A heinous crime, in which two people were brutally murdered, took place in 2004 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. At 10.14 pm on 16 June, an emergency call was received by the Vienna police. A patrol car was dispatched to Messenhausergasse 7 in Vienna’s 3rd...
Neighborhood Secrets
Thomas S., better known as the Cannibal of Koblenz, was a man-eater who cooked body parts with rice in the oven. The victim of the unemployed electrician was his 22-year-old cousin, Sabine L., with whom he lived in a flat in an attic near...
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, who poisoned her husbands in order to get her hands on their fortunes. Mary was born on 11 June 1889 as Mary Elizabeth...
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving a life sentence. Yet this is exactly what happened in the summer of 1977....
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among Scotland’s most notorious serial killers and end up on the gallows. But first things...
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were bludgeoned to death with a hammer or an axe in the Russian...
