Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
After more than 16 years, the murder of Heidrun Pursche from Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen—previously considered an “unsolved case”—has finally been solved. According to witness statements, the 57-year-old cleaning lady, who worked at a clinic in Bad Krozingen, was on her way to work on the morning...
Neighborhood Secrets
An exciting drama unfolded in the circles of Parisian high society during the fin de siècle. It was sparked by the dazzling Marguerite Steinheil, who was accused of killing her husband and her mother, for which she was put on trial. But let’s take...
Some women feel magically drawn to bad boys, even though these men always put their own interests first and rarely turn into tame, cuddly cats. One such bad boy—who killed four people yet still drew women in droves to his prison cell to have...
In just ten months, between August 1987 and April 1988, 16 women were raped and murdered in the northern Spanish coastal city of Santander. Since the victims were elderly women ranging in age from 61 to 93, the Spanish media dubbed the serial killer...
The story of Marie Margarethe Beier—known simply as Grete—could easily have come straight out of a penny dreadful. She was a woman just 5 feet tall and extremely cunning, whose love for a petty criminal proved to be her undoing. Grete was the daughter...
One of the most notorious murder cases in Spanish criminal history involves the so-called Alcásser girls. These were three girls—Miriam García Iborra, Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, and Desirée Hernández Folch—from the Spanish village of Alcásser. These 14- to 15-year-old girls were abducted, brutally raped, tortured...
