Isabella Mueller (crime writer) 
The worst female poisoner of all time, who is even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was Maria Catharina Swanenberg, better known as “Goeie Mie,” which means “Good Mia” in English. Good Mia is said to have been responsible for more than...
A shabby semi-detached house at 25 Cromwell Street in the tranquil county of Gloucester in southwest England went down in English criminal history as the “House of Horror.” The house was purchased in 1972 by Rosemary and Frederick West, a couple known for being...
Christa Lehmann was a serial killer who went down in German criminal history as the “Poison Witch of Worms.” The mother of four was the first person in Germany to use the highly toxic, over-the-counter pesticide E 605 as a lethal weapon, and it...
From February 1 to May 22, 1990, one of the most gruesome serial murder sprees in postwar German history took place in the Main metropolis of Frankfurt. During this time, a man hunted down the city’s homeless, brutally smashing their skulls with a locksmith’s...
Fritz Erbe and his 30-year-old mistress, Dorothee Buntrock, were a cunning murderous duo who robbed young women not only of their jewelry and clothing, but also of their lives. She was born in Holzminden in 1856 and worked as a teacher of laundry tailoring...
The last woman to be convicted under a British witchcraft law from 1735, the so-called “Witchcraft Act,” was 46-year-old Scot Helen Duncan, better known as “Hellish Nell.” The Witchcraft Act did not criminalize witchcraft itself, but rather the exploitation of belief in witches for...
