Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In 1772, the child murderer Susanna Margaretha Brandt was the talk of the town in Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the man with whom I share a birthday. At the time, he was working as a lawyer in Frankfurt...
Crimes Against Children
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train station milieu were tied up, sexually abused, mistreated, and then...
A British criminal case that set a precedent with global implications for jurisprudence was the criminal proceedings in Regina v. Dudley and Stephens. The year was 1884 when, on May 19, the small sailing ship “Mignonette” set sail from Southampton bound for Sydney. On...
In 1965, a tragedy occurred in the idyllic region of Murcia, Spain, that forever changed the image of a peaceful community. The scene was a modest apartment on Carril de la Farola in the capital city of Murcia, home to Andrés Martínez del Águila...
Mohammed Bijeh is a name that has been etched deeply into the memory of Iran, as he lured, raped, and killed over 16 boys aged 8-15 in the desert south of Tehran. The murders in the Tehran area were recognized as the biggest criminal...
The evil stepmother Martha Rendell: One of the most cold-blooded criminals in Australian history
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The dark stories of times past continue to fascinate today’s society, where true crime has become a popular genre. A particularly gruesome chapter in this history is the case of Martha Rendell, a notorious name that still echoes in the alleys of Western Australia....
