On July 24, 1884, around midnight, the engineer of the express freight train from Vienna to Marchegg saw a person lying on the tracks in the headlights near Gänserndorf. The engineer immediately applied the brakes and the train stopped just before reaching the body....
The Dark Side of Humanity
The charismatic Karl Hopf was a true devil in human form who invented a new scientific method of murder and went down in German criminal history as a serial killer. Karl Hopf was born on March 26, 1863, in Frankfurt am Main, the son...
On a hot summer day in June 1847, the butcher’s apprentice Wilhelm Heinrich Armbruster was working in a field on Neckarweihinger Straße in Ludwigsburg. From a distance, he saw the cattle dealer Johann Gottlieb Winter, who was on his way to the Ludwigsburg cattle...
In June 2010, two brutal attacks on female taxi drivers in the Lake Constance area shook the whole of Germany. The perpetrator, 28-year-old Andrej W., went down in criminal history as the taxi murderer of Lake Constance. He is still considered highly dangerous to...
In the fog of the cruel past, a cruel memory emerges that makes your blood run cold. It was a cold morning in September 1913 when Ernst August Wagner, a respected village school principal from Degerloch, a district on the southern edge of downtown...
A scenario reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Rear Window” occurred on June 6, 1925. On that day, housekeeper Josefine Kaiser looked through her window into the apartment opposite, where 61-year-old widow Barbara Mitura usually cooked at lunchtime. But there was no sign of...
