Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
From February 1 to May 22, 1990, one of the most gruesome serial murder sprees in postwar German history took place in the Main metropolis of Frankfurt. During this time, a man hunted down the city’s homeless, brutally smashing their skulls with a locksmith’s...
Murder Mysteries
A sex murder that remained unsolved for 20 years became one of the greatest mysteries in German criminal history. In the early morning of July 13, 1983, a firefighter discovered the body of 25-year-old Karen Oehme, the daughter of Wolfgang Oehme, CEO of Esso...
The first murder case in Germany to be solved using dactyloscopy was the murder of Anna Marie Lehmann, the widow of a Dresden civil servant. Dactyloscopy is a forensic method of identifying individuals based on the papillary ridges of fingers, palms, and soles of...
Mathias Kneißl was a true bandit legend who continues to inspire countless films and books to this day. This last bandit of Bavaria was born on May 12, 1875, in Unterweikertshofen. Mathias was the eldest of five siblings. His father, also named Mathias, was...
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Germany was the case of Hans Hetzel, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years. But how could this have happened? Hans Hetzel, a trained butcher and married family man, had picked up a young woman named...
One of Germany’s most spectacular series of robbery-murders took place in the mid-1980s. At remote rest stops, a masked man would lie in wait for lone men, whom he shot in cold blood so he could use their cars to rob a bank. The...
