Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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...
Religious Extremism
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...
A cinematic murder took place on May 13, 2011, in an Asian shop in the popular Valdés shopping center in Los Cristianos, Tenerife. On that day, 60-year-old British woman Jennifer Mills-Westley was decapitated in broad daylight. Her murderer was 28-year-old homeless Bulgarian Deyan Deyanov...
One of the most famous witch trials in German history was the Pappenheimer case. It took place in Munich in 1600 and led to the brutal extermination of an entire family. Paulus Gämperl was born in the small village of Hüttlingen in 1542. He...
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 horrific execution of two innocent Scandinavian students took place in the Atlas Mountains in mid-December 2018. On December 8, 24-year-old Danish student Luisa Vestrager Jespersen and 28-year-old Norwegian student Maren Ueland landed in Morocco to explore the country with their backpacks. Both were...
