Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A common motive for murder is jealousy, which can affect anyone, regardless of their intelligence, age, or social background. One person who was so plagued by jealousy that he wiped out an entire family was 26-year-old Andreas E. The young man was a trained...
Bestiality in Crime
Today, Milan is considered a fashion capital. But in the 1970s and 1980s, Milan was Italy’s number one crime capital. During this period, various gangs fought bitter turf wars. One of these gangsters was Francis Turatello, also known as Angel Face. He was rumored...
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...
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...
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,...
