Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
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...
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring. Following an examination by the medical officer, who found bruises on her buttocks, it...
A series of brutal murders of 15 homeless people, which took place in Moscow between July 2014 and February 2015, shocked the whole of Russia. The victims were simply slaughtered like animals in remote locations away from CCTV cameras, suffering numerous stab wounds and...
In September 2022, 56-year-old tailor Kazim Tatar was reported missing after returning from his holiday in Turkey. Since then, there had been no trace of him. What was initially regarded as a harmless missing persons case turned out to be a diabolically orchestrated murder...
On 25 July 2023, a passer-by on the Albert Canal, which links the Belgian cities of Liège and Antwerp, spotted a fridge floating in the water and pulled it out. When a pungent smell hit his nose, he immediately called the water police. When...
The following gripping criminal case proves that poisonings are not only committed by women. It was 17 November 1909 when Captain Richard Mader, who served in the railway department of the Imperial and Royal General Staff, was found by the officer’s orderly, Anton Tomola,...
