Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A horrific series of murders of defenseless pensioners took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were killed with a hammer or axe in the Russian city of Krasnoufimsk in...
The Dark Side of Humanity
One of the most famous witch trials in German history was the Pappenheimer case. It took place in Munich in 1600 and led to the brutal extermination of an entire family. Paulus Gämperl was born in the small village of Hüttlingen in 1542. He...
Anna Delpech, better known as L’Ogresse, went down in French criminal history as a child murderer. The name was derived from Ogre, a man-eating monster in French mythology. In 1868, during the last two weeks of August, two women died in the French commune...
Alexe Katharina Popov, alias Madame Popova, killed over 300 men between 1879 and 1909, not for financial gain, but to free married women from their tyrannical husbands. Madame Popova, from the Russian city of Samara, was an advocate of women’s liberation, as she herself...
An incredibly cruel murder took place in Athens in 2015. On April 21, 2015, 25-year-old Dimitria Borisova reported her 4-year-old daughter Ani missing to the police. Dimitria had left her daughter with a friend named Sylvia because she had to travel to Germany on...
A monastery that would fit perfectly into any horror movie was the Mariaberg monastery just outside Aachen. This monastery with its high walls was run by the Alexian Brothers, a Catholic lay order. The monastery was considered a sanatorium that, in addition to nursing...
