David Edward Maust

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David Edward Maust Biography

Serial killer who murdered at least 5 people, encasing three of them in concrete.

He was put in a mental institution by his mother at the age of nine.

He hanged himself while in prison.

He never married.

He served in the U.S. Army, as did legendary singer Elvis Presley.

David Edward Maust was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania in 1954. His parents were George and Eva Maust. The surname Maust is of Amish origins. His father divorced and left his mother when Maust was 7. Maust’s father was orphaned at the age of 12, and was raised in foster homes. According to records his mother was mentally ill and diagnosed as psychotic.

David Edward Maust (April 5, 1954 – January 20, 2006) was an American serial killer of male teenagers age 13 to 19. His murders occurred in West Germany (now Germany) and the U.S. In 1994 he was sentenced to 35 years in prison, he was released under probation in June 1999. Once released and off of probation he continued murdering, leading to his final arrest and sentencing to three life terms without the possibility of parole.

Maust tried to return home to his mother, but she did not want him to return and in fact threatened him with a knife. His mother took him to an Army recruiter and in 1971, at age eighteen, he enlisted in the Army. He completed Basic Training at Fort Lewis and AIT at Fort Ord, and in 1972 was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. He served as a cook, and was by all accounts an able serviceman. He was also a keen bowler, averaging scores as high as 297, and won numerous awards and money prizes in his Army bowling league.

In 1974, while stationed in Germany he killed a 13-year-old boy, James McClister, the child of American expatriates, and was court-martialed and convicted of manslaughter and larceny (he claimed that the boy’s death was the result of an accident on a moped which he had stolen.) He was sentenced to four years of prison at Fort Leavenworth. Maust requested not to be paroled, but was released in 1977 despite his wishes.

In 1979, in his apartment in Chicago, Maust stabbed a friend while he was sleeping. He was tried for attempted murder.

When I got locked up in the Army, and then especially when I got locked up in 1981, I knew I should never be let out again. I [didn’t] know how to act around other people and I was never taught how to make friends and keep them. When an inmate says he [doesn’t] want out, I hope that somebody listens.

In 1981, Maust decided to find and kill the 13-year-old who had molested him at the children’s home. He was unable to find the boy, but encountered 15-year-old Donald Jones and decided to kill him instead. Jones was eventually drowned in an Elgin quarry. In Texas, this same year Maust stabbed a 14-year-old boy, was arrested, and sentenced to 5 years for “causing bodily injury to a child.”

In 1982, while in jail in Texas, Maust was extradited to Illinois for the Jones murder. A Cook County sheriff’s police officer wrote on a cover sheet of the extradition papers sent to Texas: “Bad Guy. Gacey Type.” Originally found unfit to stand trial, he was held in mental health facilities. Ultimately, after those hospitalizations and roughly ten years in jail awaiting trial, Maust pleaded guilty in 1994 and was sentenced to 35 years. However, he received credit for the 12 years he was held and time off for good behavior; thus he served 17 years altogether and was released in 1999.

In 2001, Maust hit an acquaintance six times in the back of the head with a metal pipe in another attempted murder, but he was not prosecuted because the acquaintance, although he reported the incident to police, did not want to pursue prosecution.

On 12 December 2003, Maust was arrested for the strangling death of James Raganyi, 16. Raganyi’s body was found encased in concrete in Maust’s basement in Hammond, Indiana. He was later charged with the deaths of Michael Dennis, 13, and Nick James, 19, similarly wrapped in plastic and encased in concrete. In November 2005, he pleaded guilty for the three murders and was sentenced to three life terms.

In January 2006, about a month after his last sentencing, Maust committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell. Jail workers found a suicide note in his cell in which he confessed to five killings, and apologized to the victim’s families. Maust was 51 years old.

In January 2006, about a month after his last sentencing, Maust committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell. Jail workers found a suicide note in his cell in which he confessed to five killings, and apologized to the victims’ families. Maust was 51 years old.

The Indiana Code Section 11-8-8 was enacted in July 2006, as of this date there are four types of offenders:

“Indiana Code Section 11-8-8-7 provides that sex or violent offenders must register with local law enforcement authority. Indiana Code Section 11-8-8-5(18) defines a “sex or violent offender” to include a person convicted of murder.”

The Maust case helped lead Indiana public officials to pursue a state amendment requiring for a violent offender registry for convicted murderers. If available, the registry might have reduced the chance of Maust’s continuance of murder upon release .

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