Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most prolific and, at the same time, most cruel female serial killers in criminal history was Belle Gunness, better known as ‘the Black Widow’. She was a woman standing 1.83 metres tall and weighing over 90 kilograms, who is said to...
Bestiality in Crime
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a period of two decades using arsenic, driven purely...
It was 1937 when, on the evening of 11 March, the carpenter Leopold Hasel turned up at the Landstraße police station at Gürtel 252 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. There, he told the duty officer that a terrible crime had taken place in his house,...
A serial killer who abducted babies from their prams in order to sexually abuse them and then kill them was the Russian Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryuko, better known as the Baby Hunter. In the autumn of 1977, he struck fear into the hearts of the...
A heinous series of double murders targeting couples in love took place in Düsseldorf between 1953 and 1956. During this period, a perpetrator would lie in wait for couples who were spending time together in their cars in secluded spots, in order to watch...
As the “Witch of the Super-Rich,” Catherine Monvoisin—also known as “La Voisin”—made her mark on 17th-century French criminal history. She exploited the intrigues and desires that prevailed at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, in Paris. This allowed Catherine to rise into...
