Joachim Kroll was a German serial killer, rapist, and cannibal active during the years of 1955-1976 whose murders totaled to that of 14. His victim list is written as follows:

• 8 February 1955 - Irmgard Strehl, 19, raped and stabbed to death. Her disemboweled body was found in a barn in Lüdinghausen.
• 16 June 1959 - Klara Frieda Tesmer, 24, murdered in the meadows of the Rhine, near Rheinhausen. A mechanic, Heinrich Ott, was arrested for the crime. He hung himself in jail.
• 26 July 1959 - Manuela Knodt, 16, raped and strangled in the City Park of Essen. Slices of flesh were carved from her buttocks and thighs.
• 1962 - Barbara Bruder, 12, abducted in Burscheid. Her body was never found.
• 23 April 1962 - Petra Giese, 13, raped and strangled in Dinslaken-Bruckhausen. Vinzenz Kuehn is arrested and convicted.
• 4 June 1962 - Monika Tafel, 12, killed in Walsum, slices of flesh carved from her buttocks. Walter Quicker is arrested for the crime. He is released but is driven by neighbors to suicide in October.
• 22 August 1965 - Hermann Schmitz and his girlfriend Marion Veen were attacked as they sat in a car in a lover’s lane in Duisburg-Großenbaum. Hermann - Kroll’s only male victim - was killed, but Marion escaped.
• 13 September 1966 - Ursula Rohling, strangled in Foersterbusch Park near Marl. Her boyfriend Adolf Schickel committed suicide after being falsely accused of the crime.
• 22 December 1966 - Ilona Harke, aged 5, raped and drowned in a ditch in Wuppertal.
• 12 July 1969 - Maria Hettgen, 61, raped and strangled at Hückeswagen.
• 21 May 1970 - Jutta Rahn, 13, strangled walking home from a train station. Peter Schay was arrested and eventually released. He confessed to the crime in 1976 after being hounded by his neighbors.
• 1976 - Karin Toepfer, 10, raped and strangled in Voerde.
• 3 July 1976 - Marion Ketter, 4. Parts of her body were in the process of being simmered when Kroll was arrested.