The Grandmother Who Murdered Her Grandson So That He Wouldn’t Grow Up In A Broken Family

Marianne Bordt and Heinz Bordt were a couple from Nufringen Germany.

In January 2010, they traveled to Georgia, United States, to spend the new year with Karen, their daughter and Camden Hiers, their 5-year-old grandson.

Camden’s parents, Karen and David, were computer engineers and divorced in 2006 when their son was only 18 months old. Since then, every year Heinz and Marianne spent 3 months visiting their daughter and grandson.

During this Christmas vacation, the grandparents went with Camden to St George Island in Florida to spend a few days.

There the little one had been loved by the neighbors of the area and spent his days playing soccer and building a sand fort. Both the grandparents and the child seemed happy so no one could suspect what was about to happen.

The facts:

The afternoon of January 5, 2010, Heinz went to buy food at a supermarket in the area, leaving Camden and his wife in the house they had rented.

Two hours later, when he arrived at the house, the man saw that the door was open. Suddenly Marianne appeared with a coat soaked in water and confessed something terrible to her.

According to her, she had tried to take her own life in the sea because she had drowned Camden, her grandson, in the bathtub of the house.

Immediately Heinz went to the bathroom and found the boy in the bathtub upside down so he immediately took him in his arms to his car forcing Marianne to go up as well.

Grandpa drove to a nearby fire station and during the trip he had to stop because Marianne was trying to escape from the car, something he didn’t allow.

When they arrived at the fire station, the little one had already died, and Heinz immediately handed over his wife to the authorities.

Marianne declared at that moment that she had taken her grandson’s life because she didn’t want him to grow up in a broken home.

The trial:

During the trial, Marianne’s defense lawyer said that she acted like this because of the mental problems she had carried since childhood, and that as she argued during the Second World War, Marianne fractured her skull when she was only 4 years old.

In addition, at that time she also witnessed how the Soviets took her father’s life, which led her to have mental problems throughout her life.

But David, Camden’s father, did not believe that his former mother-in-law was mentally ill since he had known her for years and never showed this type of problem.

“If she is guilty of this crime, then I want her not to be able to enjoy life, the same life she took from him, even if it is a terribly unfair treatment, since she has lived most of her life. If it is proven that she is guilty, I want her to be punished like no person has ever been punished, and that she can fully understand the extent and harm of her horrible crimes.”

For him, Marianne’s explanation of her actions didn’t make sense, especially because his son perfectly understood his parents’ situation and he liked having two houses, two game rooms and twice as many gifts for his birthday.

Two and a half years after the crime, 73-year-old Marianne Bordt was found guilty and sentenced to spend 21 years in prison.

David didn’t agree with this because although he didn’t want to, he didn’t want capital punishment, he did think that his ex-mother-in-law deserved to spend more time locked up.

Karen, Camden’s mother and Marianne’s daughter, never attended the trial since everything was very painful for her.

It is known that later he remarried and had a daughter.

Marianne is currently 85 years old and is serving a sentence in the Lowell state prison in Florida.

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Sources:

https://eu.newsherald.com/story/news/2012/09/24/1-15017/33956920007/