Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
It was 1922 when, on July 17, a hot summer day, a farmer found a package in a cornfield in Vienna’s 11th district, Simmering. Since it had bloodstains and smelled strongly of decay, the farmer alerted the police. When they opened the package, not...
Bestiality in Crime
A true story that never ceases to shock me is that of Blanche Monnier, who was locked up by her own mother, Louise Monnier, in the attic of their house in the French town of Poitiers for 25 years, with the windows barricaded so...
One of the most famous German serial killers in literature was Simeon Fleischer. Born in Fulda, Simeon Fleischer trained as a wool weaver and had a special talent for wrapping women around his finger. In Marburg, he met a young woman whom he married....
One of the worst serial killers in Russian criminal history is Alexander Pichushkin, better known as the Chessboard Killer. He wanted to kill 64 people, the same number of squares on a chessboard. Alexander came up with this insane idea together with his classmate...
The city of Roermond, located in the Dutch province of Limburg on the border with Germany and close to Belgium, was once the scene of a bloody massacre in which 13 priests and monks were slaughtered on July 27, 1572, during the Eighty Years’...
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train station milieu were tied up, sexually abused, mistreated, and then...
