The macabre story of Hans Schmidt, an ardent disciple of God!

Long before The Boston Globe shined a spotlight on an endemic pattern of child molestation in the Catholic Church, the wrongdoings of the clergy often went unnoticed or unpunished. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hans-schmidt

Reading that article headline, something was off, today we cannot solely place that shame rightly so on Catholicism. The Protestant movement is just as bad on the issue of child molestation. As we hear daily of child sexual abuse being committed by Protestant clergy, Pastors, Southern Baptist ministers, Jehovah Witness to Mormon Apostles. The only thing different between Catholicism and Protestantism in clerical sex abuse, is that Catholicism has been sexually abusing children for a far longer period.  From at least 306 CE, with the canon documentation from the Synod of Elvira, España.

The above article header concerned the criminal life of Hans Schmidt (b. 1881-d. 1916), murderer (serial killer), paedophile, infanticide (child killer), insurance fraudster, forger, philanderer, who illegal married one Anna Aumüller, and got her pregnant, who became one of his murder victims, and Catholic priest (ordained in 1904). From his first curate-ship in Germany, according to the Catholic hierarchy, Schmidt did not like authority, and he was moved to the US. in 1908, he was transferred to St. John’s Parish in Louisville, Kentucky, US. Schmidt bumped heads with Catholic leaders in Louisville, and he was forced to relocate to St. Boniface Church on the east side of Mid-town, Manhattan. In addition, we know that Hans Schmidt was having a homosexual relationship with a Dentist, Ernest Arthur Muret, who was also a forger.

The NYPD, on the arrest of Schmidt, did not ask the right questions, or attempt to find any evidence of Schmidt’s wrongdoings in Germany. Although the German Police wanted to talk to Schmidt about crime he may have committed in Fatherland/Deutschland.

Other Possible Crimes Committed by The Priest, Hans Schmidt.

Apart from killing his young, pregnant “wife”, further investigation revealed that Schmidt had a second apartment where he had set up a counterfeiting workshop. https://www.nytimes.com/1913/09/23/archives/schmidt-purposed-to-kill-for-money-approached-a-physician-with-his.html.

Authorities suspected Schmidt of as many as four other murders. He had been seen with a woman named Helen Green. Green left for Chicago the month before Anna’s murder, but had then disappeared. Police couldn’t find any traces of Green. When he moved to America, Schmidt was seen with another woman, whom he claimed was his wife. She also had disappeared.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Trunk_Dripped_Blood/7DpDDwAAQBAJ?hl=en.

Schmidt was suspected in the deaths of two children. The owner of the apartment complex where Schmidt was living said she sometimes saw him bringing a 5-year-old boy to his living room. Schmidt claimed the boy was his son. That boy has since disappeared. When the woman asked the boy for his name, he said it was August Van Dyke. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Trunk_Dripped_Blood/7DpDDwAAQBAJ?hl=en

Schmidt became an alternate suspect in the murder of Alma Kellner (age 9) whose body was found buried in the basement of St. John’s Church in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had worked. The body had been burned, but authorities suspected the killer had tried to dismember her. The janitor, Joseph Wendling, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder based on circumstantial evidence and bloody clothing found at his house.https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/04/archives/kellner-slayer-guilty-joseph-wendling-charged-with-the-girls-murder.html.

Upon the request of Alma’s uncle, Wendling was pardoned and deported to his home country of France in 1935. [Bovsun, Mara (April 11, 2021). “Justice Story: The cross-country search for the felonious Frenchman”. nydailynews.com. Retrieved April 1, 2022.]

The Catholic hierarchy’s reported distancing themselves from Schmidt’s crimes appears to be a cover-up, to hide the fact that the Church in itself has to answer. Why they move Schmidt across state lines, and from parish to parish, we know that Schmidt has many sexual preferences, from paedophile, bisexual, homosexual, to name just a few. History has shown that the Catholic Church has a pattern for relocating paedophile, and wrongdoing priests across state lines, and national borders. What do you say?

J.E. Jeanne p.p. Jero Jones.