Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Alexe Katharina Popov, alias Madame Popova, killed over 300 men between 1879 and 1909, not for financial gain, but to free married women from their tyrannical husbands. Madame Popova, from the Russian city of Samara, was an advocate of women’s liberation, as she herself...
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An incredibly cruel murder took place in Athens in 2015. On April 21, 2015, 25-year-old Dimitria Borisova reported her 4-year-old daughter Ani missing to the police. Dimitria had left her daughter with a friend named Sylvia because she had to travel to Germany on...
A monastery that would fit perfectly into any horror movie was the Mariaberg monastery just outside Aachen. This monastery with its high walls was run by the Alexian Brothers, a Catholic lay order. The monastery was considered a sanatorium that, in addition to nursing...
A truly gruesome cannibal who went down in French criminal history as a serial killer was Blaize Ferrage, better known as Seyé. Blaize Ferrage was born in 1755 in the French village of Ceseau. Although small in stature, he possessed enormous muscular strength. Blaize...
The last execution by the cruel method of breaking wheel in Austria took place on March 10, 1786, on the noble Viennese magistrate Franz Edler von Zahlheim, under Emperor Joseph II, who was a declared opponent of the death penalty. This was also the...
A serial killer who terrorized Czech women was 32-year-old Václav Mrázek, who murdered seven women between 1951 and 1956, the highest number of victims in the post-war history of the Czech Republic. Václav was born on October 22, 1925, and grew up in poor...
