The Findings:
Joachim Kroll was captured on July 3rd 1976 after his neighbor felt skeptical about something blocking the pipe that they share in their apartment building. The neighbor approached Joachim about the blockage and when they asked what he thought was causing it he replied "Guts". The neighbor immediately went to the police and they showed up at his house. Inside they found the body of a recently murdered four year old girl, Marion Ketter. They found some parts of her in the refrigerator, a hand boiling in a pan on the stove, and her intestines in the pipes. He was arrested immediately.
His Sentence:
Joachim Kroll was convicted with eight counts of murders, and one count of attempted murder. Although he had confessed to thirteen murders and one attempt, it was difficult to find evidence for several of the incidences since the crimes were two decades old. The trial took up a lot of courtroom time, due to the media fanfare. It began on October 1979, and ended April 1982.
Psychological Analysis:
During the trial, Joachim was hoping to get a surgical procedure that would cure him of his compulsions , so he could be made safe and be released from prison. While Kroll was apparently none too bright, he was not so delusional as to be considered insane at the time of his murders. Nor did he show shame or remorse over what he had done to his victims, which places him in the category of psychopathy, with the addition of being sexually sadistic. An interview with Kroll indicates that he blamed his deviance on an experience he'd had during puberty, when he was sexually aroused upon witnessing the slaughter of pigs. Since he was not educated or clever enough to devise an explanation to please the forensic psychiatrists, an experience that linked his sex drive with blood, butchery, and death could be at least an influence on his aberrant behavior and what cause him to not only rape his victims but also to mutilate their bodies. Kroll’s low intelligence might have contributed to his lack of discretion when it came to killing. It is by this that he was caught when he was arrested after having told a neighbor that guts were clogging the drain.
Joachim Kroll was captured on July 3rd 1976 after his neighbor felt skeptical about something blocking the pipe that they share in their apartment building. The neighbor approached Joachim about the blockage and when they asked what he thought was causing it he replied "Guts". The neighbor immediately went to the police and they showed up at his house. Inside they found the body of a recently murdered four year old girl, Marion Ketter. They found some parts of her in the refrigerator, a hand boiling in a pan on the stove, and her intestines in the pipes. He was arrested immediately.
His Sentence:
Joachim Kroll was convicted with eight counts of murders, and one count of attempted murder. Although he had confessed to thirteen murders and one attempt, it was difficult to find evidence for several of the incidences since the crimes were two decades old. The trial took up a lot of courtroom time, due to the media fanfare. It began on October 1979, and ended April 1982.
Psychological Analysis:
During the trial, Joachim was hoping to get a surgical procedure that would cure him of his compulsions , so he could be made safe and be released from prison. While Kroll was apparently none too bright, he was not so delusional as to be considered insane at the time of his murders. Nor did he show shame or remorse over what he had done to his victims, which places him in the category of psychopathy, with the addition of being sexually sadistic. An interview with Kroll indicates that he blamed his deviance on an experience he'd had during puberty, when he was sexually aroused upon witnessing the slaughter of pigs. Since he was not educated or clever enough to devise an explanation to please the forensic psychiatrists, an experience that linked his sex drive with blood, butchery, and death could be at least an influence on his aberrant behavior and what cause him to not only rape his victims but also to mutilate their bodies. Kroll’s low intelligence might have contributed to his lack of discretion when it came to killing. It is by this that he was caught when he was arrested after having told a neighbor that guts were clogging the drain.