serial killer who escaped from two prisons and has been on the run for 22 years has allegedly been spotted on the Caribbean holiday island of Curacao.Norman Volker Franz, now 51, was part of a vicious German criminal gang which robbed banks and smuggled weapons and cigarettes when he murdered his first victims.The gang fell out with their cigarette supplier and set up a meeting in a quiet street in Dortmund.
Franz approached their vehicle and asked them to roll down the car window. When they did he threw a grenade inside.One man died instantly.
A second man managed to flee but was caught and executed by being shot several times in the head. A third also got away but was blasted with a pump action shotgun, seriously injuring him.
Franz then tried to flee to France with his girlfriend but was arrested at the border.He was jailed for life but on March 11, 1997, he sawed through the window bars of his cell, climbed onto a roof with a ladder made of bucket handles and broomsticks, and slid down a drainpipe to the street below.
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