Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In the early 1950s, a murderous drama unfolded in the gloomy streets of Newtown, a suburb of Sydney. It was a time when a seemingly innocent housewife and mother committed two cold-blooded murders that shocked the whole of Australia and forced the authorities to...
Bestiality in Crime
A brutal double murder of an innocent retired couple took place on May 19, 2015. On that beautiful spring day, 75-year-old former district councilor Gerhard Hintermeier and his 74-year-old wife Erna were murdered in their detached house on Böckingstraße in Vienna’s 22nd district, Donaustadt....
Since December 11, 1946, 40-year-old Käthe Stiehler and her 7-year-old son Heinz had been missing in the Elbe metropolis of Dresden. They were last seen leaving their apartment at Großenhainer Straße 106 at around 4 p.m. After that, there was no trace of them....
The city of Leipzig was once the most important location for German publishers and book wholesalers. These were mainly located in the Graphisches Viertel (Graphic Quarter) east of the city center. This is also where Johann Jacob Weber’s publishing houses and printing works were...
One of the most notorious serial killers in German criminal history was Bernhard Prigan, better known as the Highway Killer. He was given this nickname by the media because he usually killed his victims near highways, which he had previously cycled along. Bernhard Prigan...
The last murderer sentenced to death and executed in Austria was Johann Trnka. He was a robber and murderer who had brutally murdered two women in Vienna. When student Heinrich Koller arrived at his mother’s apartment at Albertgasse 55 in Vienna’s 8th district, Josefstadt,...
