Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
Sometimes life writes the craziest scripts, which seem so unbelievable that they defy rational explanation. This was also the case with the following crime story. On 16 September 1990, a man rang the police in the Danish port city of Randers, claiming to have...
Sometimes love turns to hate, or worse still, murder. This became a reality in the case of 22-year-old Franz Stockreiter. He simply could not come to terms with the break-up from his great love, Leopoldine R. For weeks after the split, he had been...
The Italian Countess Pia Bellentani caused a scandal in Italian high society. On 15 September 1948, at the legendary luxury hotel Villa d’Este on the western shore of Lake Como, she shot her lover, the Milanese industrial magnate Carlo Sacchi. But how could such...
In Finland, there has been only one convicted serial killer in the last 100 years, and that was Antti Olavi Taskinen. His first victim, in 1996, was a 20-year-old student from Tampere, to whom Taskinen – who was homosexual – had administered an overdose...
An Italian serial killer who remains an enigma to this day, as he simply murdered people without any apparent motive, was Roberto Succo. He was born on 3 April 1962 in Mestre, the son of a detective. Roberto was regarded as a polite young...
Mariahilf is the 6th district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, which is home not only to Austria’s largest shopping street but also to the largest inner-city market, the so-called Naschmarkt. In the 1930s, in this district – the second smallest in Vienna in terms...
