Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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’...
Religious Extremism
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...
Brazil’s most notorious serial killer and religious fanatic is undoubtedly Marcelo Costa de Andrade, who in 1991 raped and murdered fourteen boys aged between 5 and 13 in the vicinity of Itaboraí, about 30 kilometers from the city of Niterói in the Brazilian state...
A young woman who underwent no fewer than 67 exorcisms shortly before her death between September 24, 1975, and June 30, 1976, was 23-year-old Anna Elisabeth Michael, known as Anneliese. One day after her last exorcism, she died on July 1, 1967, from extreme...
