Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In the 19th century, 36-year-old Maria Stupka went down in Vienna’s criminal history because her crime was so brutal. Maria Stupka was born in Beneschau. As a young woman, she moved to Vienna, where she lived as a single woman in a two-room apartment...
Month: March 2026
Shortly before Christmas 2001, a sales representative traveling in his company car on the Brünner Bundesstraße north of Vienna made a gruesome discovery. Needing to use the restroom urgently, he stopped at a parking lot and walked to the edge of the forest. There,...
As in almost all companies, there is often a whipping boy among the employees who is punished for the mistakes of others and is ridiculed. One such whipping boy was 22-year-old locksmith’s apprentice Johann Karl Hack, who worked with 24-year-old Karl Jenker and Anton...
Like Rome, the Franconian city of Bamberg was built on seven hills, which is why it was nicknamed Franconian Rome. In 1832, the last public execution took place on the Rabenstein in Bamberg’s picturesque old town. The murderer and robber Johann Georg Pröschel was...
One serial killer who murdered out of pure greed was Maximilian Gufler, who went down in Austrian post-war history as the Bluebeard of St. Pölten. Like the fairy-tale king Bluebeard, he killed his wives out of greed. Max Gufler was born on May 1,...
On July 24, 1884, around midnight, the engineer of the express freight train from Vienna to Marchegg saw a person lying on the tracks in the headlights near Gänserndorf. The engineer immediately applied the brakes and the train stopped just before reaching the body....
