Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In 2008, a serial killer from Lithuania kept the Guarda Civil in Tenerife on their toes. The serial killer was 44-year-old Maris Meiers from Madona, Lithuania. He was a Navy diver and passionate photographer who couldn’t cope with the fact that his great love,...
Bestiality in Crime
A diabolical crime took place in June 2000 in the Italian village of Chiavenna, a town of 8,000 people in the Lombard Alpine province of Sondrio, where the 60-year-old nun Maria Laura Mainetti was brutally murdered. For three weeks, the Carabinieri puzzled over who...
On March 9, 1931, at around 6:15 a.m., laborer Eduard Fuchs made a gruesome discovery at Krummgasse 2 in Vienna’s 3rd district, Landstraße. He found two legs wrapped in packing paper. He immediately alerted the police, who found fragments of a letter beneath the...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, people were accused not only of witchcraft and sorcery, but also of being werewolves. One person who was actually convicted of being a werewolf was Martin Blome in 1605. He was born in 1562 as the son of...
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...
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...
