{"id":521271,"date":"2026-03-05T23:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521271\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:29:11","slug":"today-in-history-march-6-i-did-it-for-you-anna-mother-shoots-her-daughters-murderer-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/521271\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in History &#8211; March 6: &#8216;I did it for you, Anna&#8217;: Mother shoots her daughter&#8217;s murderer in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year earlier, Marianne Bachmeier&#8217;s daughter Anna was abducted by Klaus Grabowski, a local butcher.<\/p>\n<p>He sexually assaulted and then strangled the seven-year-old before dumping her body on the shore of a canal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0ab354ef-c965-4fa6-8d5d-db79fc2f8035.jpeg\"   alt=\"Marianne Bachmeier shot her daughter's killer.\"\/>Marianne Bachmeier shot her daughter&#8217;s killer. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>His fiancee turned him in to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Grabowski was a previously convicted sex offender who had agreed to a chemical castration several years earlier in exchange for leniency for a previous crime.<\/p>\n<p>But with the court&#8217;s permission, he reversed the castration with hormone therapy.<\/p>\n<p>On trial for Anna&#8217;s murder, Grabowski said he strangled her after the seven-year-old blackmailed him.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmeier was incensed with the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmeier smuggled a handgun into a courtroom in Lubeck on the third day of the trial.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/4884ca04-1858-4153-b67b-8f73c46a984b.jpeg\"   alt=\"Klaus Grabowski murdered a seven-year-old girl.\"\/>Klaus Grabowski murdered a seven-year-old girl. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>She shot Grabowski six times, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did it for you, Anna,&#8221; she said as she lowered her gun and surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to shoot him in the face. Unfortunately, I hit him in the back. I hope he&#8217;s dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the people of Germany sided with Bachmeier after her act of vigilante justice.<\/p>\n<p>But opinion turned against her when tabloids detailed instances of her being a neglectful mother.<\/p>\n<p>In the trial, Bachmeier&#8217;s lawyers argued the killing was not premeditated.<\/p>\n<p>She was sentenced to six years in prison and freed after three.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e437f330-bad9-4a7e-84ee-07075f029db1.jpeg\"   alt=\"Marianne Bachmeier was jailed for manslaughter for killing her daughter's killer.\"\/>Marianne Bachmeier was jailed for manslaughter for killing her daughter&#8217;s killer. (Nine Archives)<\/p>\n<p>After her conviction, she revealed on a television talk show that the killing was not done on the spur of the moment and she had planned it in advance.<\/p>\n<p>A friend later revealed she had practised the killing in the basement of her home.<\/p>\n<p>Bachmeier died of pancreatic cancer in 1996, aged 46.<\/p>\n<p>She is buried next to her daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year earlier, Marianne Bachmeier&#8217;s daughter Anna was abducted by Klaus Grabowski, a local butcher. 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