Thomas "Pinocchio" Rung (born 3 January 1961) is a German serial killer, who is considered to be the most dangerous of his kind since the end of the Second World War.
The stepmother, Aunt Hilde, "sat on a throne, she was the judge" and ordered punishments that the father performed.
For Rung's first murder, 23-year-old Michael Mager briefly confessed to the police, was falsely sentenced in 1984 and imprisoned for six years.
In 2003 Rung once again injured a prisoner - this time lethally - the district court of Berlin sentenced him to 10 more years and second preventative detention for attempted manslaughter in 2004.
Rung was first detained in Berlin-Moabit, because Tegel Prison refused to take him in again, and was then transferred to JVA Celle in Lower Saxony.