Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Belgium’s deadliest serial killer is undoubtedly Marie Alexandrine Becker. She was born Marie Alexandrine Petitjean on July 14, 1879, in Landen, where she grew up on a farm. At the age of 16, Marie moved to the art city of Liège, where she worked...
Neighborhood Secrets
Jealousy can lead to danger and ultimately to murder. This was the fate of 46-year-old Juliane Karner, who was murdered by her own husband, 43-year-old Anton Karner, out of blind jealousy. But how did it come to this, that Anton Karner became a murderer?...
On May 12, 1854, the 19-year-old saddler’s apprentice Christian Hussendörfer achieved dubious fame that immortalized him forever in Munich’s city history. Christian Hussendörfer was an unmarried saddler’s apprentice in Syburg who liked to drink more than his fair share and stay out late into...
Even Marilyn Monroe knew that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” A young man took this to heart and, out of love, committed a fatal act of stupidity that changed his whole life. On December 8, 1908, the son of Viennese jeweler Julius Frankfurter...
A common motive for murder is jealousy, which can affect anyone, regardless of their intelligence, age, or social background. One person who was so plagued by jealousy that he wiped out an entire family was 26-year-old Andreas E. The young man was a trained...
In the 19th century, 36-year-old Maria Stupka went down in Vienna’s criminal history because her crime was so brutal. Maria Stupka was born in Beneschau. As a young woman, she moved to Vienna, where she lived as a single woman in a two-room apartment...
