Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In early 1973, 13-year-old Paul Martin Andrews experienced a true nightmare when he was not only kidnapped, but also locked in a damp wooden box buried in the forest, chained, beaten and raped several times a day over a period of eight days. It...
Crimes Against Children
A story that sounds like something out of a horror film is that of Thadius ‘Thad’ Phillips, a 12-year-old boy who was kidnapped by a sadistic monster and tortured for 43 hours. This monster was 17-year-old Joseph ‘Joe’ Clark, better known as the Bone...
A true crime story that reads like the script of a horror film took place in the autumn of 1978 in a remote area of Modesto, California. It was 29 September when 15-year-old Mary Vincent decided to hitchhike to her grandfather’s house in Berkeley....
Carroll Edward “Eddie” Cole was an American serial killer who killed no fewer than 14 women between 1971 and 1980. What was unique about this serial killer was that he repeatedly contacted the authorities before his first murder and told them about his murder...
The name Jerome Henry “Jerry” Brudos is still synonymous with horror and revulsion today. He was an American serial killer and necrophiliac who terrorized the tranquil town of Salem, Oregon, in the late 1960s. Known as the “Lust Killer” and the “Shoe Fetish Slayer,”...
Berlin-Marzahn, a district in eastern Berlin, was terrorized by a series of shocking phone calls between 1985 and 1987. These calls came from an anonymous perpetrator who incited children to commit deadly acts and sexually harassed women. The case attracted little public attention at...
