The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim was 34-year-old Josefine Timal in 1883. Shortly afterwards, her 47-year-old aunt Katharina Timal was killed, followed just six weeks later by Theresia Ketterl and...
Murder Mysteries
Johannes-Andreas Hanni went down in criminal history worldwide as the Hannibal Lecter of Estonia. He was born on March 24, 1957, in Valga, the son of a Baptist pastor. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Kahtla-Järve. Hanni enjoyed a strictly religious upbringing....
A cinematic murder took place on May 13, 2011, in an Asian shop in the popular Valdés shopping center in Los Cristianos, Tenerife. On that day, 60-year-old British woman Jennifer Mills-Westley was decapitated in broad daylight. Her murderer was 28-year-old homeless Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov...
On February 17, 2004, police officers made a gruesome discovery in a ground floor apartment in London. They had been called there by neighbors who had heard loud screams coming from the apartment. But what they discovered there could have come straight out of...
Leonarda Cianciulli was considered the epitome of an Italian mother. No one suspected that she would go down in criminal history as the soap maker of Corregio. Leonarda Cianciulli was born on November 14, 1893, in Montella. After her father’s death, her mother, to...
Karl Denke, better known as the “Cannibal of Münsterberg,” is considered one of the worst cannibals of all time, having slaughtered no fewer than 30 people over a period of 20 years in order to cure their flesh and then eat it with relish....
