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Joachim Kroll

German serial killer (1933–1991)

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Lived 1933–1991, aged 58Germany
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    1933–1991
    Aged 58
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Updated 2026-06-19

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.

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