Peter Neidermeyer

Serial Killer

Peter Neidermeyer and the Chicago Car Barn Bandits

Overview

Peter Neidermeyer, whose surname also appeared in historical records as Niedermeier, Niedermeyer, Neidemeyer and Neidermyer, was a member of the violent criminal gang known as the Chicago Car Barn Bandits. Alongside Gustave Marx, Harvey Van Dine and Emil Roeski, Neidermeyer participated in a series of armed robberies and shootings that terrorized Chicago during 1903. The young bandits targeted saloons, railroad facilities and a streetcar company office, frequently firing at victims with little or no warning. Neidermeyer is sometimes described as a serial killer, although the gang's crimes more closely resembled a concentrated robbery-and-murder spree. The killings were committed during separate criminal episodes over several months, and different combinations of gang members took part in different attacks. Contemporary accounts attributed approximately eight deaths to the gang as a whole. Neidermeyer was directly implicated in several of the robberies and was identified as the gunman who fatally wounded Chicago police detective Joseph Driscoll during the gang's final flight from authorities.

Formation of the Gang

Neidermeyer and his companions were young men from Chicago who had become involved in theft and other criminal activity before escalating to armed robbery. Neidermeyer, Marx and Van Dine reportedly served short sentences at the Chicago House of Correction after stealing lead pipe from a school in 1901. Instead of abandoning crime after their release, they acquired firearms and began planning robberies in which intimidation and sudden violence were central to their methods. The gang was sometimes called the "Automatic Trio" because its members carried semiautomatic pistols, weapons that were comparatively unusual and intimidating at the time. Emil Roeski participated in some of the crimes, expanding the group to four men, although all four were not necessarily present during every offense. Their willingness to shoot witnesses and employees transformed relatively small robberies into multiple homicides. ...

Confirmed Victims: (8)

Otto Bauder Age: (19), Date of Death: July 9, 1903

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