# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joachim-knycha-a
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:57:36.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joachim-knycha-a"
name: "Joachim Knychała"
slug: "joachim-knycha-a"
description: "Joachim Knychała was a Polish serial killer, known as \"The Vampire of Bytom\" or \"Frankenstein\", who murdered five women between 1975 and 1982 in the Upper Silesian industrial region. He was apprehended, sentenced to death and hanged."
tagline: "Dreadful Beast"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zdjecie-wykonane-przez-milicje-po-zatrzymaniu-Joachima-Knychaly.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1952-09-08"
deathDate: "1985-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.27
  momentum:             12.76015325014713
  historical:           7.951606666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Кныхала, Йоахим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Knycha%C5%82a"
    title: "Joachim Knychała"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6204584"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump