As if Berlin hadn't already suffered enough under the Hitler dictatorship and the war, the city is further plunged into fear and terror in 1940 by a serial killer. The unknown perpetrator cold-bloodedly rapes and murders several women along the S-Bahn route to Erkner. Horst Bosetzky recounts the authentic case of Paul Ogorzow, who has gone down in history as the Berlin S-Bahn killer. As his actions undermined the morale of the population, the police, under pressure from the Nazi regime, feverishly searched for the murderer. However, the unpredictable sexual offender, an employee of the railway and outwardly a respectable citizen, was able to carry out his crimes for over a year before being arrested. "Like a Beast" is part of a series of documentary thrillers that mark the literary peak of Berlin's successful author Horst Bosetzky. In these docu-crime novels...