# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joachim-kroll
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:48:57.171Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joachim-kroll"
name: "Joachim Kroll"
slug: "joachim-kroll"
description: "Joachim Georg Kroll was a German serial killer, child molester, necrophile and cannibal who murdered a minimum of eight women and young girls in the Ruhr metropolitan region from 1955 until his arrest on 3 July 1976. He was convicted of eight murders and one attempted murder but confessed to a total of 14. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 8 April 1982."
tagline: "German serial killer (1933–1991)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1933-04-17"
deathDate: "1991-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.25
  momentum:             10.88809946714032
  historical:           17.089368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يواخيم كرول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يواخيم كرول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Γιοάχιμ Κρολ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヨアヒム・クロル"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Kroll"
    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кролл, Иоахим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Йоахим Кролл"
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    title: "Joachim Kroll"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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