In June 2010, two brutal attacks on female taxi drivers in the Lake Constance area shook the whole of Germany. The perpetrator, 28-year-old Andrej W., went down in criminal history as the taxi murderer of Lake Constance. He is still considered highly dangerous to...
Bestiality in Crime
In the fog of the cruel past, a cruel memory emerges that makes your blood run cold. It was a cold morning in September 1913 when Ernst August Wagner, a respected village school principal from Degerloch, a district on the southern edge of downtown...
Delia Balmer experienced three years of living with a serial killer, knowing that she would be his next victim. In 1991, she met the sophisticated, 1.80-meter-tall, blond carpenter John Sweeney in a London pub. Delia Balmer, in her late 30s, was at the lowest...
A truly insidious murder of absolute brutality took place long ago in the bishopric city of Speyer. The year was 1277 when, on Good Friday of all days, cathedral dean Albrecht von Mußbach was lynched in an inconceivably cruel manner by unknown assailants. The...
Horst David was a true wolf in sheep’s clothing who went down in German criminal history as the Strangler of Regensburg. Horst David was an unassuming man who worked as a painter, was married, had two sons, and lived in the small village of...
The 1920s were a difficult time for the city of Sheffield. High unemployment and extreme poverty turned parts of the city into miserable slums, which were soon plagued by gangs. One of the most notorious was the Park Brigade, led by Samuel Garvin. This...
