Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
On March 2, 2019, young people found garbage bags in a canal in the Hungarian village of Jászalsószentgyörgy, which has a population of 3,000. The bags contained body parts that had been treated with hydrochloric acid to conceal the victim’s identity. Unfortunately, the body...
Murder Mysteries
It was July 17, 1975, when an emergency call came in to the fire department in Hamburg-Altona at around 3:37 a.m. There was a fire on the second floor of a six-family house at Zeißstraße 74 in the Ottensen district of Hamburg. This district...
On July 29, 1986, a truly horrific scene unfolded in room 418 of the police headquarters at Berliner Tor in Hamburg, one that would cement Werner Pinzner, known as a contract killer, in Germany’s criminal history. Werner Pinzner, also known as Mucki, was born...
In 1849, a gruesome crime in London captured the public’s attention and left a lasting mark on history. Marie Manning, née de Roux, was born in Switzerland in 1821 and later emigrated to Great Britain. There she worked as a maid for the wealthy...
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.” This house was purchased in 1972 by Rosemary and Frederick West, helpful and friendly neighbors. No...
A brutal murder took place on the night of March 9-10, 2012, shocking both Switzerland and Austria. That night, 28-year-old Swiss man John K. booked 44-year-old Austrian escort Claudia B. through an agency for erotic services. The meeting place was the Avia gas station...
