Joachim KrollJoachim Kroll, commonly known as "the Hunter of the Ruhr", was a perfect example of a man who had suffered from mental illness, but who had managed to evade the police for almost twenty years. one year. Kroll was classified as someone who preferred young children as friends, had a weak vocabulary and short memory, acted impetuously, and was unable to understand or accept consequences. Usually, mentally disabled serial killers need an associate to help them rape their victims, dump bodies, and cover their tracks. Even with an IQ of only 76, Kroll managed to do all of these things on his own. His methods and the length of his killings took the police in a completely different direction, such as looking for someone who was incredibly intelligent, but who didn't guess that he was an inferior individual with the skills of 'a third grader (Wellman 1). Joachim George Kroll was born in the town of Hindenburg on April 17, 1933. He was raised as the eighth child in a mining family. Kroll's father was sent to war during World War II, where he became a prisoner and died. Kroll and his family then moved into an inadequate two-bedroom apartment that he shared with his six sisters and one brother. Joachim attended school there for five years, then worked on the family farm. He continued to live with his mother until he was twenty-two, perhaps because he feared being alone in the “real world” (Wellman 1). Kroll eventually ended up moving to Duisburg, in northwest Germany. He took a job as a toilet attendant after his mother died in 1955. Could this have partly explained why Kroll began his new journey of murder? He described the murders, which shows he didn't do it all for attention. He didn't even know he was being searched either. He blamed his abnormality on witnessing the slaughter of pigs when he was young. He was burned on the head for the rest of his life, he explains to the police officer. The second reason he committed these crimes was because his grocery bill was extremely high. He used meat from his victim's buttocks, forearms and calf as meat. He described his hunger and how the flesh of young children was the tastiest meat he could find (Wellman 4). The current trial has lasted 151 days. It began on October 4, 1979 and ended in April 1982. Kroll was sentenced to nine consecutive prison terms, but died of a heart attack on July 1, 1991 at the age of fifty-eight. The infamous Ruhr Hunter will never be forgotten.