Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In Germany, there are more than 3,000 unsolved homicides known as cold cases. One of them is the murder of 31-year-old Italian aerospace engineer Domenico Lorusso, which went down in German criminal history as the Isar Murder and continues to raise many questions to...
Murder Mysteries
Even in ancient times, poison was a popular method for getting rid of unwanted people. One of the most spectacular poisonings of all time was the murder of Emperor Claudius. For those who held the highest office in ancient Rome lived in constant danger...
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...
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...
