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...
Thomas S., better known as the Cannibal of Koblenz, was a man-eater who cooked body parts with rice in the oven. The victim of the unemployed electrician was his 22-year-old cousin, Sabine L., with whom he lived in a flat in an attic near...
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a legendary figure who went down in Russian history as an itinerant preacher, miracle healer, advisor to the Tsar and sexual predator. Grigori Rasputin was a farmer’s son who hailed from the West Siberian village of Pokrovskoye and travelled the...
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, who poisoned her husbands in order to get her hands on their fortunes. Mary was born on 11 June 1889 as Mary Elizabeth...
