Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
In July 2021, a vicious assassination attempt was carried out against prominent crime reporter Peter de Vries, shocking the Netherlands. After a television appearance in Amsterdam, Peter de Vries was on his way to the parking garage when two men suddenly ambushed him. One...
A politician’s son gone astray and then implicated in a murder case—that was, of course, a political disaster for a high-ranking local politician. That’s why everything was arranged so that, in the end, the young scion got off with a suspended sentence and community...
In just ten months, between August 1987 and April 1988, 16 women were raped and murdered in the northern Spanish coastal city of Santander. Since the victims were elderly women ranging in age from 61 to 93, the Spanish media dubbed the serial killer...
In Germany, there are more than 3,000 unsolved homicides known as cold cases. One of them is the murder of 31-year-old Italian aerospace engineer Domenico Lorusso, which went down in German criminal history as the Isar Murder and continues to raise many questions to...
On May 26, 2007, as it does every year, the Danish port city of Aalborg—also known as the Paris of the North—turned into one giant party. That’s because Denmark’s largest carnival takes place there over Pentecost, when schnapps and beer flow freely and the...
Poaching was punished as a serious crime until the mid-19th century, as hunting was reserved exclusively for the feudal lords or authorized individuals. The forest rangers, who served as law enforcement and were effectively the long arm of the authorities, were hated by the...
