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The Vampire of Dusseldorf - May 26 2020 - Daily True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

May 26th: Peter Kurten Born (1883) We listen to a lot of these stories and hear that these soon to be killers spend their time in and out of prison for various other crimes. It almost leaves you wondering how they had the time, between one sentence and another, to commit the heinous crimes they do. On May 26th 1883 a man was born who, despite the various facts of his case that can’t be fully corroborated, committed some truly heinous acts all while becoming a frequent visitor to the German prisons. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_K%C3%BCrten Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-upon-

0:03.9

We have a weird...

0:06.0

...by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

We listen to a lot of these stories and hear that these soon-to-be killers spend their time in and out of prison for various other crimes.

0:19.0

It almost leaves you wondering how they even had time between one

0:23.1

sentence and another to commit the heinous crimes that they do. On May 26, 1883, a man was born who,

0:31.7

despite the various facts of his case that can't be fully corroborated, committed some truly

0:37.1

heinous acts all while becoming

0:39.0

a frequent visitor to the German prisons.

0:41.9

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with

0:46.2

a morning cup of murder.

0:51.4

Peter Curtin was born on May 26, 1883 into a life of poverty, alcoholism, and abuse.

0:58.5

His father would often force his children to look on as his wife was made to strip and have sex with him.

1:04.7

His father was jailed for 15 months in 1894 for having an incestual relationship with his 13-year-old daughter. Basically, Peter was

1:13.6

born into hell and would soon grow to create a hell for others. At some point, the family was

1:20.2

able to escape his father and move to Dusseldorf. In 1888, when he was barely out of its toddler phase,

1:27.4

Peter attempted to drown a playmate.

1:30.3

Four years later, he befriended a local dog catcher and went with this man on violent

1:35.2

hunts to torture animals. This violence kept building throughout his childhood and into his teen

1:41.3

years. He was known as the misfit criminal who would fly into a violent rage at a moment's notice.

1:48.1

When he was 13, he discovered he could relieve his sexual urges by committing acts of

1:53.2

bestiality, and soon realized that he achieved the optimal pleasure when he first stabbed

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