S1 Ep1: Joachim Kroll, The Man-Eater of Duisburg

What Makes a Killer

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Pedophile, rapist, murderer, and cannibal, Joachim Kroll is considered to be one of the most twisted serial killers in Europe in the twentieth century. Between the mid 1950s and the late 1970s, Kroll targeted women and children across West Germany, evading the authorities for years.

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0:30.8	What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences?
0:37.0	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:42.0	It's summer, 1976 in the industrial town of Duesburg, West Germany.
0:48.0	Joaquin Kroll is standing by his attic window, carefully scanning the playground below.
0:54.6	He fixes his eyes upon a neighborhood girl, four-year-old Marion Ketter.
1:00.6	A tingling feeling comes over him. He's attracted to the girl and decides to kidnap her at the next opportunity.
1:11.0	On July 3rd, Kroll lures the girl back to his home.
1:15.0	There, he sexually abuses her and kills her.
1:19.0	Days later, a team of detectives search for the missing girl.
1:23.0	One of them is Young Bird Yeagers.
1:26.0	When a four-year-old goes missing, the alarm bells go off everywhere.
1:31.0	Of course, you use a lot of personnel to try and find this
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