Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The name Jerome Henry “Jerry” Brudos is still synonymous with horror and revulsion today. He was an American serial killer and necrophiliac who terrorized the tranquil town of Salem, Oregon, in the late 1960s. Known as the “Lust Killer” and the “Shoe Fetish Slayer,”...
Neighborhood Secrets
One of the most spectacular criminal cases in Berlin in the 1930s was the murder on January 20, 1931, at the Mercedes-Palast, Europe’s largest cinema and variety theater. That evening, thousands of people flocked to the Berlin entertainment temple at Hermannstraße 214 to first...
Berlin-Marzahn, a district in eastern Berlin, was terrorized by a series of shocking phone calls between 1985 and 1987. These calls came from an anonymous perpetrator who incited children to commit deadly acts and sexually harassed women. The case attracted little public attention at...
Between 2002 and 2004, nine horribly mutilated young women were found in the woods or at a landfill site in the area around the Bavarian town of Landshut. The bodies of the young women showed horrific injuries to the abdominal area, but had not...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. Between 2015 and 2018, this 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari fittings company in the...
The picturesque Spanish island of Tenerife is a popular holiday destination for tourists from all over the world, offering not only beautiful beaches but also numerous towns with their own distinctive charm. One of these towns is Ten Bel in the south of the...
