Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
John George Haigh went down in criminal history as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’. This British serial killer murdered six people out of greed. He always followed the same modus operandi. He lured his victims into his workshop, where he shot them in the back...
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March 22, 1879, after returning from church, she was killed and brutally dismembered by her...
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. As this was an effective painkiller that calmed the wounded, he named his...
A nun who, in the name of God, is believed to have more than 177 people to her name was the Greek woman Mariam Soulakiotis, better known as Mother Rasputin. She is not only regarded as one of Greece’s most notorious female serial killers,...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. This 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari valve manufacturing company in the town of Schloß...
Of all days, a brutal murder took place in Vienna on New Year’s Day 2023. That morning, Wojeiech M., a 51-year-old homeless Polish man suffering from severe alcoholism, was out and about in Vienna’s 22nd district, Donaustadt, looking for alcohol. He was specifically looking...
