Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born in Vienna on 12 November 1893. Her parents were...
The seaside resort of Zinnowitz, in the north of the island of Usedom, is regarded as a popular holiday paradise on the picturesque Baltic Sea coast. In this idyllic Baltic resort, surrounded by unspoilt oak, beech and coniferous woodland and renowned for its magnificent...
A spectacular murder case that still sends shivers down the spine today took place in Wiener Neustadt in 1973. It was 3 March 1973 when 11-year-old Gabriele K. was on her way home from school. As she did every day, she walked through the...
There are murders that are sometimes difficult to comprehend, as they occur without any clearly identifiable motive. One such series of murders, which ranks among the worst massacres in Greek criminal history, is that committed by 24-year-old law student Theophilos Sehidis, who could easily...
As is well known, real life writes the best stories, as the following criminal case proves. On 8 August 2018, Ekaterina R.-S., a 48-year-old woman originally from Bulgaria, found her 60-year-old husband, Hans-Gottfried S., lifeless in his bed in the bedroom of their shared...
Thallium is a heavy metal which, like arsenic, was formerly used as rat poison because it is odourless and tasteless. However, it is not only lethal to rats, but also to humans. One man who used it as a lethal murder weapon is 42-year-old...
