Frederick Mors: The Serial Killer of New York
Background
Frederick Mors, born Carl Menarik on October 2, 1889, in Vienna, Austria, was an Austrian serial killer who immigrated to New York City in June 1914. He gained employment as a porter at the German Odd Fellows' Home in Unionport, New York (now the Bronx), through the Immigrant Free Employment Bureau. The home housed 250 orphans and 100 elderly men and women.
Crimes
In the four-month period from September 1914 to January 1915, 17 residents—an unusually high number—died at the Home. Fearing foul play, the administration called the police to investigate. Mors had used arsenic and chloroform to murder at least eight of the elderly residents. He later claimed he was "putting them out of their misery."
Victims
- Carl Hitzel, 78, by administering morphine
- Henry Haensel, 67, by giving arsenic
- Carl Garf, 65, by giving arsenic
- Mrs. Katherine Piazza, 75, by giving chloroform
- Mrs. Frederick Drey, 75, by giving chloroform
- Mrs. Elizabeth Hauser, 70, by giving chloroform
- Henry Horn, 68, by giving chloroform
- Ferdinand Scholtz, 77, by giving chloroform
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