Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Of all days, a brutal murder took place in Vienna on New Year’s Day 2023. That morning, Wojeiech M., a 51-year-old homeless Polish man suffering from severe alcoholism, was out and about in Vienna’s 22nd district, Donaustadt, looking for alcohol. He was specifically looking...
Neighborhood Secrets
One of the most intelligent female serial killers was Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinius, whose murder weapon was the poison arsenic. Her gripping series of murders led to the development of a groundbreaking, legally admissible method of detecting arsenic poisoning. Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth von Weingarten...
Known as the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” the Irish sisters Catherine and Margaret Flannagan went down in English criminal history; they were so famous that their wax figures were on display for nearly a century in Madame Tussauds’ “Chamber of Horrors” in London. In...
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a period of two decades using arsenic, driven purely...
It was 1937 when, on the evening of 11 March, the carpenter Leopold Hasel turned up at the Landstraße police station at Gürtel 252 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. There, he told the duty officer that a terrible crime had taken place in his house,...
A Czech Robin Hood, revered in many popular Czech songs and novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a protector of the poor against the authorities, was the bandit chief Wenzel Babinsky. He was the son of a day labourer who...
