• The Polaroid Killer: Volker Eckert: Day 6: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

  • Dec 18 2024
  • Length: 30 mins
  • Podcast

The Polaroid Killer: Volker Eckert: Day 6: 12 Nightmares Before Christmas

  • Summary

  • It is day six of our 12 Nightmares Before Christmas, and we are headed to Germany. After World War II, Germany was divided into four Allied occupation zones, with the Soviet Union controlling East Germany and East Berlin, while the United States, France, and the U.K. managed Western Germany and West Berlin. By 1949, Europe had transformed dramatically, symbolized by the creation of two Germanies. Initially, movement between the two regions was unrestricted, but as East Germans fled westward in droves, the border was sealed in 1961, culminating in the Berlin Wall, a defining emblem of the Cold War. In Plauen, East Germany, young Volker Eckert grew up in a Communist city near the Czech border. As a child, Volker developed a fixation on hair, playing with his sister’s dolls and mother’s wigs, which sparked sexual fantasies he kept secret. By age 14, his obsession with hair escalated into violence. On May 7, 1974, he strangled his classmate Sylvia Unterdörfel in her home under the pretense of needing help with homework, driven by an uncontrollable urge to feel her hair. Fearing exposure, he killed her and staged her death as a suicide. Sadly, Sylvia would not be his only victim. In fact, there would be many more.

    Join Jen and Cam of Our True Crime Podcast on this episode entitled ‘The Polaroid Killer: Volker Eckert.’

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    Thank you to our team:
    Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
    Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
    Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint


    Sources:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8BLkEZ7zk0&ab_channel=Mia%27sRealityChannel

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Eckert

    https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/eckert-volker.htm

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/07/crime

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/01/germany.gilestremlett

    https://web.archive.org/web/20120103001441/

    http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11264.shtml#ixzz5TG24bAlw

    https://www.novinite.com/articles/73211/Bulgarian+Victim+of+German+Sex+Killer+was+Pregnant

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/23/germany.gilestremlett

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall
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