Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March 22, 1879, after returning from church, she was killed and brutally dismembered by her...
Neighborhood Secrets
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. As this was an effective painkiller that calmed the wounded, he named his...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. This 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari valve manufacturing company in the town of Schloß...
Of all days, a brutal murder took place in Vienna on New Year’s Day 2023. That morning, Wojeiech M., a 51-year-old homeless Polish man suffering from severe alcoholism, was out and about in Vienna’s 22nd district, Donaustadt, looking for alcohol. He was specifically looking...
One of the most intelligent female serial killers was Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinius, whose murder weapon was the poison arsenic. Her gripping series of murders led to the development of a groundbreaking, legally admissible method of detecting arsenic poisoning. Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth von Weingarten...
Known as the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” the Irish sisters Catherine and Margaret Flannagan went down in English criminal history; they were so famous that their wax figures were on display for nearly a century in Madame Tussauds’ “Chamber of Horrors” in London. In...
