Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A criminal case that made headlines across Germany took place in Mönchengladbach in 1952. It was 27 January when the utterly distraught 31-year-old sexton, Hans Helpenstein, reported his wife missing at the Mönchengladbach police station at around 11.35 pm. He had last seen his...
The Dark Side of Humanity
A horrific execution of two innocent Scandinavian female students took place in mid-December 2018 in the Atlas Mountains. On December 8, 24-year-old Danish student Luisa Vestrager Jespersen and her 28-year-old Norwegian classmate Maren Ueland had arrived in Morocco to explore the country as backpackers....
A serial killer who, according to rumors, sold canned sausages containing human flesh at the Schlesischer Bahnhof in Berlin was the peddler Carl Großmann. This ruthless serial killer, who allegedly slaughtered 23 women in cold blood on his wooden bench, was born on December...
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...
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...
