Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The true partners in crime, who murdered six people in Greece within a matter of days in order to enrich themselves, were the two 31-year-old Germans Hermann Duft and Hans Wilhelm Bassenauer, who had been best mates since their school days. The two had...
Bestiality in Crime
A crime that shocked the world because it was so heinous and yet fascinating at the same time took place in 1981 in France’s capital, Paris. It was June 11 when Dutch student Renée Hartevelt was invited to dinner at the apartment of her...
Maultaschen are a speciality of Swabian cuisine. These small pasta pockets, traditionally filled with minced meat, are considered the quintessential Swabian national dish and are now known far beyond the borders of Swabia. A true lover of these dumplings was Nikolai Schumaghalijew, better known...
In the 1970s, a series of gruesome murders of brunette women took place in the French town of Nogent-sur-Oise; these always occurred at dusk, which is why the serial killer was nicknamed the Shadow Killer. A total of seven women and one man were...
Among the most gripping criminal cases in Austria are the gruesome murders of women committed by Wolfgang Ott, whose crimes only came to light by chance. It all began with the cries for help from a woman that residents heard on the morning of...
Andreas Bichel, from the Bavarian village of Regendorf, was a serial killer who lured young women into his woodshed between 1806 and 1808, killed them there and then dismembered their bodies into small pieces; he went down in German criminal history as the ‘Girl...
