Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
An eight-month-long account by 40-year-old Inger Lise Bakken has gone down in Norwegian criminal history; it was so gruesome and yet so heart-rending that the public dubbed it ‘The Diary of Horror’. In it, Inger recorded her ordeal right up to her slow and...
The Dark Side of Humanity
Thomas S., better known as the Cannibal of Koblenz, was a man-eater who cooked body parts with rice in the oven. The victim of the unemployed electrician was his 22-year-old cousin, Sabine L., with whom he lived in a flat in an attic near...
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a legendary figure who went down in Russian history as an itinerant preacher, miracle healer, advisor to the Tsar and sexual predator. Grigori Rasputin was a farmer’s son who hailed from the West Siberian village of Pokrovskoye and travelled the...
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, who poisoned her husbands in order to get her hands on their fortunes. Mary was born on 11 June 1889 as Mary Elizabeth...
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving a life sentence. Yet this is exactly what happened in the summer of 1977....
One of the largest arsenic poisonings in human history, affecting more than 200 people, took place in Britain in 1858. But how on earth did it come about? It all took place in the quiet town of Bradford in the English county of West...
