Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
It was 31 December 1993 when 6-year-old Nikos Douris failed to return home from playing. As it was already late, his worried parents, Georgia and Manolis Douris – parents of seven children – immediately alerted the local police station in Krandidi. The police, along...
Crimes Against Children
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring. Following an examination by the medical officer, who found bruises on her buttocks, it...
A spectacular murder case that still sends shivers down the spine today took place in Wiener Neustadt in 1973. It was 3 March 1973 when 11-year-old Gabriele K. was on her way home from school. As she did every day, she walked through the...
On 22 April 1960, the very day on which, over 90 years ago, the Marxist, revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin also came into the world in Rostov-on-Don. At that time, no one could have...
Favoriten is the most populous district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, home to over 10 percent of Vienna’s residents. This 10th district of Vienna is located in the south of the city and was formed in 1874 through the merger of the five suburbs...
The Russian Valery Georgievich Asratyan, better known as ‘the Director’, was a paedophile, serial rapist and murderer of young girls. He was born in 1958 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. He grew up in a loving and well-off family, but even at nursery school...
