Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
Only around 15 per cent of serial killers are female. One such killer, whose murders were particularly brutal for a woman, is the British woman Joanna Dennehy. In March 2013, within the space of 10 days, she murdered three men and attempted to kill...
The third woman in the history of the Czech Republic to be sentenced to life imprisonment was the peroxide-blonde Jaroslava Fabiánová, who in her youth could easily have passed for Barbie’s sister. Between 1981 and 2003, she murdered four men. As her modus operandi...
In 1912, a newspaper article appeared in St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, which struck fear into the hearts of readers. It reported on a cannibalistic murder duo from the village of Kurdla on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The duo were Ivanova and Olga...
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring. Following an examination by the medical officer, who found bruises on her buttocks, it...
A series of brutal murders of 15 homeless people, which took place in Moscow between July 2014 and February 2015, shocked the whole of Russia. The victims were simply slaughtered like animals in remote locations away from CCTV cameras, suffering numerous stab wounds and...
In September 2022, 56-year-old tailor Kazim Tatar was reported missing after returning from his holiday in Turkey. Since then, there had been no trace of him. What was initially regarded as a harmless missing persons case turned out to be a diabolically orchestrated murder...
