Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The charismatic Karl Hopf was a true devil in human form who invented a new scientific method of murder and went down in German criminal history as a serial killer. Karl Hopf was born on March 26, 1863, in Frankfurt am Main, the son...
Neighborhood Secrets
On a hot summer day in June 1847, the butcher’s apprentice Wilhelm Heinrich Armbruster was working in a field on Neckarweihinger Straße in Ludwigsburg. From a distance, he saw the cattle dealer Johann Gottlieb Winter, who was on his way to the Ludwigsburg cattle...
The disappearance of a 19-year-old actress named Tamara Teodorowitsch made headlines at the end of May 1959, with wild theories ranging from kidnapping to secret service involvement. Tamar Teodorowitsch was born on March 12, 1940, in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, the daughter of doctor Maria-Nadescha...
In the fog of the cruel past, a cruel memory emerges that makes your blood run cold. It was a cold morning in September 1913 when Ernst August Wagner, a respected village school principal from Degerloch, a district on the southern edge of downtown...
A scenario reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Rear Window” occurred on June 6, 1925. On that day, housekeeper Josefine Kaiser looked through her window into the apartment opposite, where 61-year-old widow Barbara Mitura usually cooked at lunchtime. But there was no sign of...
Delia Balmer experienced three years of living with a serial killer, knowing that she would be his next victim. In 1991, she met the sophisticated, 1.80-meter-tall, blond carpenter John Sweeney in a London pub. Delia Balmer, in her late 30s, was at the lowest...
