Absurd ⚫ (TV Rep.) Murder of Sandro Beyer
About the Sondershausen murder – The perpetrators, Hendrik Möbus, Sebastian Schauseil and Andreas Kirchner were founders of the later NSBM band Absurd. The victims was 15-year-old Sandro Beyer. Due to the interests of the members, the act was referred to in the media as “satanic”.
Cassette cover of Absurd’s Thuringian Pagan Madness showing the grave of the murdered Sandro Beyer.
Murder in SondershausenIn 1993 the three band members of Absurd murdered their classmate, a 15-year-old boy named Sandro Beyer. The case made headlines all over Germany, and was often presented as a “Satanic murder” in the press, given the identification of the trio with Satanism. However, a closer look at the case indicates that the three had killed Beyer because he knew too much about the group’s activities, and the group saw no other way out than getting rid of their classmate. The murder followed no Satanic ritual, they simply strangulated Beyer to death with a power cable and buried him at a nearby construction site. Investigator’s later found a list, in which Beyer had collected names of movies the group has watched, most of them either censored or subject to the protection of minors, such as splatter and horror movies, or movies glorifying the NS era. Möbus was sentenced to eight years in juvenile court for a collectively planned murder, deprivation of liberty and coercion. He first spoke about the murder in an exchange of letters with the American journalist Michael Moynihan, in which he described Beyer as a “people’s parasite” and spoke about the neo-Nazi sentiments he had developed during his imprisonment.
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