A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to death, took place between 1983 and 1990 in the Aachen area, which is why the media dubbed the perpetrator ‘The Strangler of Aachen’. The...
In 1986, a series of murders of four young men sent shockwaves through the gay community in the British capital, London. Within two months, four men were strangled, their bodies horrifically mutilated either before or after their deaths. The first victim was 37-year-old railway...
By chance, the Russian police uncovered one of the most notorious cannibal couples, who had dismembered more than 30 people and then preserved their body parts in preserving jars in order to eat them. But let’s take it one step at a time. It...
Arwed Imiela was a man whom women trusted blindly and who shamelessly exploited that trust to enrich himself at their expense. He was not only a ruthless con artist but also a cold-blooded serial killer. But let’s take it one step at a time....
The true partners in crime, who murdered six people in Greece within a matter of days in order to enrich themselves, were the two 31-year-old Germans Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer, who had been best mates since their school days. The two had...
A crime that shocked the world because it was so heinous and yet fascinating at the same time took place in 1981 in France’s capital, Paris. It was June 11 when Dutch student Renée Hartevelt was invited to dinner at the apartment of her...
