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Karl Denke, Lovingly Nicknamed Papa by the Citizens of Muensterberg, Was a Cannibal Serial Killer Who Murdered for Over Two Decades Cold Open: November, 1923. You’re a working-class German, carrying a bag full of cash to buy a few meals because hyperinflation has made your money worthless, and you stumble across a man selling boneless pickled pork. Sounds weird, and maybe kind of disgusting, but you’re happy to have finally found some meat you can actually afford. When you approach the man’s meat stand, you also notice he’s selling leather goods for a low price. You can’t believe your luck! You quickly buy as much meat as you can afford, and a new pair of leather suspenders to go along with it. Papa Denke, the butcher, thanks you for your business and tells you to enjoy the meat. And then, a little over a year later, when his story breaks, you start to vomit. That wasn’t pork you ate. And that wasn’t leather you bought. Karl Denke, lovingly nicknamed Papa by the citizens of Muensterberg, was a cannibal serial killer who murdered for over two decades. A butcher who ate pieces of his victims and sold their meat to strangers. A monster who kept victim’s bones and fashioned their skin and hair into random pieces of apparel. Denke was a quiet man who kept to himself who began killing as early as 1903, and who killed all the way until 1924. The true number of victims is unknown. The estimates range anywhere from at least 30 to somewhere around 40. And almost no one had a clue what he was up to for over twenty years. Karl was so far off the police’s radar for over two decades that they didn’t even believe the person who finally reported him until they discovered his sickening butcher’s workshop inside his apartment. How did he get away with what he did for so long? As we’ll learn today, Germany’s interwar economic troubles helped him out immensely and sent victims literally to his door. How is he not more well known? Until the 1980s, Karl’s story was almost completely lost in history. As crazy as his crimes were, others were committing even crazier crimes at the same times and his dark acts didn’t grab that many headlines. But we’ll learn all about his forgotten deeds today. Who was the mysterious Karl Denke? Why did he feel the need to not only kill, but eat his victims as well, and maybe sell their meat to unsuspecting customers at the local market? What other German serial killer stole his spotlight? All this on a historical, true crime, maybe don’t eat any meat while you listen edition, of Timesuck. PAUSE TIMESUCK INTRO I. Welcome! Happy Monday Meatsacks! It’s Cult of the Curious time. Holy shit do I have a wild fucking tale for you all today. I’m Dan Cummins, the Master Sucker, Fred Flinstone impersonator, future Darren, Bad Magic Master Magician, and you are listening to Timesuck. Hail Nimrod, Begone Lucifina! JK, get back here. Praise Bojangles, and turn it up to 11 Triple M. Not sure how many more birthday wishes I got. Still recording back before my birthday. Still 21. A. Social Media: Thanks to all of you who have downloaded free Subgroup Social Packs from the downloads section of Bad Magic Merch dot com. Fuck the Zuck! You can also follow us on IG and FB - @Timesuckpodcast for updates like these. B. Sweet new D.A.D.W.A.T.C.H. tee in the store at Bad Magic Merch dot com. D.A.D.W.A.T.C.H.! Dads Are Disappearing Where All The Corpses Hide. If we can all keep better eyes on our dads, there will be no more murders. C. Tour Dates?: Quick reminder that thanks to your Timesuck and Scared to Death Patreon supporters, we were able to donate $13,800 to the Ocular Melanoma Foundation. To find out more, go to http://www.ocularmelanoma.org/ D. Additional Announcements: And - have you got tickets yetfor Thursday, June 10th - Is We Dumb live and uncensored - hosted at Looped Live dot com. Virtual doors open at 6PM PT. Show starts at 6:30. It’s gonna wild and weird. And so much fun. And that’s it. Tried to be extra quick today. E. Segue to Topic: Now we are off to explore the twisted deeds of Karl Denke, a German cannibal serial killer lost for many years to history. Such a disturbing ghoul of a man who murdered and ate, in all likelihood, at least thirty people in his little town from 1903 to almost 1925. He reminds me of a monster from an old, dark children’s fairytale. Some real life Baba Yaga-like boogey man. I can hear parents using him to scare their children into behaving. “Eat your dinner, or Denke will eat YOU! He’ll clean your bones and pickle your flesh!” “Hurry home from school or Denke will cut you up and throw your meat on the stove!!” “Children who don’t listen to their parents get sent away to Denke’s bloody home…. and they never come back! He’ll wear your skin, rip out your teeth, and turn what’s left of you into a stew!!” How did the Cannibal of Ziębice [zhome beet-suh] sneak under the radar for so long?? You’re about to find out! PAUSE TIMESUCK INTERLUDE II. Intro/Establish Premiss: Summer, 1999. What were you doing then? Working? On summer break? Traveling with the Spice Girls working as a roadie for their “Christmas in Spice world” tour? Not even born yet young meatsack!?! If you were Lucyna (lut-zena) Biały (bi-a-ly), the Polish custodian of the Silesian [ si-lee-zhuhn] Library of Poland’s Wrocław (Vhrots-wahf) University, you were coming across dark details of the life of one seriously fucked up serial killer. You were thinking, HOW have I never heard of this monster before? In 1999, Lucyna (lut-zena) found records of a mysterious figure known as “The Cannibal of Ziębice,” [zhome beet-suh] - Karl Denke. She wondered how neither she nor nearly anyone else she spoke to about Karl recalled ever hearing of him. Imagine finding records of Ted Bundy’s crimes and know one you knew had heard of him. She dug through the records she found and began researching news articles from the 1920s. She compiled everything she could on him then sent her research to Poland’s two most important and prestigious literary publications - Mad Magazine and Penthouse. Only Poland’s FINEST minds and very BEST writers are able to get published in Penthouse and Mad Magazine. Gosh Dang! JK. Sorry - been awhile since I took an unnecessary and undeserved shot at my wife’s family’s homeland. No. Editor Tadeusz (tah-day-oosh) Dudź (dooj) published her research in, bear with me….. “Gazeta Wyborcza” [gah zetta vere boacha] and “Gazeta Wrocławska.” [gah zetta oh vah rotska] Hoping I got those pronunciations right. I listened to some native speakers say those words on forvo.com and literally said, out loud by myself, “Fucking what???” All of the Polish words I’ve said so far look absolutely nothing like how they’d be said with the same letters in English. Lot of Polish words in today’s suck. I always forget how tricky that language. I played a game with myself during the research where I would take a guess looking at the word regarding how it sounds and say it aloud to myself to see how close I was to the correct pronunciation. Not even remotely in the ballpark a single time. Thank god for websites like Forvo and for professors posting lectures on Youtube. Both of the publications I mentioned are daily Polish newspapers. Then, in July and August 1999, the Household Equipment Museum in Ziębice [zhome beet-suh] - the southwest now-Polish-once-was- German town of about 9,000 souls where Denke lived and hunted and devoured - put together a small exhibit for Denke featuring photographs and some of his tools. Worse museum name ever. The Household Equipment Museum. No wonder they put in a serial killer exhibit. Before they did, they probably had a whole ten visitors ever stop by. Who the fuck is going to the Household Equipment Museum? How bored do you have to be for that to sound fun? Anyway - those who attended the exhibit were…shocked. I bet they were. I am jaded as Hell to true crime details after all the topics we’ve covered and I was still shocked. Before this exhibit, almost no one outside Poland or Germany knew about Karl Denke, and very few IN Poland and Germany had either heard of Denke or at the very least they hadn’t thought about him in decades. Had he committed the same crimes in say, the US in recent years - Netflix and/or HBO would’ve probably already aired documentaries about him. For sure. Karl Karl Denke was a monster. A serial killer and cannibal who murdered for an estimated 21 years, killing what seems to be a minimum of thirty people. Thirty people whose murders he recorded in his journal. Thirty people he likely also ate. People who’s meat it’s very likely he sold to others. Many, many others. https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/20/karl-denke How could someone like that ever get lost in history? As we’ll learn, when Denke was active, there was a lot of nasty shit going on in the world, including two other serial killers prowling the streets of Germany - Peter Kürten, "The Vampire of Düsseldorf”, who’ll we be sucking later this year, and Fritz Haarmann, the “Werewolf of Hanover,” who we’ll suck a bit on today - a monster who’s sensational trial happened to wrap up just two days before Karl’s death.
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