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....
Bestiality in Crime
On a hot summer day in June 1847, the butcher’s apprentice Wilhelm Heinrich Armbruster was working in a field on Neckarweihinger Straße in Ludwigsburg. From a distance, he saw the cattle dealer Johann Gottlieb Winter, who was on his way to the Ludwigsburg cattle...
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...
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...
