Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The public often had mixed feelings towards criminals on their way to execution at Tyburn. Although the accused had committed crimes, many people wanted to watch the executions, particularly if the condemned showed courage and staged their deaths almost as a spectacle. The crowd...
Satanic Panic
In the annals of German criminal history, there are names that still send shivers down the spine even today. One such name is Kuno Hofmann, better known as the ‘Vampire of Nuremberg’. His crimes, which caused a sensation in the early 1970s, represent a...
In the small, secluded village of Saint-Eyr-la-Rossière, where the sun rose over the rolling hills and the birds chirped merrily, lived a child who was a world away from these idyllic scenes. This child was the 10-year-old Honorine Pellois, the daughter of a poor...
John Francis Duffy and David Mulcahy, better known as the Railway Rapists and Railway Killers, were a murderous duo who, in the 1980s, preyed on women at remote railway stations around London, raping them and later killing some of them. The two had met...
As the “Witch of the Super-Rich,” Catherine Monvoisin—also known as “La Voisin”—made her mark on 17th-century French criminal history. She exploited the intrigues and desires that prevailed at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, in Paris. This allowed Catherine to rise into...
The sadistic serial killer Werner Kniesek went down in criminal history as one of Austria’s most dangerous criminals. Werner went off the rails at a young age, stealing, skipping school, and repeatedly running away from home. For these reasons, on June 5, 1962, his...
