Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
One of the iconic figures in Vienna’s criminal history was master tailor Ferdinand Wurzinger, whose extravagant lifestyle proved to be his undoing. Ferdinand Wurzinger came from a middle-class background. His parents had decided at an early stage that Ferdinand should learn the respectable trade...
This question remains unanswered to this day, making it one of Germany’s most mysterious cold cases. The New Year of 1994 was barely six hours old when a horrific crime took place in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Twenty-year-old Claudia Hucke, who worked as...
In 1862, the biggest letter theft of all time was uncovered in Vienna, in which a postal official had embezzled over 200,000 letters over a period of years, suspecting they contained money. The postal clerk in question was 32-year-old Karl Kalab, a helpful and...
The Bellwinkel trial is considered one of the most gripping criminal cases in Germany. At its center was 61-year-old senior building inspector Ludwig Bellwinkel from Kempen on the Lower Rhine, who had been charged with the murder of his first and second wives. Bellwinkel...
Josette Bauer was dubbed the last witch of Geneva because, to finance her lavish lifestyle, she had incited her husband to murder her father. But this was only the beginning of an incredible life story that offered everything that makes for a true thriller—from...
The 10th district, Favoriten, is the largest district in the Austrian capital, Vienna, and is home to 10 per cent of the city’s total population. It is regarded as Vienna’s crime hotspot, where the highest number of offences are committed. One such crime, which...
