In an interview with Das Erste TV channel in 1995, Marianne confessed that she had shot Grabowski after careful consideration and to prevent him from spreading more lies about Anna.

On 17 September 1996, Marianne passed away at a hospital in Lübeck. She wanted to die in her previous home in Sicily but never got there.

Marianne was later buried next to her beloved daughter in a graveyard in Lübeck.

Marianne’s fate and case of vigilante justice is still debated. A large part of the population defended her act and saw it as a fair punishment for a sex offender who had already been convicted of child abuse on several occasions.

Others, however, thought that it was wrong of Marianne to take the law into her own hands. She should have left the verdict to the judge, the critics claimed.

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