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What Happened To Kroll's Murder?

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Joachim Georg Kroll, or also known as the Ruhr Cannibal or Ruhr Hunter, was born on the 17th of April 1933 in Hindenburg, Nazi Germany and died on the 1st of July 1991 in Rheinbach, Germany. He was a serial killer, child molester and cannibal and killed from the 8th of February 1955 to the 3rd of July 1976 and confessed 14 murders all around the Ruhr metropolitan region in the west of Germany. Kroll died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in the prison of Rheinbach.

Kroll was the youngest of eight children. He had a very poor education and only reached 3rd grade. Psychologists found out after his conviction that he had an IQ of 76 and was mentally retarded. He had a limited vocabulary, difficulty answering questions, preferred young children …show more content…

He also admitted cutting pieces of meat from the bodies and eating them later. Surprisingly, he thought he would get a simple operation to cure his homicidal urges and would be released from prison soon. This is again a sign of his mental retardation because he was incapable of understanding the consequences of his actions. Kroll was convicted on all counts and was given life sentence in April 1982 after a 151 days-trial.
Kroll avoided capture by travelling to nearby towns to find his victims. Kroll was not immediately connected to the crimes of the first victims from 1955 to 1966, for there had been a 10 year gap between Ilona Harke and Marion Ketter(his last victim). Kroll was able to cover his crimes by slaying them in different ways and doing it in different areas of Germany. He also did not always use cannibalism, so his crimes were thought to belong to other men. The only consistency in each crime was the aggressive and sexual nature inflicted after death and cutting pieces from the corpses.
As a conclusion, Kroll was an impulsive and mentally retarded killer and cannibal. He wasn’t as intelligent as other serial killers because most of the serial killers who couldn’t have been convicted over such a long time were highly intelligent. Thus, he probably also had a lot of luck for not being captured for over ten

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