Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a period of two decades using arsenic, driven purely...
Neighborhood Secrets
It was 1937 when, on the evening of 11 March, the carpenter Leopold Hasel turned up at the Landstraße police station at Gürtel 252 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. There, he told the duty officer that a terrible crime had taken place in his house,...
A Czech Robin Hood, revered in many popular Czech songs and novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a protector of the poor against the authorities, was the bandit chief Wenzel Babinsky. He was the son of a day labourer who...
Marie Besnard went down in French criminal history as the “Poisoner of Loudon,” accused of poisoning 12 people with arsenic. The murder trial, which lasted nearly 10 years, is considered one of the most gripping in the history of the French justice system. Marie,...
Sometimes love turns to hate, or worse still, murder. This became a reality in the case of 22-year-old Franz Stockreiter. He simply could not come to terms with the break-up from his great love, Leopoldine R. For weeks after the split, he had been...
The Italian Countess Pia Bellentani caused a scandal in Italian high society. On 15 September 1948, at the legendary luxury hotel Villa d’Este on the western shore of Lake Como, she shot her lover, the Milanese industrial magnate Carlo Sacchi. But how could such...
