Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most chilling female serial killers in criminal history was the 15-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Bougaran, who, in an extremely perfidious manner, killed the children entrusted to her care whilst working as a nanny. Marie-Françoise was born on 4 September 1850 in the...
Bestiality in Crime
The seaside resort of Zinnowitz, in the north of the island of Usedom, is regarded as a popular holiday paradise on the picturesque Baltic Sea coast. In this idyllic Baltic resort, surrounded by unspoilt oak, beech and coniferous woodland and renowned for its magnificent...
As is well known, real life writes the best stories, as the following criminal case proves. On 8 August 2018, Ekaterina R.-S., a 48-year-old woman originally from Bulgaria, found her 60-year-old husband, Hans-Gottfried S., lifeless in his bed in the bedroom of their shared...
Thallium is a heavy metal which, like arsenic, was formerly used as rat poison because it is odourless and tasteless. However, it is not only lethal to rats, but also to humans. One man who used it as a lethal murder weapon is 42-year-old...
For thousands of years, poison has been used as a murder weapon, and it was particularly popular amongst women, as it required no physical violence whatsoever to kill the victim. One woman who employed this method was Milica Vukobrankovics de Vuko et Branko. This...
One of the greatest criminals in French history was François Ravaillac, who treacherously murdered King Henry IV. But why? François Ravaillac was born in 1578 in Touvre, near Angoulême. He grew up in modest circumstances with his mother, a devout Catholic. For a time,...
