Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
A truly gripping crime thriller centred on dumplings laced with arsenic took place in Britain after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The petite Elizabeth Fenning, known as Eliza, had been working as a maid since she was 14. Eliza, now 21, had already...
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born in 1933 in the Belgian village of Overmere. At the age of just 15,...
The year was 1918, when the First World War had come to an end. There were supply shortages throughout Austria, which led to the emergence of black markets. These were, so to speak, the supermarkets of the post-war era, where one could find anything...
It was July 27, 1995, when Markus Klenk set out on that warm summer day to search for beer cans in a parking lot in Hedelfingen, a district in southeastern Stuttgart on the left bank of the Neckar, because a can swap meet was...
Glasgow remains Scotland’s most dangerous city, where the murderer Susan Newell once wreaked havoc. She was the last woman in Scotland to be hanged as a result of a death sentence in the courtyard of Duke Street Prison, Glasgow’s women’s prison. Today, the Cathedral...
John George Haigh went down in criminal history as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’. This British serial killer murdered six people out of greed. He always followed the same modus operandi. He lured his victims into his workshop, where he shot them in the back...
