# Peter Kürten

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Peter Kürten: The Vampire of Düsseldorf Serial Killer Executed in 1931

Peter Kürten, known as the Vampire of Düsseldorf, was one of Germany’s most infamous serial killers whose reign of terror ended at the guillotine. Peter Kürten, known to history as the Vampire of Düsseldorf, was one of the most terrifying criminals of the early 20th century. Born in 1883 into an ab…

Tulips, Serial Killers & the Vampire of Düsseldorf | Profiling Evil in Europe

I’m in Europe for the next three weeks, mixing a little vacation time with some true crime. I’m recording parts of this episode in Amsterdam and Cologne, near the place where Peter Kürten was raised, and I’ll also spend two days in Düsseldorf walking the crime scenes tied to one of Germany’s most i…

253 - Hammer Happy Serial Killer Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Dusseldorf"

This guy. Killing mainly in 1929 when he was 46, the final year of his freedom, Peter Kürten would be charged with nine brutal murders and seven attempted murders in 1930, and then executed 1931. Over the course of his depraved life, he'd be sent to prison over and over, for theft, breaking and ent…

CRIME: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

In 1929, Peter Kürten terrorized the German city of Düsseldorf in a months-long killing spree that claimed at least nine lives, including those of young children. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa traces how decades of abuse, sadism, and unchecked violence forged on…

Gemini: The Seducer and the Monster

Neville Heath had an address book containing three hundred women. He had proposed marriage to women he intended to sleep with and discard. He had talked his way out of three court martials, multiple fraud convictions, and at least two RAF dismissals. After murdering Margery Gardner in a London hote…

Carl Gröpler: Germany's Executioner Who Beheaded the Vampire of Düsseldorf

Carl Gröpler was one of the last official executioners in German history and a key figure in the system of capital punishment that operated during both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Over a career spanning decades, he carried out at least 144 executions using both the traditional executioner…

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages Audiobook by Christopher Berry-Dee

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: Talking With Psychopaths and SavagesSubtitle: Beyond EvilCategories: Biography, Murder, Serial Killer, True CrimeAuthor: Christopher Berry-DeeNarrator: Colin MacePublisher: John BlakeRelease date: 09-05-2019Language: EnglishSumma…

Halloween Horror_ The Real Vampire Serial Killer of Dusseldorf

In the winter of 1929, the German city of Düsseldorf was gripped by a terror unlike anything it had known. Children were warned not to play outside. Women walked in groups. And the police received hundreds of thousands of tips as a shadowy predator left a trail of bodies across the Rhine. He stabbe…

SERIAL KILLER: "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten Pt. 1

In 1920s Germany, Peter Kürten terrorized Düsseldorf in a killing spree that would earn him the name the Vampire of Düsseldorf. But his path to murder began decades earlier, rooted in a childhood of relentless abuse and cruelty. From his first alleged killings at age nine to a string of escalating …