Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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...
Religious Extremism
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...
