Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A criminal case that made headlines across Germany took place in Mönchengladbach in 1952. It was 27 January when the utterly distraught 31-year-old sexton, Hans Helpenstein, reported his wife missing at the Mönchengladbach police station at around 11.35 pm. He had last seen his...
Neighborhood Secrets
A serial killer who, according to rumors, sold canned sausages containing human flesh at the Schlesischer Bahnhof in Berlin was the peddler Carl Großmann. This ruthless serial killer, who allegedly slaughtered 23 women in cold blood on his wooden bench, was born on December...
One death that continues to give rise to speculation to this day is that of Johann Georg Schrepfer. This controversial figure was not only active as a Freemason, but also as a spirit summoner, occultist and impostor. Through his séances – during which he...
One of the most famous matricides was Orestes from Greek mythology. Another man who committed matricide – the technical term for when a child kills their mother – was Kalistros Max Thielicke. Kalistros’s murder of his mother in early August 1930 shocked the whole...
Valeria Messalina, a Roman woman, was regarded not only as an insatiable nymphomaniac but also as a cold-blooded murderer with numerous lives on her conscience. She was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, whose unbridled sex life provided ample fodder for gossip...
Count Alfred Julien Gabriel Gérard Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé was an insidious poisoner who came from the highest echelons of Belgian aristocracy. He was the son of Count Julien Visart de Bocarmé and Ida du Chasteler, and was born in 1818 during a stormy,...
