The vendor tells one of his friends, who follows Beckert and sees him inside a shop with the girl. He encounters another girl and befriends her, but the blind vendor recognizes his whistling. īeckert sees a young girl in the reflection of a shop window and begins to follow her, but stops when the girl meets her mother. Meanwhile, the police search Beckert's rented rooms, find evidence that he wrote the letter there, and lie in wait to arrest him. They decide to organize their own manhunt, using beggars to watch the children. They stage frequent raids to question known criminals, disrupting underworld business so badly that Der Schränker (The Safecracker) calls a meeting of the city's crime lords. Inspector Karl Lohmann, head of the homicide squad, instructs his men to intensify their search and to check the records of recently released psychiatric patients, focusing on any with a history of violence against children. Under mounting pressure from the Prussian government, the police work around the clock. Beckert sends an anonymous letter to the newspapers, taking credit for the child murders and promising that he will commit others the police extract clues from the letter, using the new techniques of fingerprinting and handwriting analysis. In the wake of Elsie's disappearance, anxiety runs high among the public.
Elsie's place at the dinner table remains empty, her ball is shown rolling away across a patch of grass and her balloon is lost in the telephone lines overhead. He offers to buy her a balloon from a blind street-vendor and walks and talks with her.
She is approached by Hans Beckert, who is whistling " In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg. Little Elsie Beckmann leaves school, bouncing a ball on her way home.
A wanted poster warns of a serial killer preying on children, as anxious parents wait outside a school. A woman sets the table for lunch, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. In Berlin, a group of children are playing an elimination game in the courtyard of an apartment building, using a chant about a murderer of children.
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