Eric Meyers
speaker
2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But his murder spree had not yet ended.
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A crime of this nature was a serious concern to the Nazi Party.
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And the case was quickly picked up by the German criminal police force known as the KRIPO.
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Leading the investigation was Police Commissioner Wilhelm Lötke of the Serious Crimes Unit in Berlin.
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out.
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Before Germany had come under complete Nazi control, he had been a member of the Democratic Party and actively worked against Hitler's rise to power.
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But despite making many powerful enemies in the regime's early years,
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Even the Nazi government had realized his skills as a detective.
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far outweighed his political leanings.
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Lotke and his team of detectives were eager to mount a full and swift investigation into the murders.
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They wanted to make a public appeal for witnesses to come forward, but also make sure that women traveling on the S Bon remained vigilant while the murderer was still at large.
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But the Reich Minister for Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, wanted an altogether different approach.
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Hindered by the constraints of having to keep the investigation as quiet as possible.
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Lutge decided to search the records for similar cases to see if the killer had struck before.
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The police were able to link six previous attacks to the killer, all of them having taken place either on the S-Bahn itself or in and around a small part of Berlin known as the Garden Area.
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While many of the previous attacks had been either failed or opportunistic attempts, one had resulted in the fatal stabbing of a young mother from the garden area of Berlin.
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named Gertrude Ditter.
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Until now.
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The Berlin police had failed to link the crimes to one single perpetrator.
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Primarily because there did not seem to be a consistent pattern to the attacks.
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