Peter Luetgert

Peter Luetgert was a German-American immigrant best known for a notorious criminal case in 1897. He was a sausage maker in Milwaukee who murdered his wife and disposed of her body by boiling it down into sausage-like remnants, which he sold commercially. His actions shocked the public due to the gruesome nature of the crime and his attempt to hide it through industrial processes. Luetgert was arrested, tried, and sentenced to life in prison, and his case remains one of the most infamous in American criminal history, illustrating extreme criminal behavior and the prosecution of heinous crimes.