Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
A cannibalistic serial killer who, between September 2009 and January 2012, brutally slaughtered at least nine people like livestock was the then 23-year-old Russian Alexander Bychkov. The reason why he killed innocent homeless people in remote locations in the Penza region sounds utterly bizarre....
One woman who took justice into her own hands was the Italian serial killer Milena Quaglini, who, between 1995 and 1999, killed three men who had sexually harassed and abused her. Milena was born on 25 March 1957 in Mezzanino, in the province of...
A horrific massacre in which over 40 people lost their lives took place on 10 August 1896 on Guadalcanal, the main island of the Solomon Islands, an archipelago in the South Pacific. On 2 October, the Viennese geologist Heinrich Freiherr von Foullon von Norbeeck,...
Only around 15 per cent of serial killers are female. One such killer, whose murders were particularly brutal for a woman, is the British woman Joanna Dennehy. In March 2013, within the space of 10 days, she murdered three men and attempted to kill...
The third woman in the history of the Czech Republic to be sentenced to life imprisonment was the peroxide-blonde Jaroslava Fabiánová, who in her youth could easily have passed for Barbie’s sister. Between 1981 and 2003, she murdered four men. As her modus operandi...
In 1912, a newspaper article appeared in St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, which struck fear into the hearts of readers. It reported on a cannibalistic murder duo from the village of Kurdla on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The duo were Ivanova and Olga...
