Killers: Behind the Myth — Season 1, Episode 5: Tuchlin: The Scorpion
Documentary • 60 min • 3 seasons, 20 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Between 1975 and 1983, brutal sex killer Pawel Tuchlin terrorised the region around Gdansk, Poland. Known as 'The Scorpion' for the swift deadliness of his attacks, he targeted women walking alone. Tuchlin struck without warning, felling his victims with hammer blows to the head before molesting their bodies. He killed 9 women and left 11 more gravely injured. But Tuchlin is also a thief: it was his greed and the theft of 4 piglets which eventually led police to his farm, and sent the Scorpion to the gallows.
About Killers: Behind the Myth
A look at some of Europe's and America's most horrific serial killers and how bizarrely simple blunders eventually brought them to justice.