Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring. Following an examination by the medical officer, who found bruises on her buttocks, it...
Neighborhood Secrets
In September 2022, 56-year-old tailor Kazim Tatar was reported missing after returning from his holiday in Turkey. Since then, there had been no trace of him. What was initially regarded as a harmless missing persons case turned out to be a diabolically orchestrated murder...
One of the most chilling female serial killers in criminal history was the 15-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Bougaran, who, in an extremely perfidious manner, killed the children entrusted to her care whilst working as a nanny. Marie-Françoise was born on 4 September 1850 in the...
A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born in Vienna on 12 November 1893. Her parents were...
The seaside resort of Zinnowitz, in the north of the island of Usedom, is regarded as a popular holiday paradise on the picturesque Baltic Sea coast. In this idyllic Baltic resort, surrounded by unspoilt oak, beech and coniferous woodland and renowned for its magnificent...
The French capital, Paris, is regarded as the City of Love par excellence, where countless lovers have sworn eternal love at its landmark, the legendary Eiffel Tower. Yet ‘la ville d’amour’ also has a dark side, where murderers and criminals have been wreaking havoc...
