One of the most popular—and perhaps even the most popular—methods women use to kill someone is poison. Poisoning is considered particularly sophisticated, which is why women have long been associated with it. Even in Greek mythology, there was the deadly poisoner Medea. She was...
Neighborhood Secrets
One of the biggest manhunts of the post-war period, which lasted over two years and was the most expensive search in the history of the Federal Republic, was for Bruno Fabeyer. This 1.75-meter-tall, slim man with medium-blond hair was born on June 4, 1926,...
A slight, pale man with a neatly combed side parting and rimless glasses managed, over a period of more than ten years, not only to gain control over an educated French aristocratic family spanning three generations, but also to deprive them of their entire...
One of the worst serial killers in Russian criminal history is Alexander Pichushkin, better known as the Chessboard Killer. He wanted to kill 64 people, the same number of squares on a chessboard. Alexander came up with this insane idea together with his classmate...
A true family tragedy that ended with the death of a tyrant took place on November 22, 1923, in the Danube metropolis of Vienna. That night, 46-year-old restaurateur August Fritschko, better known as Revolver-Gustl because he always carried a loaded gun with him despite...
Love can be deadly, as proven by a criminal case that took place in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube, in 1937. In 1934, 54-year-old wealthy Italian fruit merchant Domenico Perotti from Vienna met and fell in love with 35-year-old Lilly Goldreich, a beautiful...
