Kroll’s fourth victim was just thirteen years old. ibid.
The list begins to rack up. But not all Kroll’s attacks were successful. ibid.
Kroll will spend the rest of his life in jail. ibid.
When Kroll told a neighbor, Oscar Muller, not to use the top floor toilet, he nonchalantly explained that, ‘It is blocked up with guts.’ This was a shared toilet in the building. When Muller looked in the toilet, he saw what he thought was butcher remains, red blood and tissue floating in the water. A plumber came to inspect the toilet and found that Kroll was not kidding. The internal organs of a child were found in the toilet, and the police and plumber took out each organ and placed it in a bucket. A young girl, Marion Ketter had been missing for several days and the police soon realized what was disregarded in the toilet was the remains of Marion Ketter.
According to her grieving and appalled parents, Marion was regarded as a sweet and trusting blonde little girl with a sweet tooth for Kroll’s abundance of candy. On Saturday July 3 1976 Marion’s flesh and vital organs were found hastily stuffed into the drain of the one toilet in the apartment building. At first, Kroll said that the ‘guts’ in the toilet were the remains of a rabbit he had skinned and tried to flush. Police were perturbed and decided to search the Kroll residence. When Kroll showed them the stew he was in the process of cooking, he casually admitted that it contained pieces of the missing girl, including a little hand among the carrots and peas. He did not resist arrest.
Police further found pieces of human flesh in his refrigerator. Kroll, 43, small, balding, be speckled and with large protruding ears confessed to killing at least 14 women from 1955 and 1976 all between the ages of 4 and 61. His victims had been raped post mortem and their flesh taken from their bodies. He told police that as a young man, he had been unable to achieve sexual relations with conscious women. Kroll did not follow the news, proving that his killings were not a desperate cry for attention. He also had no idea that his killings were being broadcast and that police were desperately searching for him.
Like most serial killers, Kroll stalked his victims before deciding to attack. He admitted during his confession that he had intended to kill at least 14 young women, but his memory was not very good. He said he could have killed more, or possibly less. Kroll blamed his deviancy on seeing pigs slaughtered in front of him at the farm he grew up in, the recollection of this violent act burned in his brain for the rest of his life. His second reason for killings, he said, had to do with the fact that food was too expensive to buy where he lived. The simple explanation he gave was that he was hungry and the tender and fleshy meat of young children was the only satisfactory meal he would dine on. He made a very detailed confession with the police that the bodies of very young children were the best meat he was able to find. Serial Killer Central online article
For three decades a relentless serial killer was targeting women across the industrial heartland of West Germany. Between 1955 and 1976 he confessed to killing at least 14 victims, the youngest of them a 4 year old girl. World’s Most Evil Killers s1e5: Joachim Georg Kroll, Pick TV 2018
Police found communication with Kroll extremely difficult. ibid.
Two men were falsely accused or imprisoned and three men committed suicide in relation to Kroll’s murders. ibid.
KRONE, RAY: I Didn’t Do It TV - Justice Denied magazine - Ray Krone -
A beautiful young mother [Kim Ancona] viciously killed. Expert testimony condemned a man to death. But was he really guilty? I Didn’t Do It: Ray Krone, ID 2011
He learnt that he was the only suspect. ibid.
Ray Krone was dubbed the Snaggle Toothed Killer. ibid.
Uncovered saliva, blood evidence that pointed to someone other than Ray being at the crime scene. ibid.
The DNA did not belong to Kim or to Ray. ibid.
Kenneth Phillips was charged with the rape and murder of Kim Ancona. ibid.
After his release Ray campaigned against the death penalty. ibid.
Ray Krone was walking a free man in the bright Arizona sun on the afternoon of Monday, April 8th. That was remarkable because that morning, as every morning for the previous ten and a half years, he’d awakened in a prison cell after being convicted twice of 36-year-old Kim Ancona’s brutal December 1991 murder in a Phoenix lounge.
Ray’s conviction in 1992 was primarily based on ‘expert’ testimony that his teeth matched bite marks on Ms Ancona’s breast and throat. After spending four years on Arizona’s death row, Ray’s conviction was thrown out by the Arizona Supreme Court. The reversal of his conviction was based on the prosecution’s concealment from Ray’s lawyers of a videotape about the bite mark evidence until just before the trial began. The Court did not rule on the issue in Ray’s appeal that the prosecution had also concealed exculpatory test results of a prosecution forensic odontologist that concluded Ray’s bite mark wasn’t consistent with those found on Ms Ancona.
Although DNA tests introduced at his second trial proved that blood found on Ms Ancona didn’t belong to either her or Ray, he was again convicted on the basis of ‘expert’ testimony linking his teeth to the bite marks on Ms Ancona. The prosecution had no other physical ‘evidence’ that it claimed linked Ray to Kim’s murder.
After his second conviction in 1996, Ray told The Arizona Republic he was innocent. ‘I was not there that night ... pretty much rules out any faith I have in truth and justice.’ The trial judge, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James McDougall, expressed doubt about the outcome of the trial when he wrote, ‘The court is left with a residual or lingering doubt about the clear identity of the killer.’ Judge McDougall also wrote after sentencing Ray to life in prison, ‘This is one of those cases that will haunt me for the rest of my life, wondering whether I have done the right thing.’ Justice Denied magazine article Hans Sherrer 2:9
My name is Ray Krone, and I am the 100th person in the United State to be sentenced to death and later exonerated. I spent 10 years behind bars in Arizona, including more than two years on death row, before DNA evidence proved my innocence. I thank you for the opportunity to speak here today.
My wrongful conviction is not a lone occurrence of injustice, but a representation of what has happened to many innocent people. Ray Krone, testimony before Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
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March 26th 2010: Surgeon Dr Craig McAllister and his 18-year-old son are returning to their Kirkland Washington home. But when Dr McAllister gets out of his car two men in black balaclavas are waiting in the shadows … The two attackers suddenly flee the scene. Very Bad Men s3e12: Trained to Kill, 2014
It’s starting to look like Krueger and Bradshaw did the McAllister job together … Krueger: a cop prone to violence who killed men in the line of duty, literally choking one man to death. Then, to support a bad gambling habit, Krueger went rogue. ibid.
Krueger: his DNA is linked to an earlier unsolved homicide. ibid.
Bradshaw has not been seen since the night of the McAllister attack … Did Bradshaw drown his partner in crime, Gary Krueger? ibid.