The Polaroid Killer: Volker Eckert: Day 6: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

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Summary

It is day six of our 12 Nightmares Before Christmas, and we are headed to Germany. After World War II, Germany was divided into four Allied occupation zones, with the Soviet Union controlling East Germany and East Berlin, while the United States, France, and the U.K. managed Western Germany and West Berlin. By 1949, Europe had transformed dramatically, symbolized by the creation of two Germanies. Initially, movement between the two regions was unrestricted, but as East Germans fled westward in droves, the border was sealed in 1961, culminating in the Berlin Wall, a defining emblem of the Cold War. In Plauen, East Germany, young Volker Eckert grew up in a Communist city near the Czech border. As a child, Volker developed a fixation on hair, playing with his sister’s dolls and mother’s wigs, which sparked sexual fantasies he kept secret. By age 14, his obsession with hair escalated into violence. On May 7, 1974, he strangled his classmate Sylvia Unterdörfel in her home under the pretense of needing help with homework, driven by an uncontrollable urge to feel her hair. Fearing exposure, he killed her and staged her death as a suicide. Sadly, Sylvia would not be his only victim. In fact, there would be many more.

Join Jen and Cam of Our True Crime Podcast on this episode entitled ‘The Polaroid Killer: Volker Eckert.’

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Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint

Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8BLkEZ7zk0&ab_channel=Mia%27sRealityChannel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Eckert

https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/eckert-volker.htm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/07/crime

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/01/germany.gilestremlett

https://web.archive.org/web/20120103001441/

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11264.shtml#ixzz5TG24bAlw

https://www.novinite.com/articles/73211/Bulgarian+Victim+of+German+Sex+Killer+was+Pregnant

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/23/germany.gilestremlett

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

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0:00.0	This is Edward October, host of October Pod on YouTube.
0:05.1	Hear that jingle jingle?
0:07.5	It could be Chris Kringle, or a home invader looking for an open window,
0:13.0	a jilted lover looking for revenge, or a disgruntled coworker hoping to spike your eggnog with arsenic.
0:20.3	The girls of our true crime podcast are always on Santa's nice list.
0:24.6	But the crimes they discuss are very naughty indeed.
0:28.6	The listener discretion is advised.
0:31.6	The listener discretion is advised. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, hi, Kim.
0:53.3	How you doing?
0:55.8	Day six.
0:56.6	It's that time of the year.
0:59.1	Halfway through.
1:00.7	Happy holidays.
1:01.4	Happy holidays.
1:02.6	Halfway through.
1:03.5	You know, got all their stuff done and they can just relax.
1:06.2	I don't know.
1:06.6	It's day six, though, so.
1:08.1	Yeah, they have plenty of days left.
1:10.7	I know.
1:11.1	I know what is it.
1:12.0	They have six more days left, right?
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