Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The story of Colombian serial killer and rapist Daniel Camargo Barbosa is one of the most horrific and gruesome tales imaginable. A man whose life was marked by suffering and darkness from the very beginning, he became one of the most cruel killers in...
Crimes Against Children
Brazil’s most notorious serial killer and religious fanatic is undoubtedly Marcelo Costa de Andrade, who in 1991 raped and murdered fourteen boys aged between 5 and 13 in the vicinity of Itaboraí, about 30 kilometers from the city of Niterói in the Brazilian state...
In the early 1980s, the name Clifford Robert Olson Jr. haunted Canada like an evil shadow. This Canadian serial killer confessed to eleven gruesome murders that shook the country. His victims were innocent children and teenagers aged 9 to 18 who were torn from...
Since December 11, 1946, 40-year-old Käthe Stiehler and her 7-year-old son Heinz had been missing in the Elbe metropolis of Dresden. They were last seen leaving their apartment at Großenhainer Straße 106 at around 4 p.m. After that, there was no trace of them....
One of Germany’s most notorious serial killers was Volker Eckert, better known as the long-distance lorry driver from Hof. He committed his first murder as a teenager on 7 May 1974 in Plauen, killing his 14-year-old classmate Sylvia U. He strangled her and then...
Austria’s longest-serving prisoner, who spent no less than 51 of his 74 years in prison, was Josef Weinwurm. He went down in Vienna’s criminal history as the opera murderer. On 12 March 1963, he murdered 11-year-old ballet student Dagmar Fuhrich with a 12-centimetre knife,...
