Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
In the 19th century, typhoid was a widespread epidemic from which one in ten infected people died. The infectious disease typhoid was caused by the bacterium Salmonella enterica. Hygiene conditions were often appalling, which provided ideal conditions for the epidemic to spread. As typhus...
John Edward Robinson is a notorious serial killer in American criminal history. He was born on 27 December 1943 in Cicero, the favourite town of the legendary Mafia boss Al Capone, in the US state of Illinois, and brutally murdered eight women between 1984...
A horrific crime took place on 24 October 2014, which made headlines around the world. On that day, young Chelsea Bruck disappeared from a Halloween party in Frenchtown Township, Michigan. It was only after a six-month search, during which more than 1 million leaflets...
One of the oldest cold cases in American criminal history, which was solved after 65 years with the help of DNA and forensic genealogy, is the double murder of a couple in 1956 in Great Falls, Montana, also known as ‘The Montana Sweethearts’. It...
Katherine Mary Knight, who was born in Tenterfield on 24 October 1955, is regarded as the female Hannibal Lecter; she is the first woman in Australian history to have been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Her crime, committed in February...
A murder straight out of a horror film took place on 11 February 2002 in the Swabian town of Gersthofen. That evening, 12-year-old Vanessa and her 10-year-old brother Christoph were home alone, as their parents, Romana and Erich Gilg, were at the Rose Monday...
