Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Suicide or murder, that was the question in the Paul Blomert case, which dominated the media landscape throughout Germany in 1961. But what had happened? On August 25, 1961, around noon, Ursula Blomert found her husband Paul Blomert lying bleeding on the floor of...
Murder Mysteries
The 18th century was teeming with organized gangs of robbers. After the Seven Years’ War, Napoleon I’s troops marched into the area west of the Rhine, causing many German officials to flee. During this period of lawlessness, the notorious Mosel gang was formed, which...
Love can be deadly, as proven by a criminal case that took place in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube, in 1937. In 1934, 54-year-old wealthy Italian fruit merchant Domenico Perotti from Vienna met and fell in love with 35-year-old Lilly Goldreich, a beautiful...
Belgium’s deadliest serial killer is undoubtedly Marie Alexandrine Becker. She was born Marie Alexandrine Petitjean on July 14, 1879, in Landen, where she grew up on a farm. At the age of 16, Marie moved to the art city of Liège, where she worked...
Today, Milan is considered a fashion capital. But in the 1970s and 1980s, Milan was Italy’s number one crime capital. During this period, various gangs fought bitter turf wars. One of these gangsters was Francis Turatello, also known as Angel Face. He was rumored...
Shortly before Christmas 2001, a sales representative traveling in his company car on the Brünner Bundesstraße north of Vienna made a gruesome discovery. Needing to use the restroom urgently, he stopped at a parking lot and walked to the edge of the forest. There,...
