Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
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...
On 25 July 2023, a passer-by on the Albert Canal, which links the Belgian cities of Liège and Antwerp, spotted a fridge floating in the water and pulled it out. When a pungent smell hit his nose, he immediately called the water police. When...
The following gripping criminal case proves that poisonings are not only committed by women. It was 17 November 1909 when Captain Richard Mader, who served in the railway department of the Imperial and Royal General Staff, was found by the officer’s orderly, Anton Tomola,...
One of the most chilling female serial killers in criminal history was the 15-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Bougaran, who, in an extremely perfidious manner, killed the children entrusted to her care whilst working as a nanny. Marie-Françoise was born on 4 September 1850 in the...
A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born in Vienna on 12 November 1893. Her parents were...
The seaside resort of Zinnowitz, in the north of the island of Usedom, is regarded as a popular holiday paradise on the picturesque Baltic Sea coast. In this idyllic Baltic resort, surrounded by unspoilt oak, beech and coniferous woodland and renowned for its magnificent...
