Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
A horrific series of murders of girls and young women aged between 12 and 28, which took place between October 1977 and February 1978, plunged the American metropolis of Los Angeles into fear and terror. This spate of brutal murders came to be known...
The murder of Elaine O’Hara was an almost perfect crime. It took place on 22 August 2012, when 36-year-old Elaine O’Hara from Dublin drove her car to the secluded Shanganagh Cemetery and vanished without a trace. When her father Frank, who was Elaine’s closest...
In the wild, unforgiving landscape of Colorado in 1874, a gruesome and terrifying tale made its way into the annals of American history. This shocking tale unfolded through the actions of a man named Alfred Packer, better known as the ‘Colorado Cannibal’. Despite a...
One of Ireland’s most notorious female criminals was undoubtedly Catherine Nevin, better known as the ‘Black Widow’. Catherine Nevin was given this name by the media after she was convicted of inciting the murder of her husband, Tom Nevin, in a mysterious and harrowing...
One of the best-known and, at the same time, most controversial American serial killers is Henry Lee Lucas, better known as the ‘Confessor’, as he claimed to have killed over 600 people. But how credible are his confessions really? On the one hand, Lucas...
One murder that played a key role in improving safety on the railways was the so-called Poinsot murder. On the evening of 6 December 1860, Victor Poinsot, the distinguished President of the Fourth Chamber of the Imperial Court of Justice, boarded the train from...
