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This one is up there with the Toybox Killer, Albert Fish, Joseph Duncan, Bob Berdella, Chikatilo and a few others as far as being one of the most upsetting topics we’ve ever covered. Fascinating as Hell, but, extremely graphic content lies ahead. Between the years of 1955 and 1976, Joachim [yaw him] Kroll raped, murdered, and also ate many of his victims. All but one of his victims were women and most of them young girls living around around Duisburg [ deese-boo rg ] Germany. Relatively unknown outside of Germany, the Duisburg [ deese-boo rg ] Man-Eater aka the Ruhr [ roa r ] Hunter, aka the Ruhr Cannibal [ roa r ], was an intensely disturbing and deranged serial killer who terrorized his victims by committing some of the most heinous crimes known to man. Kroll killed at least 14 people and potentially killed, raped and ate more than twice that amount during his two-decade long spree. He also destroyed additional lives in other ways by having a string of unfortunate men take the fall for his crimes. Did he pull all that off because he was some kind of criminal mastermind? No. Not even close. He’s the most intellectually challenged killer we’ve ever covered. But don’t let that make you feel sorry for this monster. His crimes don’t leave much room for sympathy. After we learn about Kroll and his demented story, stick around for a deeper look into cannibalism around the world. Turns out there are more than a few other examples of meatsacks as disturbing as Kroll. So buckle up and get ready for a dark as fuck, true crime, did you really just say that edition of Timesuck. https://filmdaily.co/news/Joachim [yaw him]-kroll/ PAUSE TIMESUCK INTRO I.Welcome! A.Happy Monday: Happy Monday Timesuckers! I’m Dan Cummins, the Master Sucker, the dark web diver, Minstrel of Mental Mush-Mouthedd Mayhem, and you are listening to Timesuck. Hail Nimrod! Watch over us Lucifina! Protect us Bojangles. And soothe us Triple M. Recording in the Suckdungeon again in CDA with the Reverend Doctor Joe Paisley, the Scriptkeeper Zaq Flannary, and Logan Keith in the building. Gotta get Logan a nickname. Already used Micropeen a long time ago, so I’ll have to think about it. B.Thank You For Reviews: Thanks for continuing to rate and review Timesuck online. Noted and appreciated, meat sacks. Thanks for continuing to return to the Cult of the Curious. C.Additional Announcements: Reminder that we donated $5800 to https://www.alz.org/ this month to help end Alzheimer’s and dementia. Link in the episode description. Thank you. D.MERCH: Got some seriously weird Covid-19 face masks up at Bad Magic Merch dot com for those of you who either have to wear ‘em or if you just want to - might as well have fun with it all. Also! Two new variations of a new secret suck tee with more of a classic look. A nice subdued addition to the catalog for those of you hesitant to wear some of your more outrageous designs in public. And while they look tame, they are made out of 204% Albino Lyger Taint. VERY rare. EXTREMELY exotic. Super durable and guaranteed to put some extra pep in your step. E.Segue to Topic: And now - God help us all - let’s get to know Joachim [yaw him] Kroll. PAUSE TIMESUCK INTERLUDE II.Intro/Establish Premiss: Kroll would kill for a long, long time. I can’t think of anyone else who killed AND ate as many people and got away with it for as long as he did. Kroll would later try and claim that that his murders had to do with a simple inability to buy food. But that’s bullshit. He did it because he loved it. It turned him on. He loved gore. Unlike most serial killers we’ve covered, Kroll NEVER had an actual consensual sexual relationship with anyone. He almost had one, one-night stand. Almost. He never learned how to talk to women. Never learned how to talk to anyone really. Never had any friends. He was very, VERY much a loner. And being a loner is often not a good thing. Many of us need someone to help reel us back in from the darkness from time to time. Kroll had no such person. Not after his mother died. He was untethered. Free to explore his sadistic urges. No one was watching him. No one was checking in. And that’s a damn shame because he really, REALLY could’ve used someone to guide him towards a much better life than the one he chose. Let’s dig into that life now, in today’s Timesuck Timeline. https://filmdaily.co/news/Joachim [yaw him]-kroll/ PAUSE TIMESUCK TIMELINE INTRO III.Timesuck Timeline https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/kroll-Joachim [yaw him].htm https://sites.psu.edu/harringpassion/2019/04/05/Joachim [yaw him]- georg-kroll/ Documentary: The Duisburg [ deese-boo rg ] Cannibal https://killer.cloud/serial-killers/show/72/Joachim [yaw him]-kroll http://serialkillercentral.blogspot.com/2010/07/Joachim [yaw him]- kroll-ruhr-hunter.html 1.April 17, 1933: On April 17th, 1933, Joachim [yaw him] Georg Kroll is born in a town that no longer exists under the name or country it did when Joachim [yaw him] was born- Hindenburg, Province of Upper Silesia [ si-lee-zhuh]. And this threw me into a wormhole I spent way too much time researching. Bear with me for a moment. Wanting to get a feel for the town of his birth, I had trouble getting details about Hindenburg because there IS no Hindenburg, Germany. Not anymore. A few decades prior to Joachim [yaw him]’s birth, this town was known by its Polish name of Zabrze [ zahb-zhe ]. Poor Poland! I’ve joked around a lot about it on Timesuck because my wife is mostly Polish, but, it truly has been invaded so, SO many times. It’s long history is pretty damn complicated. Being sandwiched between various Russian and German states turned it into a real punching bag and it’s dealt with foreign oppressors for most of the last two and-a-half centuries. Russia, Austria, and Prussia - essentially Germany under a different name - carved Poland up in 1795. And the historically Polish city of Zabrze [ zahb-zhe ], now under Prussian rule, was renamed Hindenburg in honor of the German general and later President of Germany in 1915. After WW1, Poland regained it’s independence - BUT - a lot of Germans had settled in Hindenberg during its Prussian occupation - and, it ended up RIGHT on the border of new Poland and Germany. And a vote was held for its residents to decide if it wanted to remain German or go back to being Poland. And the majority of its residents were like, “Fuuuuuuuuck Poland.” And so MOST of the city remained a part of Germany. The city ended up becoming a divided border town. And Joachim [yaw him] ended up being born on the German side. THEN - WW2 happened and Germany took Poland back over. And all of the Zabrze [ zahb-zhe ] area fell under German control And then WW2 ended and Poland became its own nation again, and it was given a brand new border, and Hindenberg was no longer a border town. It fell well-within Poland again. And in 1945 its residents were like, “FUUUUUUUCK Germany.” And they renamed it Zabrze [ zahb-zhe ]. AND THAT is why, when you find Joachim [yaw him]’s bio on some place like Wikipedia, and it says he was born in Hindenburg, Germany and then you click the link - Zabrze [ zahb-zhe ] Poland pops up. Boom! Mystery solved. Hail Nimrod! And I do realize most people probably don’t give a shit about that detail but it confused and bothered me and once I figured it out, I felt like I had to share it with you.