Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of Ukraine’s most notorious serial killers was Anatoliy Yuriyevich Onopriyenko, who, between 1982 and 1996, cold-bloodedly murdered no fewer than 52 people, which is why he came to be known amongst the public as the ‘Terminator’, a killer machine. But who was this...
The Dark Side of Humanity
On July 14, 2019, a German tourist discovered the severely decomposed body of a woman in an abandoned mine shaft not far from the village of Mitsero. The body had been washed out of the mine shaft and onto the surface by heavy rains....
One of the most famous matricides was Orestes from Greek mythology. Another man who committed matricide – the technical term for when a child kills their mother – was Kalistros Max Thielicke. Kalistros’s murder of his mother in early August 1930 shocked the whole...
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...
Valeria Messalina, a Roman woman, was regarded not only as an insatiable nymphomaniac but also as a cold-blooded murderer with numerous lives on her conscience. She was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, whose unbridled sex life provided ample fodder for gossip...
The Padrón Guesthouse in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a guesthouse where two people lost their lives in a gruesome manner. The scene of the crime was Room 306, which was occupied by José Antonio Luis Aguiar, better known as EL Jala. On 25...
