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#57 The Mosquito of Nuremberg

True Crime Guys

True Crime Guys

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In 1972, Kuno Hofmann was a deaf mute German labourer, a cripple who had spent nine years in mental institutions. According to the public prosecutors, he was perfectly sane and fully accountable for his actions. But his actions were…strange, by any normal standards. What sort of actions, you might ask? Oh just forced entry into graveyards and mortuaries near his home in Nurenberg, looking for freshly dead bodies. He chose his victims from death notices in the newspapers, and methodically made his way to a new corpse, stabbing into it with razor blades or a knife. Sometimes, he cut the head off, sometimes he drank the blood. From his prison cell, Hofmann explained, that he did it to make himself "good looking and strong”. Spoiler….it didn’t work. KEEP CREEPIN'! truecrimeguys.com Facebook Twitter/Instagram: @TrueCrimeGuys @AndImMichael Patreon.com/TrueCrimeGuys STICKERS CREEPER MERCH Creeper Galaxy Gear

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the True Crime Guys Podcast.

0:24.1

I'm Lord and I'm Michael.

0:25.1

Excited to be back in studio.

0:26.8

It's fall season finally.

0:27.9

My favorite season of all.

0:29.0

It is.

0:30.0

You picked a creepy one for this week.

0:31.0

I picked a creepy one.

0:32.0

I wanted an eerie one like slender man-ish, type vibe or it just puts you in that eerie

0:36.7

and it gives you that.

0:38.7

What better than a human mosquito?

0:41.3

Human mosquito grave robbing the son of a gun.

0:43.8

Sounds like a terrible 80s horror movie.

0:46.0

Right.

0:47.0

The most human mosquito.

0:48.0

I'm sure there is probably a weird, I don't know what, making buzzing noises like

0:51.7

the movie was called Blood Lust from 1977.

0:54.2

We'll talk about it in the case.

0:56.4

This guy's a grave robber.

0:58.6

Who eventually got tired of messing with dead bodies and decided to make-

1:03.0

He wanted some little freshers.

1:04.0

Some people dead himself.

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