# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/egidius-schiffer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:48:25.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/egidius-schiffer"
name: "Egidius Schiffer"
slug: "egidius-schiffer"
description: "Leo Egidius Schiffer was a German serial killer, who was known as The Strangler of Aachen. Between 1983 and 1990, he murdered five girls and women between the ages of 15 and 31, abusing three of them sexually. His crimes were known as \"hitchhiker killings\" or \"Disco-murders\". In 1985, the programme Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst covered his case."
tagline: "German serial killer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1956"
deathDate: "2018-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             15.3265306122449
  historical:           5.574918666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius_Schiffer"
    title: "Egidius Schiffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "اجيديوس شيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius_Schiffer"
    title: "Egidius Schiffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B3_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ایگیڈیئس شیفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius_Schiffer"
    title: "Egidius Schiffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidius_Schiffer"
    title: "Egidius Schiffer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100971"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump