Between 1955 and 1976 the Ruhr Valley of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was being a preyed upon by a homicidal nightmare inflicting unspeakable cruelties on young women in the woods.

For more than 20 years his crimes escalated in depravity and carelessness while his crimes passed unsolved or were simply pinned to innocent men.

In this time Joachim Kroll, aka the Ruhr Cannibal or the Duisburg Man-Eater, would kill 14, primarily young women or girls, ranging in age between 61 and 4 years old.

The simple custodian passed right under the radar of authorities.

It was only after tremendous neglect to hide his crimes even in the slightest, clogging his shared pipes and filling his buildings’ community trash bin with a child's remains, that he would finally be stopped.

What police discovered in Joachim's flat was horrifying, the flesh of a child simmering in a pan and leftovers stocking the fridge.

The unfolding investigation uncovered details of at least 13 others murders, details that read like the improbable script from early 70s exploitation horror film.

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