S2 Ep9: Pawel Tuchlin, The Scorpion

What Makes a Killer

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On May 31st, 1983, Polish police were dispatched to check out a supposed robbery. A neighbor had called when he realized his pig cooker was stolen . . .but police were well aware that the accused man, Pawel Tuchlin, was guilty of things that were far more sinister. For years, the man had been stalking women around Poland and attacking them with a hammer . . . and for years, police had done nothing to apprehend him.

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0:00.0	Get a Neff dishwasher for just 149 in Wrens famous winter sale, the Great renovation.
0:06.5	Off the replies when you buy five or more units, ends 10th of Jan.
0:10.0	What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences?
0:18.0	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:23.0	It's May 6 strongly advised.
0:30.0	It's May 6th, 1983 in the small village of Narcova, Poland. For nearly a decade, Polish women all around the city of Godance have been living in fear of a mysterious sexual predator who has been attacking women with a hammer.
0:42.0	Up to now, the attacks have been non-lethal, only assault,
0:48.0	until Yolanta.
0:50.0	The 19-year-old seamstress is on her way home on this spring evening, unaware that someone is stalking her in the shadows.
1:00.0	Suddenly, a person appears in front of her.
1:04.0	It's a tall man with brown, matted hair, sunk in cheeks, and a large nose.
1:10.0	It's clear what he wants.
1:12.0	He's an exhibitionist and often harasses women by showing off his genitals.
1:18.0	But Yolanda refuses his crude advances, which only makes him angry.
1:24.8	The man is determined to have his way, and so he reaches for a hidden weapon down his pants,
1:31.8	a large hammer wrapped in bandages.
1:35.0	He hits Yolanta with the hammer, subduing her
1:38.0	and then sexually assaults her.
1:41.0	Well, he would attack his victims quite savagely with a hammer and sometimes he'd
1:46.1	he completely obliterate their face. But the injuries from a hammer blow do more than just
1:52.2	to subdue her.
1:53.2	Yolanta dies from the awful trauma she sustains.
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