Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in a small apartment. The attractive, pregnant woman was last seen alive when she got...
Bestiality in Crime
To this day, the ruins of Weibertreu Castle in Weinsberg—which the famous senior physician Justinus Kerner saved from ruin by founding the Weinsberg Women’s Association together with six women on December 8, 1823—stand as a testament to one of the oldest aristocratic castles in...
After the end of World War II, there was great hardship in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube. There was a shortage of food, consumer goods, and housing. During these hard times, 27-year-old textile engineer Julius Kausel landed a lucrative job as managing director...
One of Germany’s most spectacular series of robbery-murders took place in the mid-1980s. At remote rest stops, a masked man would lie in wait for lone men, whom he shot in cold blood so he could use their cars to rob a bank. The...
The love story of Wilhelm Dengler and Emilie Stadler could easily have come straight out of a soap opera script. When the handsome goldsmith from Ludwigsburg caught sight of the young, attractive Emilie Stadler at his friend’s wedding in 1845, he was instantly smitten....
One of the most popular—and perhaps even the most popular—methods women use to kill someone is poison. Poisoning is considered particularly sophisticated, which is why women have long been associated with it. Even in Greek mythology, there was the deadly poisoner Medea. She was...
