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Oct 2019
36m 47s

S1 Ep1: Joachim Kroll, The Man-Eater of ...

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Pedophile, rapist, murderer, and cannibal, Joachim Kroll is considered to be one of the most twisted serial killers in Europe in the twentieth century. Between the mid 1950s and the late 1970s, Kroll targeted women and children across West Germany, evading the authorities for years. 

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Original music by Ben Krejci and Daniel Birch.
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