Lothar Kraftzcyk

Lothar Kraftczyk is a Czech psychopatchic killer who appeared in Kurt Wallander (2005-2013) -series. He was introduced first-time at Henning Mankell's novel Faceless Killer where whe killed the Johannes and Maria Lövgren with his Czech friend Andreas Haas.

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Lothar was the second antagonist of Henning Mankell's first novel. He killed the Lövgren's couple with her partner Andreas Haas. He got caught seven months later when bank clerk reconised them. Lothar and Andreas was same time at the bank when Johannes accidentally dropped off his paper where was his full-name, address and the sum whe raised from the bank.

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Wallander's team deals with a series of false alarms—until it becomes apparent that there is more to these seemingly harmless cases than meets the eye. Soon, the entire department is on the trail beacause Linda (Kurt's daughter) founds Britta Nyströms body at the apartment who made one false alarm.

Soon Wallander finds out that the Britta Nyström was daughter of Lövgren's couple. And then hell is out. Lothar kidnaps Jan Martinsson's 17-year old daughter, Therese, gets Linda Wallander blind - later kidnaps him too and stabs policeman Stefan Lindman.

Then Wallander gets to know real motive on why Lothar even did these horrible things.

That was beacause Lothar's daughter did a suicide four years after her dad has gone to jail. In her last letter she told that she doesn't want to live anymore.

Later Linda calls to Kurt and tolds him to go to big star at the phone book, that Lothar has marked. Also Martinsson gets same call from Therese. Kurt and Martinsson tries to fake that Paulina is alive and they call woman-police Jolanta with them. Jolanta speaks jugoslavian to Lothar and he noitces that she is definetly not Paulina and dump the elevator where Linda and Therese are waiting for their savers. Kurt and Martinsson release the womens from their ropes and Kurt immediately starts to chase Lothar.

Kurt finds Lothar's computer base and see Linda in survelliance camera record, and tries to speak to her with the microphone whice is broken.

Then Lothar catches Linda and puts hunting knife on her throat and asks on the camera: "Does this look good? Watch me. Does this look good?" Then Kurt shoots Lothar at the back and Linda is saved. That also means that Lothar is dead.