Cause of death Heart attack Role Serial Killer Name Joachim Kroll | Victims 14 Date apprehended July 3, 1976 | |
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Other names The Ruhr Cannibal (Ruhrkannibale)The Ruhr Hunter (Ruhrjager)Rollstuhl Funf (Fifth Wheelchair)The Duisburg Man-Eater (Duisburger Menschenfresser)Uncle Joachim (Onkel Joachim) Span of killings 8 February 1955–3 July 1976 Similar People Fritz Haarmann, Jürgen Bartsch , Fritz Honka | ||
Criminal penalty Life imprisonment | ||
Joachim kroll the duisberg cannibal
Joachim Georg Kroll (17 April 1933 – 1 July 1991) was a German serial killer, child molester and cannibal. He was known as the Ruhr Cannibal (Ruhrkannibale), Ruhr Hunter (Ruhrjäger) and the Duisburg Man-Eater (Duisburger Menschenfresser). He was convicted of eight murders but confessed to a total of 14 which he committed in and around the Ruhr metropolitan region.
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- Joachim kroll the duisberg cannibal
- Joachim kroll o canibal de ruhr mentes diab licas
- Early life
- Crimes
- List of victims
- Method
- Capture
- Trial and death
- References
Joachim kroll o canibal de ruhr mentes diab licas
Early life
Born the son of a miner in Hindenburg (Zabrze), Province of Upper Silesia, Kroll was the sixth of nine children. After the end of World War II, during which his father was a prisoner of war, Kroll's family moved to North Rhine-Westphalia.
Crimes
He began killing in 1955, after his mother died. Around 1960, Kroll went to Duisburg and found work as a toilet attendant for Mannesmann. Afterwards he worked for Thyssen Industries and moved to 24 Friesen street, Laar, a district of Duisburg. At that time he resumed killing people.
List of victims
Method
Kroll was very particular about where he killed, only killing in the same place on a few occasions years apart. This, and the fact that there were a number of other killers operating in the area at the time, helped him to evade capture. Kroll would surprise his victims and strangle them quickly. Afterward he would strip the body and have intercourse with it, often masturbating over it again. He would then mutilate and cut off pieces to be eaten later. Upon returning home, he would have intercourse again with a rubber sex doll he had for this purpose.
Capture
On 3 July 1976, Kroll was arrested for kidnapping and killing a four-year-old girl named Marion Ketter. As police went from home to home, a neighbor approached a policeman and told him that the waste-pipe in his apartment building had blocked up, and when he had asked his neighbor, Kroll, whether he knew what had been blocking the pipe, Kroll had simply replied, "guts". Upon this report, the police went up to Kroll's apartment and found the body of the Ketter girl cut up: some parts were in the refrigerator, a small hand was cooking in a pan of boiling water and the entrails were found stuck in the waste-pipe. Kroll was immediately arrested.
Trial and death
He admitted killing Marion Ketter and gave details of 13 other murders and one attempted murder over the previous two decades.
Kroll said that he often sliced portions of flesh from his victims to cook and eat them, claiming that he did this to save on his grocery bills. In custody, he believed that he was going to get a simple operation to cure him of his homicidal urges and would then be released from prison. Instead he was charged with eight murders and one attempted murder. In April 1982, after a 151-day trial, he was convicted on all counts and was given life sentence.
He died of a heart attack in 1991 in the prison of Rheinbach.