David Edward Maust

David Edward Maust
Background information
Birth name	David Edward Maust
Also known as	Crazy Dave
Born	April 5, 1954(1954-04-05) Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Died	January 20, 2006(2006-01-20) (aged 51)
Cause of death	Suicide
Conviction	Murder
Sentence	Life imprisonment
Killings
Number of victims:	5
Span of killings	1974–September 10, 2003
Country	Germany and USA
State(s)	Texas, Illinois, Indiana
Date apprehended	December 10, 2003

David Edward Maust (April 5, 1954 – January 20, 2006) was an American rapist and serial killer.

Early life

David Edward Maust was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania in 1954. His parents were George and Eva Maust. The surname Maust rhymes with "exhaust" and is of Amish origins.

Deeply troubled as a child, Maust was confined in a mental institution at the age of nine.^[1] As a young adult, he worked in construction for his uncle in Wrightsville, Georgia, and was a skilled worker, but was eventually fired after crashing a company truck. In 1971, at age eighteen, he enlisted in the Army. He completed Basic Training at Fort Lewis and AIT at Fort Ord, and in 1972 was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. He served as a cook, and was by all accounts an able serviceman. He was also a keen bowler, averaging scores as high as 297, and won numerous awards and money prizes in his Army bowling league. In 1974 he killed a 12 year old boy, James McClister, the child of American expatriates, and was court-martialed and convicted of manslaughter and larceny (he claimed that the boy's death was the result of an accident on a moped which he had stolen.) He was sentenced to four years of prison at Fort Leavenworth. Maust requested not to be paroled, but was released in 1977 despite his wishes.

Murders

Maust has been suspected or charged for five murders. Four of them have been committed within the United States, one of which occurred in the early 1980s, and three others happened in Hammond, Indiana, where he was caught after the remains of the victims' bodies were found under concrete in a residential basement. While he was in the United States Army, he killed at least one person in Germany. He had been considered mentally unfit to stand trial on multiple occasions.

An official biography about his life and crimes, Blood Stained: When No One Comes Looking, written by Dory Maust was released January 6, 2009.

Death

One Thursday Morning, Maust was informed by the Correctional Officers at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana that he was being transferred to the Indiana Department of Corrections to carry out his sentence. He was in the "OLD" part of the jail, segregated from other inmates, and in his own cell. Upon returning to his cell, the officers noticed David Maust was hanging from a sheet, tied to the cell bars. Several officers tried reviving him at his cell. He was then transported to the hospital.

Maust died at St. Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point, Indiana, 27 hours after the suicide attempt.

References

1. ^ Maust's troubled childhood led to murders, experts say / nwi.com

External links

Blood Stained: When No One Comes Looking

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Name	Maust, David Edward
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	April 5, 1954
Place of birth	Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Date of death	January 20, 2006
Place of death