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...
Neighborhood Secrets
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...
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...
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...
