Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
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...
On 11 October 1878, an event took place that left a lasting mark on the history of Texas: the notorious outlaw Bill Longley was executed before a crowd of thousands. Longley’s life and deeds form a fascinating mosaic of historical facts and wild legends...
A prime example of a serial killer was Harvey Glatman, who went down in criminal history as ‘The Glamour Girl Slayer’ or ‘The Lonely Heart Killer’. He earned this nickname because he posed as a professional photographer working for prestigious magazines, placing newspaper adverts...
