Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
One of Ukraine’s most notorious serial killers was Anatoliy Yuriyevich Onopriyenko, who, between 1982 and 1996, cold-bloodedly murdered no fewer than 52 people, which is why he came to be known amongst the public as the ‘Terminator’, a killer machine. But who was this...
A criminal case that could easily have come straight out of a horror film took place in 1984 in Mönchengladbach, which, with its 272,000 inhabitants, is the largest city on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. It...
One death that continues to give rise to speculation to this day is that of Johann Georg Schrepfer. This controversial figure was not only active as a Freemason, but also as a spirit summoner, occultist and impostor. Through his séances – during which he...
A sensational criminal case in postwar Germany was the murder of a man who had been brutally killed with an axe by his own wife. The murderer was the attractive, previously convicted Ruth Blaue, who was born on April 2, 1914, in Breslau as...
On July 14, 2019, a German tourist discovered the severely decomposed body of a woman in an abandoned mine shaft not far from the village of Mitsero. The body had been washed out of the mine shaft and onto the surface by heavy rains....
One of the most famous matricides was Orestes from Greek mythology. Another man who committed matricide – the technical term for when a child kills their mother – was Kalistros Max Thielicke. Kalistros’s murder of his mother in early August 1930 shocked the whole...
