Peter Kurten

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Peter Kurten was a German serial killer who operated in the early 20th century. The press dubbed him as the Vampire of Dusseldorf because he experimented with drinking the blood from some of his victim's wounds. Kurten grew up in household filled with depravity, his father subjected the entire family to verbal, physical, and sexual abuse. These experiences would have a profoundly negative influence on his life.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Peter Kurten. He committed the majority of his crimes in 1929 when he terrorized the city of Dusseldorf, Germany. But his exploits were published around the world striking fear into all those who read about them. Kurten's childhood was so messed up that it's impossible to think that his need for sexual gratification through brutality didn't in part stem from his experiences.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast
0:05.7	Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases from the Idaho student killings the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga
0:14.7	Last year we also started a second weekly show
0:17.6	Shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like
0:22.6	We've covered the death of Princess Diana and unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood
0:26.8	The gruesome history of European witch hunting and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction
0:32.8	Whatever the case we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior
0:37.8	Like can someone give consent to be cannibalized what drives a child to kill and what's the psychology of a terrorist
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1:29.2	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 185 of the true crime all the time podcast
1:34.4	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime might Gibson. Give me how are you?
1:40.0	I'm good man. You gonna ask me how I'm done. How are you doing?
1:44.4	You don't have to is just uh, it seems kind of impolite not to well
1:49.6	You know we just did patreon we did so how are you know you are but you're right. How are you man?
1:56.1	I'm doing great. We're not gonna
1:58.7	Shoot the bull too much because we did just record a full patreon only episode on
2:04.0	Cordell Farrington and I talked a lot out of the Bahamas you did talk quite a bit it ran longer than I thought it would
2:11.3	You know for you those of you that are on patreon it came out last night
2:15.6	For those of you that are thinking about supporting the show now's a great time and
2:20.4	Gibbs honestly the amount of support that we're getting it blows me away
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