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Welcome to the serial killer podcast. The podcast dedicated to serial killers.

Who they were, what they did, and how.

I am your host, Thomas Weiborg Thun, and imagine if you will, their listener, Germany in the 1920s.

While the Allies of the West had had a decade of decadence and consumerism following their victory in World War I, Germany was left poor, desolate,

and hungry. Unemployment is rampant.

Hungry young men are struggling everywhere to find work in order to simply feed themselves and their families, and inflation is rapidly increasing.

In this depressive setting, a young man named Adolf Hannibal of only 17 years old, is sitting in the freezing waiting room at Hannover's train station.

He is sitting on a hard wooden bench, and despite the gloomy atmosphere, he is in a surprisingly good mood.

Most men his age are unemployed, but he has managed to secure an apprenticeship, and he's looking forward to once more sleeping in a warm bed with a full stomach.

Unknown to young Adolf, a stocky man of about 40 years of age is watching him from across the room.

The man approaches, according to later witnesses, and the teenager and him start a friendly conversation.

A few minutes later, they leave the train station, and no one ever sees young Adolf Hannibal again.

What is known is that he suffered the same fate, as at least 27 other young boys and men, between September of 1918 and June of 1924.

The youngest victim was a boy of only 10 years old, the oldest, no more than 22.

There are beaten or coerced into submission, sexually assaulted, suffered bites to the throat and murdered, before being cut into pieces and often eaten by the same man.

The killer has, as so many other serial killers before and after, many nicknames, but most recognize him as the vampire of Hannover.

His name was Friedrich Fritz Arman, and this is his story.

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