Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Even Marilyn Monroe knew that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” A young man took this to heart and, out of love, committed a fatal act of stupidity that changed his whole life. On December 8, 1908, the son of Viennese jeweler Julius Frankfurter...
Bestiality in Crime
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...
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...
