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It's summer, 1976, in the industrial town of Duisburg, West Germany.
Joaquin Kroll is standing by his attic window, carefully scanning the playground below.
He fixes his eyes upon a neighborhood girl.
Four-year-old Marion Ketter. A tingling feeling comes over him. he's attracted to the girl and decides to kidnap her at the next opportunity.
On July 3rd, Kroll lures the girl back to his home.
There, he sexually abuses her and kills her.
Days later, a team of detectives search for the missing girl.
One of them is the young Bird Yeagers. When a four-year-old goes missing, the alarm bells go off everywhere.
Of course, you use a lot of personnel to try and find this girl.
As police go door to door questioning residents, a neighbor approaches them, visibly shaken.
He explains that the waste pipe in his apartment building is blocked up.
When he asked Kroll, his upstairs neighbor, whether he knew the cause of the clogged pipe, Kroll gave a chilling response.
Guts. The police confront Kroll immediately.
And when we got there, other colleagues were already on the scene.
And we then went inside the flat and experienced something terrible.
It's a scene of unspeakable horror. On the stove lay a human hand, simmering in a pot of water with carrots and potatoes.
And inside the refrigerator, There was this girl, completely dismembered, upper arm, forearm, placed on corresponding shelves. so that he only had to take something out and add it to the pan.
That was unfathomable for us. In the plumbing, authorities discover Kroll had not lied.
There are internal organs clogging the pipes. including the lungs of a small child.
Well, I was shocked, because I had a son who was not that much older.
I had not been in the homicide division long, only for two years.
That was something where you had to more than just swallow.
I have seen many things, but this was something completely new to me, that a human being was able to do such a thing. or something.
For two decades, Joachim Kroll targeted women across West Germany, evading the authorities for years.
Between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, Joachim Kroll confessed to killing at least 14 people.
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Everyone kept saying he was the alleged child murderer and that drove my father to his death.
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The town of Agde in France is famous for sun, sand, sea and sex.
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