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...
Ritualistic Crimes
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train station milieu were tied up, sexually abused, mistreated, and then...
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...
In the dark depths of India’s criminal history, the name KD Kempamma, also known as Cyanide Mallika, stands out as one of the most notorious female serial killers. As India’s first convicted female serial killer, she began her murderous journey in 1999 and left...
One of the most horrific crimes in Philadelphia’s history is the case of serial killer Harrison Graham, better known as the Cookie Monster Killer. Graham earned this nickname because he always carried a Cookie Monster doll with him since his youth. Graham was downright...
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...
