Marianne was completely calm and had no intention of running away. Judge Günther Kröger, who took Marianne aside and spoke with her for a while, said she said the following: “I wanted to shoot him, looking him in the eye, but I shot him in the back. I hope he’s dead.”
She later admitted that she wanted to silence the criminal by any means necessary and “prevent him from saying unpleasant things about my daughter.”
The trial against Marianne Bachmeier herself began on November 2, 1982. She was initially charged with first-degree murder, for which she faced life imprisonment.
However, on March 2, 1983, Marianne was charged with manslaughter and illegal possession of a firearm. She was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released three years later in 1985. At the time, she was 35 years old.
