Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to death, took place between 1983 and 1990 in the Aachen area, which is why the media dubbed the perpetrator ‘The Strangler of Aachen’. The...
Crimes Against Children
Andreas Bichel, from the Bavarian village of Regendorf, was a serial killer who lured young women into his woodshed between 1806 and 1808, killed them there and then dismembered their bodies into small pieces; he went down in German criminal history as the ‘Girl...
The 10th district, Favoriten, is the largest district in the Austrian capital, Vienna, and is home to 10 per cent of the city’s total population. It is regarded as Vienna’s crime hotspot, where the highest number of offences are committed. One such crime, which...
The youngest people in Irish history to be convicted of murder were two 14-year-old boys. They had brutally killed a young girl in what appeared to be a satanic ritual. Their victim was 14-year-old Anatasia Kriégel, known as Ana. Ana was born on February...
One of the most notorious murder cases in Spanish criminal history involves the so-called Alcásser girls. These were three girls—Miriam García Iborra, Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, and Desirée Hernández Folch—from the Spanish village of Alcásser. These 14- to 15-year-old girls were abducted, brutally raped, tortured...
A shabby semi-detached house at 25 Cromwell Street in the tranquil county of Gloucester in southwest England went down in English criminal history as the “House of Horror.” The house was purchased in 1972 by Rosemary and Frederick West, a couple known for being...
