Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
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...
An eight-month-long account by 40-year-old Inger Lise Bakken has gone down in Norwegian criminal history; it was so gruesome and yet so heart-rending that the public dubbed it ‘The Diary of Horror’. In it, Inger recorded her ordeal right up to her slow and...
A heinous crime, in which two people were brutally murdered, took place in 2004 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. At 10.14 pm on 16 June, an emergency call was received by the Vienna police. A patrol car was dispatched to Messenhausergasse 7 in Vienna’s 3rd...
