Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
A sex murder that remained unsolved for 20 years became one of the greatest mysteries in German criminal history. In the early morning of July 13, 1983, a firefighter discovered the body of 25-year-old Karen Oehme, the daughter of Wolfgang Oehme, CEO of Esso...
In 2008, a serial killer from Lithuania kept the Guarda Civil in Tenerife on their toes. The serial killer was 44-year-old Maris Meiers from Madona, Lithuania. He was a Navy diver and passionate photographer who couldn’t cope with the fact that his great love,...
A diabolical crime took place in June 2000 in the Italian village of Chiavenna, a town of 8,000 people in the Lombard Alpine province of Sondrio, where the 60-year-old nun Maria Laura Mainetti was brutally murdered. For three weeks, the Carabinieri puzzled over who...
In 1772, the child murderer Susanna Margaretha Brandt was the talk of the town in Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the man with whom I share a birthday. At the time, he was working as a lawyer in Frankfurt...
Over 400 years ago, social tensions arose in Frankfurt am Main between the citizens and the city’s rulers, an event that went down in history as the Fettmilch Uprising. The name derives from one of the leaders of the rebels, Vinzenz Fettmilch. Vinzenz Fettmilch,...
On March 9, 1931, at around 6:15 a.m., laborer Eduard Fuchs made a gruesome discovery at Krummgasse 2 in Vienna’s 3rd district, Landstraße. He found two legs wrapped in packing paper. He immediately alerted the police, who found fragments of a letter beneath the...