Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
It was a cool autumn morning in 1977 when two concerned ladies walked into the Tübingen Institute unannounced. Holding a jar of blackberry compote in their hands, they asked for it to be tested for the presence of poison. What initially appeared to be...
Neighborhood Secrets
Berlin-Marzahn, a district in the east of Berlin, was plunged into fear and terror between 1985 and 1987 by a series of shocking telephone calls. These calls came from an anonymous perpetrator who incited children to commit lethal acts and sexually harassed women. The...
7 July 1997 is a date that has gone down in Belgian criminal history. On that day, driven by rage and jealousy, Remy Lecrenier committed a brutal series of murders in the small village of Bas-Oha near Liège. The events of that day and...
Santorini, one of Greece’s most picturesque and idyllic islands, is renowned for its breathtaking sunsets, white houses and sparkling waters. Yet in 2008, this idyll was overshadowed by a gruesome crime that even the locals would never have thought possible. Athanassios Arvanitis, a 31-year-old...
In the gloomy streets of Victorian Essex lived a woman whose name still sends shivers down the spine today: Sarah Chesham, better known as ‘Sally Arsenic’. Her story is a chilling testament to the dark side of human nature and the deadly power of...
Aleksandr Andreevich Rubel, born on 25 December 1980 in Ukraine, became one of Estonia’s most notorious serial killers. His brutal crimes between 1997 and 1998 led to his conviction for six counts of murder. Convicted as a minor, he received the maximum sentence of...
