Photo Gallery An Unlikely Murderer
Sabine R. fired this Walther GSP .22 Long Rifle. Chief Prosecutor Dieter Inhofer said she had owned the gun legally.
Mourners place candles near the crime scene in Lörrach in memory of the victims.
A policeman lays a sunflower outside the building in which Sabine R. murdered her husband and son.
The rampage started at an apartment near the St. Elisabeth Hospital. After Sabine R. had killed her husband and son, she poured highly flammable nitrocellulose paint thinner around the flat and set it alight.
The fire severely damaged the apartment block and left 15 people injured by smoke inhalation.
Sabine R. had only moved into the ground floor apartment on Markus-Pflüger Straße a few weeks ago. Unconfirmed media reports quoted neighbors as saying the husband had a new partner. An unnamed neighbor told Bild newspaper: "She seems not to have got over the fact that the son lived with the father. She had lost everything: her husband, her child and her home."
Ernst Barth shows his head wound to a photographer. The 69-year-old was injured when he was grazed by a bullet in front of the St. Elisabeth hospital.
Sabine R. walked up to the gynaecological ward on the first floor of the hospital where a male nurse was just serving dinner to the patients. She killed him by stabbing him repeatedly in the chest and firing three rounds into his head and neck.
Lörrach Mayor Gudrun Heute-Bluhm gave an interview on the street.
The incident is that much harder to comprehend because as a woman and a lawyer, Sabine R. doesn't seem to fit into any established pattern of random killers.
