Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The last woman to be convicted under a British witchcraft law from 1735, the so-called “Witchcraft Act,” was 46-year-old Scot Helen Duncan, better known as “Hellish Nell.” The Witchcraft Act did not criminalize witchcraft itself, but rather the exploitation of belief in witches for...
Religious Extremism
The Frauenkirche is undoubtedly the landmark of the Elbe metropolis of Dresden. The foundation stone for the Protestant church was laid on August 26, 1726. For the Lutheran citizens of Dresden, the Frauenkirche was their symbol of the Reformation. This was because the city...
The city of Roermond, located in the Dutch province of Limburg on the border with Germany and close to Belgium, was once the scene of a bloody massacre in which 13 priests and monks were slaughtered on July 27, 1572, during the Eighty Years’...
A truly insidious murder of absolute brutality took place long ago in the bishopric city of Speyer. The year was 1277 when, on Good Friday of all days, cathedral dean Albrecht von Mußbach was lynched in an inconceivably cruel manner by unknown assailants. The...
The dark reign of the self-proclaimed prophet and cult leader of the Ant Hill Kids: Roch Thériault
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The Ant Hill Kids, led by self-proclaimed prophet Roch Thériault, are considered one of the most bizarre cults in Canadian history. His dark reign began in 1977 with the founding of the doomsday cult Ant Hill Kids, which was based on the beliefs of...
The story of Colombian serial killer and rapist Daniel Camargo Barbosa is one of the most horrific and gruesome tales imaginable. A man whose life was marked by suffering and darkness from the very beginning, he became one of the most cruel killers in...
