Killers: Behind the Myth

A stalled murder investigation cracks wide open after police discover an online murder story written by a Krystian Bala that bears similarities to the death of the man in the River Odra.

For two years, the baby-faced killer Karol Kot terrorized Krakow. Unlike many serial killers, he appeared to have no fixed motive when targeting his victims, which made tracking him down difficult.

For over 20 years, Joachim Kroll had been strangling women across northern Germany. As his killing spree grew, he started to target younger and younger victims while dipping his toes into cannibalism.

Fritz Honka lived a quiet life in the red light district of St. Pauli, picking up affordable, elderly prostitutes. When women began to decline his sexual perversions, he retaliated by strangling them.

For eight years, Pawel Tuchlin terrorized the region around Gdansk, Poland. Known as "The Scorpion" for the swiftness of his attacks, he targeted women walking alone.

Anatoly Onoprienko, known as "The Terminator," went on a mass killing spree in Ukraine. In just four months, he slaughtered 43 people, entering households and murdering whole families at a time.