November 1923, you're working class German, carrying a bag full of cash to buy a few meals because

hyperinflation has made your money worthless and you stumble across a man selling boneless pickled

pork. Sounds weird, maybe kind of disgusting, but you're happy to finally found some meat you

can actually afford. When you approach the man's meat stand, you notice he's also selling leather goods

for a really good price. You can't believe your luck quickly buy as much meat as you can afford

and a pair of leather suspenders to go along with it. Papa Denke, the butcher, thanks you for your

business and tells you to enjoy the meat. And then a little over a year later when his story breaks,

he start to vomit. That was not porcuit. That was not leather you bought. Carl Denke, lovingly

nicknamed Papa by the citizens of Monsterberg, was a cannibal serial killer who murdered for over two

decades. A butcher who ate pieces of his victims and sold their meat to strangers, a monster who kept

victims' bones and fashioned their skin and hair into random pieces of apparel. Thank you,

was a quiet man who kept to himself and began killing his earliest 1903 and who killed all the way

until 1924. The true number of his victims is unknown, the estimates range anywhere from at least

30 to somewhere around 40. And almost no one had a clue what he was up to for over 20 years.

Carl was so far off to police's radar for over two decades that they didn't even believe the

person who finally reported him until he discovered his sickening butcher's workshop inside his

apartment. How did he get away with what he got away with for so long? As we learn today,

Germany's interwar economic troubles helped him out immensely and sent victims literally to his

door. How was he not more well known? Until the 1980s, Carl's story was almost completely lost

to history. As crazy as his crimes were, others were committing even crazier crimes at the same

time and his dark acts did not grab that many headlines in Germany or elsewhere. But we will learn

all about his forgotten deeds today. Who was the mysterious Carl Denke? Why did he feel the need to

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