Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
On 22 April 1960, the very day on which, over 90 years ago, the Marxist, revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin also came into the world in Rostov-on-Don. At that time, no one could have...
Neighborhood Secrets
A heinous crime took place in Leipzig in October 2011 against 23-year-old Jonathan H., who was raped, stabbed 22 times, castrated, dismembered and subsequently thrown into the Elster basin in bin bags. This gruesome crime came to light when, on a grey Sunday in...
The Russian Valery Georgievich Asratyan, better known as ‘the Director’, was a paedophile, serial rapist and murderer of young girls. He was born in 1958 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. He grew up in a loving and well-off family, but even at nursery school...
A truly gripping crime thriller centred on dumplings laced with arsenic took place in Britain after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The petite Elizabeth Fenning, known as Eliza, had been working as a maid since she was 14. Eliza, now 21, had already...
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born in 1933 in the Belgian village of Overmere. At the age of just 15,...
Glasgow remains Scotland’s most dangerous city, where the murderer Susan Newell once wreaked havoc. She was the last woman in Scotland to be hanged as a result of a death sentence in the courtyard of Duke Street Prison, Glasgow’s women’s prison. Today, the Cathedral...
