Joseph Kallinger Skill One Using Tech

Joseph &
Michael
Kallinger
 Kallinger was born Joseph Lee Brenner III in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in December 1937
 Kallinger was placed in foster care after his
father abandoned his mother in 1939
He was then adopted by Austrian immigrants
Early Life

Stephen and Anna Kallinger.
 During his time with his adoptive parents, he
was abused
 The abuse was so bad that at age six he
suffered a hernia
The punishments Kallinger endured
Early life

included kneeling on jagged rocks, being
locked inside closets, committing self
cont: injury, being burned with irons, being
whipped with belts, and being starved
 When he was nine, he was sexually
assaulted by a group of neighborhood
boys.
 As a child he was often very rebellious
 He often dreamed of becoming a
playwright
Teenage years:
 When Kallinger was 15, he began dating a

girl named Hilda Bergman, whom he met
at a theater
 His parents told him not to see her, but he
married her and had two children with her.
 she later left him because of the domestic
violence she suffered at his hands
 Kallinger remarried on April 20, 1958 and
had five children with his second wife.
 He was extremely abusive towards his
family, and often inflicted the same
punishments on them that he had
suffered from his adoptive parents.
Adulthood/Criminal Career
 Throughout the next decade, Kallinger would spend time in and out of mental
institutions for amnesia, attempted suicide and committing arson.
 Kallinger was first arrested and imprisoned in 1972 when his children went to the
police.
 While in jail, he had scored 82 on an IQ test and was diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia, and state psychiatrists recommended that he be supervised when
with his family.
 Upon release he took too violent crimes punishing people the way he was punished
 His first victim was known to be a young Puerto Rican boy named Jose who he and
his son lured to an abandoned factory and cut off his genitals
 Two years later, one of his children, Joseph, Jr., was found dead in the rubble of an
old building two weeks after Kallinger took out a large life insurance policy on his
sons.
Criminal Career Cont:
Ultimately his crime spree spanned for one year
Beginning in July 1974, Kallinger and his 15-year-old son Michael went on a crime spree spanning Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New
Jersey
Over the next six weeks, they robbed, assaulted, and sexually abused four families and murdered three people, gaining entrance
to each house by pretending to be salesmen
On January 8, 1975, they continued their spree in Leonia, New Jersey Using a pistol and a knife, they overpowered and tied up the
three residents.
As other family members entered the home, they were forced to strip and bound with cords from lamps and other appliances
This resulted in the killing of 21-year-old nurse Maria Fasching, the eighth person to arrive, when she reprimanded Kallinger and
he responded by slitting her throat.

Criminal Crime Cont:
While this was going

The neighbors saw her
on, one of the They hopped on a city
and called the police,
residents who was still bus and discarded
but by the time they
bound, managed to their weapons and
arrived the Kallinger’s
get outside and cry for bloody clothes
had fled
help
Josephs arrest
 Police investigated Kallinger after

gathering the bloody shirt and
eyewitness testimony that he and his son
had been seen in the area
 They soon found out about Kallinger's
history of domestic violence, Joseph Jr.'s
unsolved death, and a series of arsons
targeted against buildings he owned
 Kallinger and his son were arrested
on kidnapping and rape charges, and
eventually charged with three counts
of murder in New Jersey state courts.
 Kallinger pleaded insanity,
claiming God had told him to kill. He was
found sane, however, and sentenced
to life in prison on October 14, 1976.
Michaels Arrest
 Michael was judged to be under his

fathers control.
 He was sentenced to a reformatory
school
 Upon his release at 21, he moved
out of state and changed his name.
 His whereabouts have never been
made public, and is said to still be
alive today
Imprisonment
. Because of his
Kallinger made He then was A book was then The book then was
suicidal and violent
several suicide transferred to a written after an apart of a lawsuit by
behavior, he was
attempts, including mental hospital in interview was one of the victims
transferred to
attempting to set Philadelphia on May conducts with families which they
a mental hospital in
himself on fire 18, 1979. Kallinger won
Trenton, New Jersey.
Death
Joseph Kallinger died of heart failure on March 26,

1996 at SCI Cresson
He spent the last 11 years of his life on suicide
watch.
No further contact with his family or son Michael once
incarcerarted
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Joseph &

 When Kallinger was 15, he began dating a

to each house by pretending to be salesmen

he responded by slitting her throat.

While this was going

 Police investigated Kallinger after

 Michael was judged to be under his

Joseph Kallinger died of heart failure on March 26,

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