Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Andreas Bichel, from the Bavarian village of Regendorf, was a serial killer who lured young women into his woodshed between 1806 and 1808, killed them there and then dismembered their bodies into small pieces; he went down in German criminal history as the ‘Girl...
The Dark Side of Humanity
According to legend, the legendary Scottish Bean family was a whole clan that hunted people, not only to rob them but also to devour them with relish. They wreaked havoc during the reign of King James VI of Scotland in the 15th century. The...
Bruges, the romantic capital of the Belgian province of West Flanders, is regarded as the ultimate chocolate city. In the historic old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, there are over 50 chocolate shops, and once a year the ‘Bruges in Choc’ chocolate festival...
One of the most brutal mass murderers in Austrian criminal history was Ernst Dostal. He went down in history as the subject of the largest manhunt in the Second Republic of Austria. On 13 June 1973, gendarmes made a gruesome discovery near a bridge...
This question remains unanswered to this day, making it one of Germany’s most mysterious cold cases. The New Year of 1994 was barely six hours old when a horrific crime took place in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Twenty-year-old Claudia Hucke, who worked as...
The Bellwinkel trial is considered one of the most gripping criminal cases in Germany. At its center was 61-year-old senior building inspector Ludwig Bellwinkel from Kempen on the Lower Rhine, who had been charged with the murder of his first and second wives. Bellwinkel...
