Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving a life sentence. Yet this is exactly what happened in the summer of 1977....
Neighborhood Secrets
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among Scotland’s most notorious serial killers and end up on the gallows. But first things...
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were bludgeoned to death with a hammer or an axe in the Russian...
Arwed Imiela was a man whom women trusted blindly and who shamelessly exploited that trust to enrich himself at their expense. He was not only a ruthless con artist but also a cold-blooded serial killer. But let’s take it one step at a time....
A crime that shocked the world because it was so heinous and yet fascinating at the same time took place in 1981 in France’s capital, Paris. It was June 11 when Dutch student Renée Hartevelt was invited to dinner at the apartment of her...
A true master of arsenic poisoning, who managed to poison no fewer than 36 people over a period of 18 years without ever being detected, was the French serial killer and compulsive kleptomaniac Hélène Jégado. But who was this woman who took so many...
