Most wanted serial killer on the run for 23 years is 'spotted on Caribbean island'
Serial killer Norman Volker Franz was jailed in May 1995. He managed to saw through bars in his cell two years later and has since reportedly been spotted in the Caribbean
Serial killer Norman Volker Franz was jailed in May 1995 after being convicted of murder.
Franz, 51, who was preparing to enter the Westphalia College Dortmund further education college, was involved in a criminal gang that attacked banks, smuggled Polish cigarettes and traded weapons.
After the gang was blackmailed by their cigarette suppliers, Franz and three other men lured some Polish men into an ambush and threw a grenade into their vehicle.
Shortly after, Franz was arrested at a toll booth in an attempt to reach France with his then 23-year-old girlfriend, who has been named only as Sandra C.
He was jailed for life and started serving his sentence in the JVA Hagen prison in Germany a year later, but soon escaped after sawing through the bars in his cell on March 11, 1997.
Five days after he escaped, Franz shot a security guard named Rudolf Tamm and stole a cash box with the equivalent of £4,280 in local currency from the Dresdner Bank in Weimar.
He also killed security guards Gerd Koch and Peter Seidel, who were about to stow £214,000 in an armoured car behind a supermarket in Halle four months later.
A state criminal police office investigator said: "The security guards had no chance. He planned to shoot straight away from the start."
Franz was arrested for the second time by German investigators in the Portuguese city of Albufeira in October 1998, where he had been working as an estate agent under the fake identity, Carsten Mueller.
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