233: Episode 233 - Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

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True Crime

4.5 • 18.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the world of true crime, the media is often accused of inaccuracy, dramatisation, and sensational headline writing, but there's an exception to every rule. Never has a killer fitted their moniker more than Peter Kürten, 'The Vampire of Düsseldorf'...

Kürten may well have had a reflection and he may not have hung from the ceiling like a bat, but in one very key aspect, he was every bit Deutschland's Dracula.

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Sources:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5153176-the-sadist

https://allthatsinteresting.com/peter-kurten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gDWZz7oi0

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