Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most notorious female serial killers in criminal history was the Italian Hieronyma Spara, born in Rome in the 17th century and better known as ‘La Spara’. She earned her living not only as a fortune-teller but also as a poisoner, helping...
The Dark Side of Humanity
A heinous crime took place in Leipzig in October 2011 against 23-year-old Jonathan H., who was raped, stabbed 22 times, castrated, dismembered and subsequently thrown into the Elster basin in bin bags. This gruesome crime came to light when, on a grey Sunday in...
The Russian Valery Georgievich Asratyan, better known as ‘the Director’, was a paedophile, serial rapist and murderer of young girls. He was born in 1958 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. He grew up in a loving and well-off family, but even at nursery school...
The year is 1854. At that time, Mrs Jacob, a widow, lived with her lovely daughter Marie in a house on Breiten Gang in the Neustadt district of Hamburg. The widow, who worked as a laundress, was extremely well-liked in the neighbourhood. She and...
A truly gripping crime thriller centred on dumplings laced with arsenic took place in Britain after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The petite Elizabeth Fenning, known as Eliza, had been working as a maid since she was 14. Eliza, now 21, had already...
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born in 1933 in the Belgian village of Overmere. At the age of just 15,...
