Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of America’s biggest sex scandals is the case of US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who not only sexually abused hundreds of young girls, but allegedly ran a full-blown sex trade involving them, with clients including influential figures, whose names will hopefully be published soon....
Neighborhood Secrets
A murder so brutal that it shook the whole of Austria was that of 59-year-old Hungarian businesswoman Ildiko, whose killer was her own son. Ildiko had once married a count from an ancient Hungarian noble family. But shortly after the birth of their son...
The date is June 1, 1583. It was a warm summer evening when a well-dressed nobleman, who had just arrived from Prague in his four-horse carriage, took a room at the innkeeper Greger Rühel’s, as it was still three and a half miles to...
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...
A police officer, of all people, became a victim of his own legal system. On April 16, 1968, 24-year-old police officer Ernst Karl shot and killed two burglars in the garage of the Tivoli department store in Vienna’s 12th district, Meidling, with his service...
A sadistic killer in American criminal history who spread fear and terror in Dallas in the early 1990s was Charles Fredrick Albright, alias the Eyeball Killer. Charles earned this nickname because he removed both eyeballs from his victims with surgical precision and then took...
