Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The sadistic serial killer Werner Kniesek went down in criminal history as one of Austria’s most dangerous criminals. Werner went off the rails at a young age, stealing, skipping school, and repeatedly running away from home. For these reasons, on June 5, 1962, his...
Bestiality in Crime
Sometimes life writes the craziest scripts, which seem so unbelievable that they defy rational explanation. This was also the case with the following crime story. On 16 September 1990, a man rang the police in the Danish port city of Randers, claiming to have...
In Finland, there has been only one convicted serial killer in the last 100 years, and that was Antti Olavi Taskinen. His first victim, in 1996, was a 20-year-old student from Tampere, to whom Taskinen – who was homosexual – had administered an overdose...
An Italian serial killer who remains an enigma to this day, as he simply murdered people without any apparent motive, was Roberto Succo. He was born on 3 April 1962 in Mestre, the son of a detective. Roberto was regarded as a polite young...
A heinous crime, in which two people were brutally murdered, took place in 2004 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. At 10.14 pm on 16 June, an emergency call was received by the Vienna police. A patrol car was dispatched to Messenhausergasse 7 in Vienna’s 3rd...
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving a life sentence. Yet this is exactly what happened in the summer of 1977....
