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Very Few Women Survived his Horrific Attacks _ Joachim Knychala_ Serial Killer Sadist · History Dark

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Speaker 1: They are some of the world's most notorious serial killers.
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Speaker 2: He was like a god when he had a corpse
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Speaker 2: as his plaything.
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Speaker 1: But were these psychopaths born evil or did their mothers
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Speaker 1: make them into monsters? I'm Donald McIntyre and I'm on
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Speaker 1: a quest to explore how some of history's most horrific
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Speaker 1: murderers were molded by their dysfunctional relationships with their mothers.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to people who are pathological, psychopathic, the
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Speaker 1: influence of the mother is absolutely dominant. I'll be piecing
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Speaker 1: together events in their childhoods and talking to criminologists and
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Speaker 1: psychologists to try to understand what motivated their monstrous crimes.
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Speaker 1: We've never come across a serial killer who killed that
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Speaker 1: many people. In this program, the Frankenstein of Bitom, the
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Speaker 1: Polish serial sex killer Joachim Kinawa.
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Speaker 3: His mother and grandmother took a child, mistreated that child
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Speaker 3: and abused that child to the point that they've created
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Speaker 3: the hallmarks of a monster.
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Speaker 1: In an eight-year reign of terror, he murdered five women
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Speaker 1: and brutalized another seven who survived his savage axe attacks.
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Speaker 1: Are serial killers born or made? Can our environment, our childhood,
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Speaker 1: create a killer? Or is there something inherent within us all,
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Speaker 1: within our psyche, where the potential.
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Speaker 2: For murder always lurks?
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Speaker 1: Bitom, in southeastern Poland, was the stage for a series
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Speaker 1: of brutal murders of women over an eight-year period during
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Speaker 1: the 1970s. They were the grisly work of one of
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Speaker 1: Poland's most vicious sexual serial killers, Joachim Kinawa.
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Speaker 4: Kinehauer delighted in sexually defiling the women's bodies after death.
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Speaker 2: No shred of dignity was left.
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Speaker 1: It would be eight years before he's finally tracked down,
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Speaker 1: but not.
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Speaker 2: Before he brutally.
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Speaker 1: Murders five women and attempts to kill and mutilate another seven.
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Speaker 1: Along the way, he gets the nickname Frankenstein, and not
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Speaker 1: without good reason. Detectives working on the case were appalled
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Speaker 1: by the hideous nature of the crimes.
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Speaker 5: When he quoted it, I was so shocked that I
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Speaker 5: heard the crack of a broken skull.
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Speaker 1: What kept the police off the scent was Kinehowa led
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Speaker 1: a double life. To the outside world, he appeared a
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Speaker 1: happily married man, a father of two who worked down
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Speaker 1: the mines.
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Speaker 2: But for all of that time, he was also stalking.
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Speaker 1: And attacking women, sordidly abusing their bodies after killing them.
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Speaker 6: I hated women. It was so easy to disrespect a
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Speaker 6: woman's dignity. After death, she's just meat and.
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Speaker 2: Bones.
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Speaker 1: In 1982, his reign of terror is brought to an
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Speaker 1: end when, in a fit of rage, Kinawa kills his sister-in-law.
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Speaker 1: What the police didn't know when they first arrested him
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Speaker 1: was that they had finally caught the man they'd been
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Speaker 1: looking for, one of the most sadistic sexual killers in Poland.
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Speaker 1: His gruesome trail of murder and misogyny was uncovered at last.
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Speaker 1: How did this intense hatred of women come about and
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Speaker 1: what turned him into Frankenstein, a serial killer who butchered
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Speaker 1: and despoiled women? Well, to understand this, we have to
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Speaker 1: look at his childhood here in Bittum and the poisonous
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Speaker 1: relationship he had with the two most important women in
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Speaker 1: his life, his grandmother and his mother.
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Speaker 7: MUSIC PLAYS.
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Speaker 1: Joachim Kniechowa was born on September 8, 1952, here in Bytom,
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Speaker 1: an industrial region of Poland famous for its coal mining.
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Speaker 1: His father, Victor, was Polish and his mother, Anna, was German.
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Speaker 1: Both families disapproved of the relationship and very soon cracks
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Speaker 1: began to appear. Victor walked out of the family when
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Speaker 1: Joachim was just two years of age, leaving Anna to
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Speaker 1: fend for herself alone in a foreign country.
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Speaker 3: The absence of one parent is not half as damaging
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Speaker 3: as having a parent who is there, but is devoid
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Speaker 3: of love and affection and attention for that child.
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Speaker 1: Kinahau's mother worked long hours, leaving him in the care
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Speaker 1: of his bitter grandmother. She also showed no love, neither
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Speaker 1: for the young Kinehawa or her own daughter, holding both
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Speaker 1: in contempt.
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Speaker 6: I was surprised that my mother agreed for grandma to
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Speaker 6: live with us. Grandma never liked my mother and never
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Speaker 6: respected her. It upset me at the time, but I
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Speaker 6: couldn't do anything, as nobody cared what I had to say.
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Speaker 7: In general, she was only concerned about her grandmother. Her
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Speaker 7: grandmother was his mother, his guardian, and so on.
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Speaker 1: His grandmother was full of the biles and irritations of life,
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Speaker 1: including the very fact that this part of Poland had
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Speaker 1: been annexed from Germany after the war. She never forgave
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Speaker 1: her own daughter for marrying an alcoholic Pole who would
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Speaker 1: then abandon the family when Joachim was just to age two.
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Speaker 1: And she often took her frustrations out on the young child.
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Speaker 8: Kinahawa was subject to cruel treatment by his grandmother, who
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Speaker 8: took punishment to a whole new level.
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Speaker 7: Joachim's grandmother was cruel. There's no other word for her.
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Speaker 7: She was callous and cruel in her treatment of him.
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Speaker 7: And that cruelty, it would have been, for.
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Speaker 9: Him, a lesson, if you like, If somebody is bad, unworthy,
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Speaker 9: it's okay to punish them.
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Speaker 6: I was beaten and punished for anything, even small things.
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Speaker 6: Grandma used a coal shovel to beat me. And on
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Speaker 6: a few occasions when mother came back from work, she
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Speaker 6: smacked me with a belt too, as grandma lied to
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Speaker 6: her about my behavior. The anger boiled inside me, but
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Speaker 6: there was nothing I could have done.
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Speaker 1: The sadistic punishment dealt by his grandmother and mother would
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Speaker 1: slowly begin to distort young Kinehawa's mind.
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Speaker 3: As a child, he learns that violence is the way
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Speaker 3: to deal with problems and that it is an unjust
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Speaker 3: and unfair world. This creates all sorts of problems for
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Speaker 3: him going forward as an adult because his priorities and
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Speaker 3: his values about interpersonal relationships and the currency of violence
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Speaker 3: and aggression are completely skewed from what society sees as normal.
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Speaker 7: Achim tells such an event, among other things, that when
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Speaker 7: one day he came back from school late, he did
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Speaker 7: not get lunch. He sat, looked at his grandmother, who
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Speaker 7: was eating sweets and donuts at that time. She looked
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Speaker 7: at him with such sadistic pleasure. He was just simply hungry.
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Speaker 10: He wanted to eat.
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Speaker 7: So this is also the method that grandmother used towards him.
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Speaker 3: The kind of psychological torture and manipulation that his grandmother
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Speaker 3: was visiting upon him, not giving any responses to when
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Speaker 3: he was good, but being overly zealous when he was bad,
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Speaker 3: this kind of inconsistency in caregiving can be really, really
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Speaker 3: damaging for a child.
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Speaker 1: And even when his mother was home, there would be
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Speaker 1: precious little maternal support.
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Speaker 7: He had to complain to his mother. In the evening,
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Speaker 7: his mother left work or somewhere else.
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Speaker 9: We know that children don't just need mechanical care. It's
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Speaker 9: not good enough just to feed them and clothe them.
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Speaker 9: They need affection. He would have been left with his
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Speaker 9: emotional needs not being met. And when somebody's emotional needs
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Speaker 9: are not met at that very, very early stage, they
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Speaker 9: assume that actually their need is never going to be
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Speaker 9: met and they turn inward on themselves.
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Speaker 6: As a child, I observed lives of other children, and
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Speaker 6: compared to mine, I could already see the injustice.
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Speaker 1: Kinehawa's early days were unpleasant and made all the more
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Speaker 1: difficult by his grandmother and mother. But could those early
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Speaker 1: childhood experiences really have been sufficient to set the tone
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Speaker 1: for his attitude to women for the rest of his life?
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Speaker 1: It's really quite extraordinary, the role of the grandmother in
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Speaker 1: Kinehawa's childhood.
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Speaker 2: It's something out of a Grimm's fairy tale.
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Speaker 1: You can imagine the anger that he must have felt
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Speaker 1: towards this really oppressive figure. And, of course, whenever he
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Speaker 1: complained to his mother, she never believed him.
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Speaker 11: He must have been really frustrated, wasn't he? Because he's
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Speaker 11: an only child, his mum's out at work trying to
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Speaker 11: provide for him, and he's going to his mother, telling
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Speaker 11: his mother what's been happening, and she's not believing him, so.
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Speaker 10: Really frustrated.
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Speaker 6: Exactly.
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Speaker 12: Grandmother, she just wanted to humiliate him. She was really
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Speaker 12: cruel person.
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Speaker 11: And it seemed to be quite systematic. This is the
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Speaker 11: kind of thing that would happen on an everyday basis.
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Speaker 12: Other kids, they were laughing at him. He really hated
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Speaker 12: her and he started to dream about killing her.
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Speaker 11: His family were quite different from the families around him
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Speaker 11: in the local community, weren't they?
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Speaker 10: Exactly.
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Speaker 12: And his mother was German and it was just after
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Speaker 12: the Second World War. So this was like the other
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Speaker 12: reason that children laughed at him.
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Speaker 11: I think what compounds this particular case is that he
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Speaker 11: was an only child, so there were no siblings with
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Speaker 11: whom to identify and to form alliances. He really was
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Speaker 11: the victim of his mother and his grandmother.
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Speaker 1: He was born in the wrong time and the wrong
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Speaker 1: place and the wrong family.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: You've got not only the individual psychological factors that are
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Speaker 11: going on with the relationship with the mother and the grandmother...
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Speaker 11: But you've got those social institutional factors as well. But
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Speaker 11: I think there's just so much toxic stuff going on
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Speaker 11: within that family that it was only going to get
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Speaker 11: worse for him, wasn't it?
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Speaker 1: Coming up, the key event that triggers Kinehauer's hatred of
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Speaker 1: women and sets the pattern for his future murders.
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Speaker 3: To him, the rapes and the murders are entirely justified
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Speaker 3: because he was punished for something he believes he didn't do.
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Speaker 1: Kienihowa came from a poor, broken family in an industrial
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Speaker 1: region in southern Poland. His dad walked out when he
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Speaker 1: was just two years of age, forcing his mother to
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Speaker 1: work long hours to make ends meet. The young Kienihowa
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Speaker 1: was left at home with his despotic grandmother. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: just his home environment with his cold mother and cruel
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Speaker 1: grandmother that was devoid of happiness.
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Speaker 2: Outside the house, he was bullied by the local kids.
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Speaker 1: Born to a German woman, he was despised by other
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Speaker 1: Polish children.
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Speaker 7: Joachim was called after his mother's name, Schwab, and these
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Speaker 7: German connotations were very negatively appreciated and seen, so it
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Speaker 7: hurt him very much.
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Speaker 2: Knyhavn didn't play with us. He never befriended anyone.
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Speaker 13: He never had, for example, a permanent friend.
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Speaker 5: He didn't have any permanent friends.
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Speaker 10: He was more of a host.
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Speaker 9: He would have been ostracized by his Polish schoolmates, but
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Speaker 9: also he was punished for being Polish by his German grandmother.
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Speaker 2: So he would have believed.
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Speaker 9: Himself to be different, separate from other people. And that
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Speaker 9: could have been the seeds of his emotional detachment.
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Speaker 1: Friction with his classmates and violence at home were the
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Speaker 1: brutal lessons imprinted upon him.
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Speaker 7: He quickly learned that By the age of 13, Kinahawa
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Speaker 7: was getting into more and more fights.
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Speaker 10: His behavior impressed a group of.
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Speaker 7: Older delinquent boys at school, and he soon became part
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Speaker 7: of their gang.
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Speaker 10: And he came to their pack. So in his teenage.
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Speaker 7: Years, Nehauer starts to become more physical.
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Speaker 3: And more aggressive. I'm sure there would be some elements
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Speaker 3: of projection here. Living out the frustrations he must have
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Speaker 3: had as a small boy, and now he's gaining pleasure
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Speaker 3: from seeing what happens when he controls and dominates other people.
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Speaker 1: At 15, Kinhewa developed a lust for blood and for fighting.
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Speaker 1: Is this the effect of years of abuse he suffered
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Speaker 1: at the hands of his grandmother and mother, or simply
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Speaker 1: the result of a damaged mind?
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Speaker 3: His mother and grandmother took a child, mistreated that child
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Speaker 3: and abused that child to the point that they've created
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Speaker 3: the hallmarks of a monster.
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Speaker 1: You know, here is he, suffering aggression at home, but
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Speaker 1: he's beginning to change. He's no longer the isolated kid
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Speaker 1: aged seven and eight, because now he's seeking approval from
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Speaker 1: his peers by joining gangs and becoming.
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Speaker 2: a bit physical.
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Speaker 12: Exactly. He wanted to impress other people. The best way
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Speaker 12: for that in Piekare Śląskie was to be strong. And
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Speaker 12: he joined the gangs. He liked to fight.
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Speaker 11: And we see this a lot, this kind of behaviour
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Speaker 11: in children who've experienced violence and abuse and neglect during
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Speaker 11: their childhoods. Those feelings of shame translate into bravado and hypermasculinity.
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Speaker 1: Well, what signs are there at this stage where he's
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Speaker 1: slowly developing this kind of superiority, maybe even resentment towards
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Speaker 1: those people around him?
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Speaker 12: He wasn't true at all. He always played some roles.
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Speaker 12: Even when he was like a fighter, it was more
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Speaker 12: like a theatrical, like he saw blood and he really
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Speaker 12: wanted to hurt the person even stronger. But it wasn't him.
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Speaker 12: I don't think like he was true in those actions.
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Speaker 1: As a young boy, he really dreamt of escaping this
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Speaker 1: bleak industrial landscape to become a sailor or navigator.
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Speaker 2: He really loved geography and history.
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Speaker 8: After primary school, he went to the technician of the
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Speaker 8: intercontinental sailing. It turned out that this was also unrealistic,
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Speaker 8: and his mother simply could not stand it.
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Speaker 7: He was at the mercy of his grandmother and mother.
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Speaker 7: So even his dreams had to be hidden somewhere deep
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Speaker 7: in his heart.
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Speaker 10: Of course, he was sorry about it.
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Speaker 1: Having failed to get into the prestigious nautical school, the
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Speaker 1: disappointed Kinehauer is consigned to working in the local mines,
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Speaker 1: like many of his contemporaries.
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Speaker 3: Yet again we see another element of rejection entering his life.
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Speaker 3: He's now being rejected almost by a state, by society itself.
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Speaker 3: He's not good enough yet again to be involved with
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Speaker 3: the mainstream. This is just constantly going to remind him
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Speaker 3: that he's isolated and that he's very much alone and
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Speaker 3: on his own.
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Speaker 6: I didn't get to sailing school. It was a failure.
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Speaker 6: And it had a massive effect on my behaviour as
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Speaker 6: a result.
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Speaker 1: There was another darker moment in his teens when Joachim
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Speaker 1: first became interested in the opposite sex. His friends said
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Speaker 1: he was shy, reserved and introverted, but his very first
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Speaker 1: sexual experiences were anything but.
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Speaker 6: When I was 14, I started to hang out with
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Speaker 6: naughty kids and I really enjoyed it. We started teasing
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Speaker 6: girls and ripping their clothes off for fun. I once
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Speaker 6: caught a girl in the forest and ripped her clothes off.
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Speaker 6: She begged me not to, but I liked it.
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Speaker 7: He later on recalls that that was a process he enjoyed.
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Speaker 7: He probably actually enjoyed the mastery and the control over
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Speaker 7: a woman.
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Speaker 3: Which is a complete vault farce over what he's had
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Speaker 3: throughout the rest of his life. He now is in
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Speaker 3: a position of control and authority with women.
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Speaker 1: Kinnahawa's actions were taking him down a dark road, but
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Speaker 1: the troubled teen was soon to step seriously over the
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Speaker 1: boundaries of normality with his friends. Joachim and his pals
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Speaker 1: were drinking with a girl. After a few drinks, one
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Speaker 1: of the lads took her down to the cold cellar.
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Speaker 8: Joachim was standing on the barge. Kinahaua and his accomplices
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Speaker 8: were charged with group rape. At trial, they were sentenced
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Speaker 8: to three years in jail. He thought that he was
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Speaker 8: not involved in any rape.
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Speaker 5: So he claimed that he wasn't involved in the attempted
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Speaker 5: rape when he was 18. And perhaps his telling of
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Speaker 5: that lie is vitally important to him, his belief in
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Speaker 5: that lie. To him, the rapes and the murders and
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Speaker 5: the overkill that he engages in later on.
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Speaker 3: Are entirely justified because he was punished for something he
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Speaker 3: believes he didn't do.
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Speaker 1: But it was the reaction of his mother that would
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Speaker 1: leave him seething with rage as he stood away in prison.
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Speaker 2: Not only did she not.
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Speaker 1: Give him any comfort or support during the trial, but
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Speaker 1: instead she gave all her support and comfort to the
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Speaker 1: alleged victim.
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Speaker 10: Joachim's mother quite.
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Speaker 9: Rightly identified with the victim of his sexual assault. I
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Speaker 9: think she probably felt guilty and wanted to repair some
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Speaker 9: of the damage caused by her son. But in doing so,
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Speaker 9: it just reinforces to him that women aren't to be trusted,
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Speaker 9: that they're nasty creatures that stick together.
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Speaker 7: This prison was for him a slug and a real
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Speaker 7: pain in the ass. And for him to be a
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Speaker 7: nice boy, the older prisoners took care of him.
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Speaker 3: While protesting his innocence, clearly he's going to be aggrieved
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Speaker 3: and incredibly embittered against the female who he sees put
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Speaker 3: him there. And this is where we will see his
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Speaker 3: offending now take off. He's a revenged motive attacker.
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Speaker 1: Three years in jail must have felt like a lifetime
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Speaker 1: for a kid of his tender years, particularly when he
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Speaker 1: felt he was wrongly convicted and that the punishment was
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Speaker 1: completely unfair.
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Speaker 6: It lit the hatred inside of me. When I got out,
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Speaker 6: I wanted to get revenge on women. This hatred was
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Speaker 6: against all women.
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Speaker 1: I think part of the reason why he gets convicted
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Speaker 1: and dragged into this as some co-conspirator is because he
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Speaker 1: is of.
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Speaker 2: Low social status, his low social standing.
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Speaker 1: And of his German heritage. And all this would isolate
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Speaker 1: and make him more vulnerable, even in front of the law.
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Speaker 11: And it's just this complete failure to have a normal
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Speaker 11: relationship with someone of the opposite gender. So he'd had
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Speaker 11: a terrible relationship with his grandmother, a bad relationship with
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Speaker 11: his mother. His first real kind of interaction with a
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Speaker 11: girl of his own age is in this violent group context.
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Speaker 11: So there's nothing really that's very normal there at all,
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Speaker 11: is there?
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Speaker 12: And I think he loves humiliations. The thing that he
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Speaker 12: did when he was like a teenager, he took the
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Speaker 12: girls' clothes just to see them naked in front.
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Speaker 10: Of the people.
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Speaker 12: He liked that feeling.
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Speaker 1: That kind of vicarious pleasure he got in that, that
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Speaker 1: was a window into his future crimes.
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Speaker 12: And also he liked... I think he enjoyed to see
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Speaker 12: the blood. He enjoyed to see people who suffer. I
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Speaker 12: think it was like only one thing important to him, self-satisfaction.
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Speaker 1: How did his mother and grandmother feel about his failure
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Speaker 1: to get into nautical school?
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Speaker 12: I think this was like the biggest failure in his life.
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Speaker 12: He didn't want to be a minor and then he
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Speaker 12: had to. And I think that isolated him from other
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Speaker 12: people in a stronger way.
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Speaker 1: So then later when he was come out of prison, Liz,
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Speaker 1: he was to project all that animosity and.
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Speaker 2: Hatred onto other women.
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Speaker 11: Well, this was pressure cooker, wasn't it? This period in
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Speaker 11: prison in which he's got all of this resentment towards
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Speaker 11: his grandmother and towards his mother. And the person that's
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Speaker 11: been involved in him being convicted is another woman. So
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Speaker 11: it is interesting, isn't it? Because you think, well, here's
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Speaker 11: somebody who has the capacity for violence, so why is
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Speaker 11: he not following that violence through? I don't think he's
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Speaker 11: fully formed and developed yet. I think that period in
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Speaker 11: prison is quite instrumental in moulding him into what he became.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, marriage and murder.
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Speaker 1: Kinihawa starts a family and sets out on a mission
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Speaker 1: of misogyny and slaughter.
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Speaker 3: He needed to have some female in his life that
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Speaker 3: could reassure him that not all women are bad.
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Speaker 1: Kina Hawa's childhood was miserable. He was ignored by his
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Speaker 1: mother and tormented by his grandmother. Outside the home, it
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Speaker 1: wasn't much better. He hung out with dropouts, constantly fought
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Speaker 1: with classmates and never had a normal relationship with other girls.
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Speaker 1: His inability to relate to the opposite sex in an
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Speaker 1: ordinary way culminated in an 18-month stint in jail for
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Speaker 1: attempted rape. It was here where Joachim's bitterness towards women festered,
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Speaker 1: even more so after his release.
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Speaker 7: After leaving prison, he would get his first job at
24:19
Speaker 7: the Andalusia mine. It would be his first experience of
24:23
Speaker 7: real adult relationships.
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Speaker 10: And there he would meet Joachim.
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Speaker 3: Helena.
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Speaker 1: She'd be the only true love of his life. Shortly afterwards,
24:43
Speaker 1: they would marry.
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Speaker 5: She was the first girl who treated him so warmly.
24:47
Speaker 5: She could listen to him, listen to him. She made
24:50
Speaker 5: him so warm, so caring. She comforted him, believed in him.
24:57
Speaker 5: And I think he really fell in love with her.
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Speaker 6: In my life, I've had to face brutality, but only
25:13
Speaker 6: my wife gave me what I was always looking for
25:15
Speaker 6: in family and home, with my grandmother, my mother, all
25:19
Speaker 6: the goodness I had in my life, I owe to
25:20
Speaker 6: my wife.
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Speaker 3: His wife, Alina, was actually a replacement, a mother substitute.
25:26
Speaker 3: After all, his mother had recently abandoned him and shown
25:29
Speaker 3: favor to someone else. Perhaps he needed to have some
25:32
Speaker 3: female in his life that could reassure him that not
25:35
Speaker 3: all women are bad.
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Speaker 1: However, the marriage was also part of his twisted plan
25:40
Speaker 1: to take revenge on women. The couple settled here in
25:43
Speaker 1: the small town of Pekari Shlonshka, and for a while
25:46
Speaker 1: at least, it appeared as if he'd achieved.
25:48
Speaker 2: Some degree of stability.
25:50
Speaker 1: Certainly, he seemed to have felt comfortable enough to start
25:53
Speaker 1: a young family with Helena. But the domesticity wouldn't last.
25:57
Speaker 2: Already, he was preparing for life as a killer.
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Speaker 6: I was often getting upset when I thought back about
26:03
Speaker 6: the prison, and I promised myself that one day somebody
26:06
Speaker 6: will pay for it, And I've been preparing myself for that.
26:10
Speaker 6: But this promise was so strong that even meeting my
26:12
Speaker 6: wife couldn't stop it.
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Speaker 9: Joachim has generalised those feelings of hatred and humiliation to
26:21
Speaker 9: all women. And what he wants to do is he
26:23
Speaker 9: wants to obliterate all women from the face of the earth,
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Speaker 9: apart from his wife, of course, because she's perfect.
26:30
Speaker 1: In fact, his very first attack is carried out just
26:33
Speaker 1: one month after the wedding, and from that moment on,
26:36
Speaker 1: Knyhawa starts to lead a warped double life. He's now
26:41
Speaker 1: on the way to becoming Frankenstein.
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Speaker 5: Achim Knyhawa attacks on the third floor, hitting her in
26:47
Speaker 5: the back of the head with a hammer. She started
26:50
Speaker 5: screaming terribly, and Achim Knyhawa ran away, got scared and
26:56
Speaker 5: ran away.
26:58
Speaker 6: I attacked her on the staircase, but due to stress,
27:01
Speaker 6: I messed everything up that I'd planned before. The attempt
27:04
Speaker 6: was unsuccessful because of the tool I'd chosen.
27:07
Speaker 1: Following this first aborted attack, he then spends a year
27:10
Speaker 1: preparing and psyching himself up for another assault, getting to
27:14
Speaker 1: know escape routes and choosing the perfect weapon.
27:19
Speaker 6: What could be better for killing than an axe which
27:21
Speaker 6: is found in every house and every cellar?
27:25
Speaker 1: Kinehauer finally puts his sick preparations into action when a
27:28
Speaker 1: woman approaches him on the street.
27:31
Speaker 3: Looking at his MO, it's got clear parallels with his childhood.
27:36
Speaker 3: When he was beaten, when he was abused, when he
27:39
Speaker 3: was put down, it was always very quickly done, very
27:43
Speaker 3: aggressively done, almost very surgically applied to him by his grandma.
27:49
Speaker 2: But Kinehauer's attacks would take a darker turn.
27:52
Speaker 1: He would despoil the unconscious bodies of his victims before
27:56
Speaker 1: leaving them to die.
27:58
Speaker 6: I had intercourse with my victims when there was no
28:00
Speaker 6: longer a spark in their eyes, only a warm body.
28:04
Speaker 6: That way I could feel the pleasure of revenge and
28:06
Speaker 6: sexual satisfaction.
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Speaker 9: He covers the face of his victim and then he
28:12
Speaker 9: usually masturbates over the body. What he's doing is he's
28:16
Speaker 9: sending a very clear message. I regard you as worthless.
28:20
Speaker 9: I want to humiliate you in the same way that
28:24
Speaker 9: I was humiliated by my grandmother. I want to avenge that.
28:30
Speaker 1: Within a month of saying, I do, he committed his
28:33
Speaker 1: first attack. Was marriage just a convenient cover, or could
28:37
Speaker 1: he simply not help himself? It seems to me that
28:44
Speaker 1: he was developing this schizophrenic sense of control, where he
28:48
Speaker 1: could present, you know, one face to the world as
28:51
Speaker 1: a happily married, kind of functional minor, and this other
28:55
Speaker 1: secret killer face, and sexual deviant.
28:57
Speaker 11: When you look at it superficially, it doesn't make a
28:59
Speaker 11: lot of sense. He's performing the role of a good man,
29:02
Speaker 11: which enables him to develop a cover for what he
29:06
Speaker 11: later goes on to do.
29:07
Speaker 1: So the role of Helena in all of this seems
29:10
Speaker 1: really curious because on one level he's presenting her as
29:13
Speaker 1: a dispassionate relationship he has with her, but is his
29:16
Speaker 1: relationship with her significant.
29:18
Speaker 2: At this stage?
29:19
Speaker 12: He presented all women except Helena, except his.
29:23
Speaker 11: Wife, When we look at her for what she actually was,
29:26
Speaker 11: she was a prop that helped him perform the role
29:29
Speaker 11: of a good husband. So she was simply there to
29:31
Speaker 11: act as this perfect Madonna figure.
29:34
Speaker 12: I think he desperately needed to see his wife as
29:38
Speaker 12: this person with a scene, but then I think he
29:43
Speaker 12: thought that he just didn't deserve it, so he started
29:46
Speaker 12: to escape to those other women. And he wanted to
29:51
Speaker 12: have the sexual relationship with the dead woman.
29:57
Speaker 1: At 22, Kinehawa has committed his first murder. His preparations
30:02
Speaker 1: for the perfect crime have paid off. And as his
30:06
Speaker 1: confidence grows, so does the brazen nature of his attacks.
30:10
Speaker 5: He attacks a woman on the first floor. He hits
30:14
Speaker 5: her when she tries to open the door.
30:17
Speaker 7: I just thought to myself, I'll show you now. I'll
30:21
Speaker 7: kill you under the nose and you'll be looking, running,
30:24
Speaker 7: and I'll be.
30:29
Speaker 1: With each assault, Knyhaua grows bolder. Soon he is striking
30:33
Speaker 1: at women in the open and during the day, risking everything,
30:37
Speaker 1: toying with the police.
30:39
Speaker 5: I was informed that a girl in Silesian bakeries had
30:43
Speaker 5: been attacked. She told me about the attack she had experienced.
30:48
Speaker 5: At the same time, she told me that she had
30:51
Speaker 5: seen this man in a cafe. At the end of
30:54
Speaker 5: the month, Joachim Knyhaua.
30:59
Speaker 1: But Kinehawa had the perfect cover story every time he
31:03
Speaker 1: had an alibi. As a miner, he was able to
31:05
Speaker 1: clock in to work even when he was absent from
31:08
Speaker 1: the coal face.
31:09
Speaker 7: It reminded me a bit of a well-known character in
31:13
Speaker 7: European theater.
31:14
Speaker 2: Who was called Mr.
31:16
Speaker 11: Hyde.
31:29
Speaker 14: It must be difficult to understand my behaviour, because on
31:39
Speaker 14: one hand, I declared war on women, and on the other,
31:42
Speaker 14: I started a family.
31:43
Speaker 6: I've got a wife, kids, female colleagues. I'm simply a
31:47
Speaker 6: man with two faces.
31:49
Speaker 3: One of the interesting things about Niehauer is how he's
31:52
Speaker 3: able to compartmentalise his killing... away from his family life
31:56
Speaker 3: and away from his work life. And we often see
31:59
Speaker 3: that many of the most prolific and longest offending serial
32:03
Speaker 3: sexual murderers are those who are very good at living
32:07
Speaker 3: their lives in little boxed off compartments in isolation from
32:11
Speaker 3: other elements of their lives.
32:13
Speaker 1: By the summer of 79, Kinehauer had killed and raped
32:17
Speaker 1: three young women and carried out almost a dozen vicious.
32:20
Speaker 2: Attacks in the region. But in 1979, his MO changed.
32:26
Speaker 1: The police found two new victims, neither of whom were
32:29
Speaker 1: even in their teens.
32:31
Speaker 2: One was murdered.
32:32
Speaker 1: The other did manage to escape, though.
32:35
Speaker 5: Two girls, 10- or 11-year-old Halinka and Kasia, went out
32:41
Speaker 5: on bikes to the forest, taking berries.
32:48
Speaker 6: I wanted to get rid of them, so I told
32:49
Speaker 6: them to look for berries somewhere else. But one of
32:51
Speaker 6: them replied, it's none of your shitty business. My reaction
32:55
Speaker 6: was immediate.
32:57
Speaker 5: He attacked one girl. First, Kasia, hitting her with an axe,
33:01
Speaker 5: moved to the ground. The other girl, Halinka, began to
33:07
Speaker 5: run away, screaming. He ran after her.
33:16
Speaker 15: Joachim is going out with the expressed intention of getting
33:33
Speaker 15: a victim.
33:33
Speaker 9: He's got a script for what is going to happen.
33:36
Speaker 9: And in actual fact, he meets two girls who are
33:39
Speaker 9: outside of his normal victim profile. But they say something
33:43
Speaker 9: to him that causes him to feel humiliated. And that
33:46
Speaker 9: is all the trigger that he needs in his already
33:49
Speaker 9: highly aroused state to bash them with his ax. How
33:54
Speaker 9: dare these females, young females at that, humiliate me?
34:00
Speaker 1: The victims were certainly younger than any of his previous prey,
34:04
Speaker 1: but there was a common thread with his other assaults.
34:07
Speaker 1: Signature clues in his sexual behavior towards the bodies. And
34:13
Speaker 1: in a moment of rare self-reflection, Kinehauer himself was upset
34:17
Speaker 1: at his own actions.
34:19
Speaker 6: When I played with my daughter after the murder, I
34:22
Speaker 6: felt the worst, thinking about those girls. I wanted to
34:25
Speaker 6: murder all women, not kids, but with one stupid word
34:28
Speaker 6: in my reaction, I became a child murderer.
34:32
Speaker 1: The attack on the two young girls certainly seemed to
34:35
Speaker 1: have had an impact on Kinehauer's state of mind. Perhaps
34:44
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity, Liz, that, you know, while he didn't
34:47
Speaker 1: want to appear to be a child killer, you know,
34:50
Speaker 1: in essence, he just took the opportunity as it presented
34:53
Speaker 1: himself and then tried to blame the girl for being rude.
34:55
Speaker 11: Now, this is quite bad for him in terms of
34:58
Speaker 11: impression management. He's not finished the job. One of them
35:01
Speaker 11: has survived. And that imposes a bit of a label
35:03
Speaker 11: on him. So he's not this kind of super serial
35:06
Speaker 11: killer of women that he set out to be. He's
35:08
Speaker 11: now a child killer and that's quite damaging for his reputation.
35:11
Speaker 1: Having walked the paths from where he snatched the women
35:14
Speaker 1: and kidnapped them and took them away to attack them,
35:16
Speaker 1: I mean there were reasonably well built up areas. Inevitably
35:20
Speaker 1: there was always going to be a very high risk
35:23
Speaker 1: that he.
35:23
Speaker 2: Would be caught.
35:24
Speaker 12: He was stopped by police officers but he always was
35:28
Speaker 12: like so confident and he had a good alibi. Then
35:32
Speaker 12: he planned another murder and this was a And now.
35:40
Speaker 1: He's escalated to playing with the police and teasing everybody
35:43
Speaker 1: and saying, you can catch me, you can't, and developing
35:46
Speaker 1: his alibi. So he's quite a sophisticated operator.
35:49
Speaker 2: At this stage.
35:49
Speaker 11: It is classic textbook psychopathic behaviour, isn't it? It's pulling
35:53
Speaker 11: people's strings, it's playing with them and messing with them.
35:56
Speaker 11: And they'll learn what responses they need to give when
36:00
Speaker 11: somebody questions them, when somebody brings them to account.
36:06
Speaker 2: Coming up, the killing stops.
36:08
Speaker 1: Kinihawa takes a three-year break from his murderous crusade.
36:12
Speaker 6: I was very stressed and I understood that every murderer
36:15
Speaker 6: was eventually caught by his conscience.
36:18
Speaker 1: By the late 1970s, Joachim Kinihawa managed to arrange his
36:22
Speaker 1: double life in near perfect harmony. The devoted husband and
36:27
Speaker 1: the ruthless killer. But after attacking two young girls, his
36:31
Speaker 1: murderous campaign comes to a halt for the next three years.
36:35
Speaker 13: After this murder, I couldn't sleep at night.
36:47
Speaker 6: I looked at my daughter and I could imagine what
36:49
Speaker 6: the fathers of these girls went through. I was very
36:52
Speaker 6: stressed and I understood that every murderer was eventually caught
36:56
Speaker 6: by his conscience.
36:57
Speaker 7: He was afraid that he would say something through his sleep,
37:01
Speaker 7: so he hardly slept.
37:10
Speaker 1: A sense of remorse and guilt is not what you'd
37:13
Speaker 1: expect from a serial killer, but his divided life between
37:17
Speaker 1: domesticity and murder was beginning to unravel. So he decides
37:20
Speaker 1: to devote the next couple of years to his family
37:23
Speaker 1: and his home life.
37:35
Speaker 5: But there's another reason he puts a break on his
37:38
Speaker 5: homicidal activities. He starts an affair with his own wife's sister.
38:04
Speaker 6: My wife wasn't enough. I needed more. I cheated with
38:07
Speaker 6: my friend's wives. I was interested in what it would
38:09
Speaker 6: be like to be with another woman and how they
38:12
Speaker 6: would physically differ. So it also happened with my sister-in-law.
38:16
Speaker 6: I had an affair with Bogosława in October 1979. She
38:19
Speaker 6: was 17 years old.
38:21
Speaker 5: She was a girl who went to a special school
38:26
Speaker 5: and was a little late. She became a.
38:29
Speaker 7: Little troublesome for him because she wanted to get divorced.
38:34
Speaker 5: The threat of exposure and the potential destruction of this
38:39
Speaker 5: perfect family life forces Kinehawa to take action.
39:04
Speaker 7: I think the killing of his sister-in-law when she was
39:07
Speaker 7: about to tell his wife about their affair says an
39:09
Speaker 7: awful lot to.
39:10
Speaker 10: Us about him.
39:20
Speaker 3: I think the killing of his sister-in-law when she was
39:22
Speaker 3: about to tell his wife about their affair says an
39:26
Speaker 3: awful lot to us about him. He's an individual who,
39:30
Speaker 3: throughout his childhood and early adulthood, learned that violence is
39:34
Speaker 3: the solution to a problem, and it's a quick solution
39:37
Speaker 3: that you can often get away with. And I think here,
39:40
Speaker 3: when he'd learned that his mistress was going to break
39:43
Speaker 3: open the affair to his wife, he went back to type.
39:47
Speaker 3: Kill first, think later.
39:50
Speaker 2: He ran home and said that.
39:55
Speaker 8: Something had happened to Bogusia, that she had fallen, that
39:59
Speaker 8: she had hit her head with something sticking out of
40:01
Speaker 8: the carriage and that she didn't know what was going on,
40:05
Speaker 8: because she was unconscious, she was groaning. And to call
40:09
Speaker 8: an ambulance, when the ambulance arrived, it was determined that.
40:12
Speaker 1: She was dead. But it would be Kinehauer's twisted lust
40:24
Speaker 1: that would prove to be his undoing. Before reporting the crime,
40:28
Speaker 1: he would defile the body of his ex-lover one last time.
40:33
Speaker 5: There was manipulation in the area of relatives.
40:42
Speaker 1: Kinahawa was already a suspect for many of the other
40:45
Speaker 1: attacks on women in the area over the years. But
40:48
Speaker 1: the police had never been able to pin any crimes
40:51
Speaker 1: on him. Now, he'd struck far too close to home.
40:55
Speaker 1: He was arrested when his story simply didn't match the evidence.
41:00
Speaker 1: But he would still prove tough under interrogation.
41:04
Speaker 5: When I entered the cell, for example, at 8 a.m.,
41:06
Speaker 5: I finished at 6 p.m.
41:06
Speaker 10: Or later.
41:12
Speaker 5: I knew I had to break him mentally. I felt
41:17
Speaker 5: it was him.
41:18
Speaker 1: Unable to break Kinehauer, the police had to rely on
41:21
Speaker 1: a new piece of technology. The lie detector or polygraph.
41:27
Speaker 8: He reacted very strongly to critical questions. I had no
41:33
Speaker 8: doubt that he was the killer of his sister-in-law.
41:42
Speaker 5: However, after the research, I told Achim, Achim, you can
41:47
Speaker 5: deceive me, but not this.
41:51
Speaker 14: Device.
41:52
Speaker 5: You won't deceive this machine.
41:55
Speaker 2: It's you.
41:55
Speaker 5: You killed Bogusia. And after a few hours, only Joachim
42:00
Speaker 5: admits to the murder of Bogusław.
42:13
Speaker 1: It was when the police discovered trophy items he'd kept
42:16
Speaker 1: from his other victims, they realised that Kinehawa was no
42:20
Speaker 1: ordinary murderer. He eventually confesses to five murders and seven
42:24
Speaker 1: other sex attacks.
42:27
Speaker 2: Whilst in police custody, he is visited by his wife.
42:30
Speaker 10: I don't want to believe it.
42:33
Speaker 12: I just don't want to believe it.
42:36
Speaker 6: And we didn't have any children.
42:38
Speaker 11: There was no accident with Achim.
42:40
Speaker 6: Shekierko!
42:41
Speaker 3: By asking for the death penalty, Niehauer.
42:44
Speaker 12: Is probably trying.
43:08
Speaker 3: Elicit the last bit of control over authorities in his
43:12
Speaker 3: own life that he can. He clearly knows he's highly
43:15
Speaker 3: unlikely to be freed after what he's done. And to
43:18
Speaker 3: be honest, a life in prison without killing is probably
43:21
Speaker 3: no life at all for him. This is an individual who,
43:24
Speaker 3: for him, has tasted the exotic highs of murder and
43:27
Speaker 3: visceral death.
43:30
Speaker 6: I always wanted to be the best in everything. I
43:33
Speaker 6: achieved it after a few years, as today I am
43:36
Speaker 6: regarded as the biggest murderer In Polish history since the war,
43:40
Speaker 6: I've always strived to have the word murderer associated with
43:44
Speaker 6: my name.
43:46
Speaker 1: Kinajowa achieved his ambition, but tragically it took the murder
43:51
Speaker 1: of his sister-in-law for his name to become notorious. This
43:57
Speaker 1: Frankenstein was a complex individual who held down a relationship
44:01
Speaker 1: with a wife he claimed to love and had children
44:03
Speaker 1: he claimed to cherish. But in parallel, he also raped, tortured...
44:08
Speaker 1: and murdered women. It's a very crude murder, the murder
44:16
Speaker 1: of his wife's sister who he's having a relationship. It
44:19
Speaker 1: nearly seems like he's inviting, you know, capture.
44:22
Speaker 12: He didn't plan that at all and I think he
44:24
Speaker 12: knew that he might be caught for that because the
44:27
Speaker 12: victim was very close to him and she led police
44:31
Speaker 12: to Joachim Knechawa.
44:34
Speaker 11: Well, he's trying to limit the potential damage that she
44:36
Speaker 11: could cause because He's been sailing really close to the
44:39
Speaker 11: wind on this one. He's been pushing the boundaries. So
44:41
Speaker 11: now he's confronted with this situation and he's just got
44:44
Speaker 11: to do what he can do in the moment. And
44:46
Speaker 11: it's a bit of a mess that he can't clear up.
44:48
Speaker 2: But it was quite extraordinary.
44:49
Speaker 1: You can never, of course, become a famous serial killer
44:52
Speaker 1: unless you become known. But it looks like he did
44:55
Speaker 1: kind of invite the capture, the arrest and the conviction
44:58
Speaker 1: for that particular murder.
44:59
Speaker 12: He wanted to help police just because he wanted to
45:03
Speaker 12: get a death penalty. He wanted to die young in
45:07
Speaker 12: all his glory. He imagined himself as this murderer who
45:11
Speaker 12: will never spend all his life in prison.
45:13
Speaker 11: I think the reason he got caught was because he
45:15
Speaker 11: got sloppy and because he got careless and because he
45:17
Speaker 11: was unable to manage that situation with his sister-in-law. I
45:20
Speaker 11: think possibly he would have gone on to commit more murders,
45:23
Speaker 11: you know, the type of murders that he wanted to
45:25
Speaker 11: be known for.
45:27
Speaker 1: Joachim Kinehauer was finally hung for his crimes in 1985.
45:33
Speaker 1: He was one of the last people to be legally
45:35
Speaker 1: executed in Poland under the death penalty.