Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The date is June 1, 1583. It was a warm summer evening when a well-dressed nobleman, who had just arrived from Prague in his four-horse carriage, took a room at the innkeeper Greger Rühel’s, as it was still three and a half miles to...
Month: November 2025
The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim was 34-year-old Josefine Timal in 1883. Shortly afterwards, her 47-year-old aunt Katharina Timal was killed, followed just six weeks later by Theresia Ketterl and...
A police officer, of all people, became a victim of his own legal system. On April 16, 1968, 24-year-old police officer Ernst Karl shot and killed two burglars in the garage of the Tivoli department store in Vienna’s 12th district, Meidling, with his service...
A sadistic killer in American criminal history who spread fear and terror in Dallas in the early 1990s was Charles Fredrick Albright, alias the Eyeball Killer. Charles earned this nickname because he removed both eyeballs from his victims with surgical precision and then took...
Johannes-Andreas Hanni went down in criminal history worldwide as the Hannibal Lecter of Estonia. He was born on March 24, 1957, in Valga, the son of a Baptist pastor. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Kahtla-Järve. Hanni enjoyed a strictly religious upbringing....
A cinematic murder took place on May 13, 2011, in an Asian shop in the popular Valdés shopping center in Los Cristianos, Tenerife. On that day, 60-year-old British woman Jennifer Mills-Westley was decapitated in broad daylight. Her murderer was 28-year-old homeless Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov...
