Tags: Criminal.
Norbert Poehlke Der Hammermörder (‘The Hammer-Killer’) was a German police officer who was found after his suicide in 1985 to have committed several bank robberies and murders. He was tagged ‘Hammer-Killer’ for his modus operandi of killing car owners and using a sledgehammer in subsequent bank robberies in which he would use his victims’ cars as getaway vehicles.