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What Makes a Killer

S5 Ep2: Karol Kot, the Vampire of Krakow

What Makes a Killer

Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

February 13th, 1966, a group of young children spent the afternoon sledding down the snow-covered hills in Krakow, Poland but one 19-year-old was looking for a very different kind of thrill.

As the day drew to a close, 11-year-old Leszek Calek began walking home… alone! A strange man emerged from the shadows and approached the young boy with a bayonet. Leszek was violently stabbed eleven times by a young man who was labeled by the press as the “Vampire of Krakow.”

Original music by Daniel Birch, Kai Engel, JOHNWALLY, klankbeeld, Ben Krejci, and Lee Rosevere.

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion

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is strongly advised. February 13, 1966. A group of young children spent the afternoon

0:48.9

sledding down the snow-covered hills in Krakow, Poland. But one 19-year-old was looking

0:55.1

for a very different kind of thrill. This is somebody who chose to do evil. He knew the difference

1:00.8

between right and wrong and yet he chose to harm others anyway. Press called him a vampire

1:07.1

and a beast. People were really really afraid. As the day drew to a close, a 11-year-old,

1:13.2

Lesick Taylor began walking home alone. A strange man emerged from the shadows and approached the

1:19.7

young boy with a bayonet. Lesick was violently stabbed 11 times. He was completely lacking in

1:27.1

remorse and he was so young to completely lack a conscience. Be a kind of fully form killer

1:33.0

before he's even age 20. He's already shocking. After he would kill, he took great pleasure in

1:39.5

licking an eye and tasting the blood. This aspect of the vampirism is something that has

1:47.1

made his crimes sufficiently unique. This is what makes a killer, a series that chronicles

1:53.9

the lives and crimes of the world's most notorious killers. I'm your host, Jennifer Natoso.

2:00.6

In every episode, we'll trace a killer's origins, examine their behavior and follow their path

2:06.0

to bloodshed. In this episode, we'll discuss Carol Caut, the vampire of Crackout.

2:25.4

Carol Caut was born December 18, 1946 in Crackout, a southern city in Poland near the border

2:32.7

of the Czech Republic. Criminologist Dr Elizabeth Yardley and author Mark Desrader discuss his

2:39.1

seemingly happy and healthy home. His father worked as an engineer, his mother was a stay-at-home

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