“Revenge mom” shot her child’s murder in the middle of his trial
After serving her time behind bars, Marianne emigrated to Nigeria and married a German teacher. In 1990, she got divorced and moved to Sicily, Italy.
Unfortunately, Marianne was eventually diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and moved back to her motherland and hometown, Lübeck.
In 1994, 13 years after her act, she gave a rare interview on German radio.
“I think there is a very big difference if I kill a little girl because I’m afraid I then have to go to prison for my life. And then also the ‘how’, so that I stand behind the girl and, strangle her which is taken literally from his statement: ‘I heard something come out of her nose, I was fixated, then I could not stand the sight of her body any longer,’” she said.
In an interview with Das Erste TV channel in 1995, Marianne confessed that she had shot Grabowski after careful consideration and to prevent him from spreading more lies about Anna.
On 17 September 1996, Marianne passed away at a hospital in Lübeck. She wanted to die in her previous home in Sicily but never got there.
Marianne was later buried next to her beloved daughter in a graveyard in Lübeck.
Marianne’s fate and case of vigilante justice is still debated. A large part of the population defended her act and saw it as a fair punishment for a sex offender who had already been convicted of child abuse on several occasions.
Others, however, thought that it was wrong of Marianne to take the law into her own hands. She should have left the verdict to the judge, the critics claimed.
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