortal sins, and more. Not only has Father Schmidt fallen from grace, he and his lover, dentist, Bruce Murrell are also at the head of a New York City counterfeiting ring turning out ten and twenty-dollar-bills. In a deranged dusk-till-dawn odyssey, the priest turns to past habits for a solution: bloody murder, dismemberment, and the cold-blackish waters of the Hudson River; as Anna's trust in Hans turns out to be lethal. The psychotic acts of this desperate killer on an early fall evening in 1913, lead New York City's Chief Inspector Joseph Faurot, clue by clue, to a Harlem church and Father Hans Schmidt. The priest's apparitions and crimes ultimately lead him to Old Sparky, the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison, and infamy, as Father Hans Schmidt becomes the only Catholic priest executed in United States history. Louisville s Alma Kellner Mystery. Killer Priest : The Crimes, Trial, and Execution of Father Hans Schmidt . Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2006. Hart, Joe. “Louisville's Church Cellar Fiend Becomes a Martyr in France.” Courier-Journal, November 29, 1936, 83. Huntington (IN) . Author : Shawn M. Herron. Publisher: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN: 9781439663998. Category: History. A chilling account of a turn-of-the-century child murder in Kentucky, the ensuing manhunt, trial, and verdict that remains questionable to this day. On a bitterly cold day in December 1909, eight-year-old Alma Kellner simply disappeared from the altar of St. John’s Church in Louisville. Her body was found months later near the site of the church, and news of the murder rocked the city. The manhunt for the suspect took Louisville police Captain John Carney eleven thousand miles across the country, and even to South America, to return the killer to justice. Author Shawn M. Herron details the fascinating story of a tragedy that still remains under a cloud of suspicion. Includes photos. The British National Bibliography. Author : Arthur James Wells. ISBN: UOM:39015066099196. Category: Bibliography, National. American Book Publishing Record. 152 ' 3097471 Killer priest : the crimes , trial , and execution of Father Hans Schmidt / Mark Gado . Westport , Conn . : Praeger Publishers , 2006 . p . cm . ( Crime , media , and popular culture , 1549 - 196X ) Includes bibliographical references . ISBN: UOM:39015066180392. Category: American literature. Dead Men Walking Volume 2. Some killers get away with murder. Author : Robert Keller. ISBN: 1720679096. Some killers get away with murder. Others pay the ultimate price. True crime stories of 50 American killers who were put to death for their horrendous deeds, including; Cameron Willingham: Monstrous father who set his house on fire and watched while his children burned. John Taylor: Callous Utah child killer who chose to be executed by firing squad. Father Hans Schmidt: The only Catholic priest ever to be executed in the United States. Mark Hopkinson: Sentenced to death for a bombing that wiped out an entire family. Larry Gene Bell: Deranged serial killer who enjoyed taunting his victims' families. Charles Brooks: The first US inmate to be executed by lethal injection. Wanda Jean Allen: Double murderer who gunned down her lesbian lover right in front of a police station. William Chappell: Vile pedophile who murdered three members of his juvenile girlfriend's family in an act of revenge. William Woratzek: Killer landlord who brutally murdered his disabled tenant. Carl Hall & Bonnie Heady: Killer couple who snatched a 6-year-old boy for ransom and then killed him. Plus 40 more sensational true crime cases. Scroll up and grab a copy today. The Age of Reason. It seems HIE does not see the killers all ; HE sees nought but the sparrow's fall , This figment of a thoughtless mind In folks who , though they see , are blind . . The next time that a Catholic priest denonunces therapeutic birth control ask him if he ever took an aspirin tablet to relieve a . unless it be those who have been fagrantly guilty of the adulterous act — such as Father Hans Schmidt who killed his . Army veteran and longtime detective dies of 9/11-related illness. Biden admin continues plan to transfer historic 9/11 cutter to Indonesia. Brooklyn street renamed for police officer killed by 9/11-related cancer. 'It's a sensitive subject': Owner insists 9/11-themed bar isn't in poor taste. Indonesia 'not interested' in historic Coast Guard cutter. An army veteran and longtime detective-turned true crime writer — who partook in the Ground Zero relief efforts — died following a long battle with 9/11-related illness, his family said Tuesday. Mark Gado, a Bronx man who later settled in the Hudson Valley, passed away Sunday at the age of 70. Gado, a detective for the City of New Rochelle Police Department for 29 years, was a first responder to Ground Zero on 9/11, and continued the rescue efforts until October 2001, his wife, Jill, told the Post. “He didn’t talk about 9/11. It was very, very traumatic,” Jill said over the phone Tuesday. The father of two sons and grandfather of four spent those weeks scouring through debris to recover bodies and parts, she said. “He gave them his life,” she said. “He didn’t have to go, [but] he saw a problem and he went. That was just Mark.” Jill recalled how her husband of nearly 50 years would work his shift for the police department and then go to Ground Zero, where he’d spend the night volunteering before sleeping in his van. “He would sleep in the car and then go back to work in New Rochelle,” she remembered, “and he’d do it again the next day.” After a series of misdiagnoses, doctors discovered cancerous tumors in Gado’s intestines about five-and-a-half years ago. The cancer eventually spread to his lymph nodes, liver and bones. Gado became a true crime writer later in life. He authored several books, including “Killer Priest: The Crimes, Trial, and Execution of Father Hans Schmid,” about the only Catholic priest to be executed for murder in American history. He was a proud Army combat veteran who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He also spent two years with the Drug Enforcement Agency, according to a biography on Crimescapes.com. “His biggest pride was his veteran background, and his Harley, and his tennis,” Jill said. “His kids were his biggest accomplishment.” In lieu of flowers, the Gado family asked that donations be made in Mark’s honor to the Wounded Warrior Project.