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"I loved her. Sacrifices should be consummated in blood."
On February 26, 1913, Catholic priest Hans Schmidt married Anna Aumuller in New York City — an act that wasn't allowed within his chosen profession. He rented an apartment for her in uptown Manhattan and planned to keep their relationship a secret; that is until she became pregnant.
Not wanting to lose his job, Schmidt brutally murder*ed his beloved with a 12-inch butcher's knife, sawed her head off with a hacksaw, and dumped her remains in the Hudson River.
Despite his lawyer's insanity plea resulting in a hung jury, Schmidt was sentenced to dea*th by electric chair in his retrial. To this day, Hans Schmidt is the only Catholic priest executed in U.S. history.
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