One of the most spectacular cases in French criminal history was the Gouffé case. Toussaint-Agustin Gouffé was a 49-year-old widowed court clerk who had two daughters and lived in Paris. This respectable man was reported missing to the police on July 26, 1889. A...
Neighborhood Secrets
Since time immemorial, torture has been a popular method of tormenting people until they reveal information. Torture is particularly popular among criminal organizations as a means of inflicting physical and mental pain on their rivals and relatives. One such criminal organization, which even set...
One of the most brutal murders in Austrian criminal history, which even led to a parliamentary debate on tougher sentencing, took place on January 8, 1960. But first things first. On the morning of January 12, 1960, a pensioner found large meaty bones wrapped...
British serial killer couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were described as the spawn of hell, shocking an entire nation after raping, torturing, and murdering innocent children. This serial killer couple went down in British criminal history as the Moors Murderers, as they committed...
One of Austria’s most thrilling criminal cases involves the gruesome murders of women by Wolfang Ott, whose crimes only came to light by chance. It all began with cries for help from a woman that residents heard coming from a house in Vienna’s 23rd...
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....
