Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born in 1933 in the Belgian village of Overmere. At the age of just 15,...
Neighborhood Secrets
Glasgow remains Scotland’s most dangerous city, where the murderer Susan Newell once wreaked havoc. She was the last woman in Scotland to be hanged as a result of a death sentence in the courtyard of Duke Street Prison, Glasgow’s women’s prison. Today, the Cathedral...
John George Haigh went down in criminal history as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’. This British serial killer murdered six people out of greed. He always followed the same modus operandi. He lured his victims into his workshop, where he shot them in the back...
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March 22, 1879, after returning from church, she was killed and brutally dismembered by her...
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. As this was an effective painkiller that calmed the wounded, he named his...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. This 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari valve manufacturing company in the town of Schloß...
