Consider This a Divorce
A nursing student at Husson University in Bangor, Maine, was afraid of her estranged husband, and took out a restraining order against him to keep him away. University officials warned the man -- Horst Wolk, 45 -- that he was not welcome on University property and would be charged with criminal trespass if he entered their property.
On May 5, he allegedly did: police say Wolk drove onto campus and found his wife in her car. He rammed her car, they say, and then jumped out, knife in hand, and attacked the 34-year-old woman.
Other students came to her aid. One woman called 911, then ran to get campus security. Another had been shown some self-defense moves by her brothers, one a marine and the other a cop. In all, five female students jumped in to subdue Wolk and hold him until police arrived.
Wolk's mug shot shows injuries, but the women didn't inflict them: a witness says Wolk "was banging his head against the asphalt."
Wolk's wife decided to ask for a protection order after Wolk put a gun to her head and described "in detail" how he would kill her and dump her body in a landfill, she said. He pulled the trigger, but the gun was apparently unloaded.
"Then he put the gun down and told me he didn't need the gun to kill me because he could do it with his hands," she told the court in the hearing for the protection order. "His method for killing me was going to be him snapping my neck and that I had until 2 a.m. to live."
She noted Wolk, a German national, is a Holocaust denier, and had been trained as a sniper by the German army. He commonly choked her, and called her "American garbage," she said, and Wolk told her burial at a garbage dump "would befit me," the hearing transcripts show. She met him when she was in the U.S. Army, stationed in Germany.
"He said that he had prepared a black military footlocker in the basement for my body and was going to dispose of me that way while [our child] was sleeping," she testified. "He said he was going to take me out to some property in Stetson that had a landfill and bury the footlocker there. He said the cops would never be able to trace him because he would have burlap (jute) pieces wrapped around his boot which would leave no footprints." She moved out of the stalag -- er, their joint apartment -- in late April.
Not surprisingly, the "temporary protection from abuse" order was granted. A hearing was scheduled for May 13 to make the order permanent. After his arrest, Wolk told police he was following her so he could get evidence of her seeing a younger man that he could present at the hearing. He apparently didn't find any such evidence.
When his wife saw him in the university parking lot, she said, she "knew she was dead." Her fellow students saved her life, but still suffered stab wounds to her leg and neck. She was treated at a local hospital and released.
Wolk is being held on $50,000 bail, charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault. He faces up to 30 years in prison and a $50,000 fine on the first charge, plus up to 10 years and $20,000 on the second. His attorney is trying to get his relatives in Germany to help post his bail.
He can't raise bail yet? Good.
Source: Bangor Daily News
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Posted by Bob in Illinois on May 18, 2010:
Most states have a self-defense law that will have words to the effect 'a person has the right to defend themselves and others with up to and including the use of deadly force when the imminent threat of death or dismemberment is at hand.' Not knowing what her or his status is the fact that he had a gun suggests they had a legal right to own guns. And not knowing what the conceal/carry laws of Maine entail she could very well have used a gun in her defense and ended the problem right then and there.
I agree about the bail, I've seen people with lesser crimes get higher bail. If they go by what most states use he only has to post 10%, that means about $7000 to get out. On the other hand I believe in Alternative Punishment for all crimes committed here in the US. And they should only be carried out on American soil. An example is: A person that agrees with the opportunity would be taken to a remote location in Northern Alaska, shown on a map where he is (Point A) and told he has to travel to another location (Point B). Should he make it there he can go free and someone would be waiting there to provide him with transportation to anywhere in the world he wants to go. He will be handed a knife for his self-defense, nothing else except the clothes on his back, pointed in the right direction and released. Oh wait, I almost forgot, he will be informed that 5 highly trained well equipped professional hunters will arrive at the same location 30 minutes later. They will have paid a fee to hunt him down and try to stop him from making it to Point B. Of course they have high-powered rifles and maps and anything else they need to track him. Sounds like fun doesn't it?
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Interesting, but five against one hardly sounds sporting. -rc
Posted by Robert in Missouri on May 18, 2010:
Re the five to one odds being unsporting, I have to agree: In Wolk's case, they should be at least 20 to one, plus Wolk has to wear a one-piece day-glo orange coverall, and the hunters can have trained Rottweilers in addition to high-powered rifles.
Posted by Mike from Dallas on June 3, 2010:
What I'm wondering is just what kind of sweet talk he could have possibly used to get her to marry him in the first place.
And all those nice ladies, they just kept helping him back up to his feet, and the dumb klutz just kept falling face down again on the pavement.
On a serious note, glad to hear one of them did have some self-defense training. We show women how to turn a guy's knife on himself. She doesn't even have to touch it; just guide his wrist so he implants it into his own gut. (Here, hold this!") It's all leverage, no brute strength required.