Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The disappearance of a 19-year-old actress named Tamara Teodorowitsch made headlines at the end of May 1959, with wild theories ranging from kidnapping to secret service involvement. Tamar Teodorowitsch was born on March 12, 1940, in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, the daughter of doctor Maria-Nadescha...
Neighborhood Secrets
In the fog of the cruel past, a cruel memory emerges that makes your blood run cold. It was a cold morning in September 1913 when Ernst August Wagner, a respected village school principal from Degerloch, a district on the southern edge of downtown...
A scenario reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Rear Window” occurred on June 6, 1925. On that day, housekeeper Josefine Kaiser looked through her window into the apartment opposite, where 61-year-old widow Barbara Mitura usually cooked at lunchtime. But there was no sign of...
Delia Balmer experienced three years of living with a serial killer, knowing that she would be his next victim. In 1991, she met the sophisticated, 1.80-meter-tall, blond carpenter John Sweeney in a London pub. Delia Balmer, in her late 30s, was at the lowest...
Palermo is an exciting metropolis in the Mediterranean, idyllically located on the north coast of Sicily. The capital of Sicily was founded in the 8th century as a trading post by the Phoenicians. It was then conquered by the Romans. Under Muslim rule, it...
The 1920s were a difficult time for the city of Sheffield. High unemployment and extreme poverty turned parts of the city into miserable slums, which were soon plagued by gangs. One of the most notorious was the Park Brigade, led by Samuel Garvin. This...
