Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In June 1982, one of Italy’s most influential bankers was murdered; the killing was staged to look like a suicide in order to cover up the dubious financial dealings between the Vatican and the Mafia. It was 17 June 1982 when postman Anthony Huntley...
Unsolved Cases
A spectacular murder case that still sends shivers down the spine today took place in Wiener Neustadt in 1973. It was 3 March 1973 when 11-year-old Gabriele K. was on her way home from school. As she did every day, she walked through the...
One of the most mysterious cases in German criminal history is the murder of the ballet master Hans Storck. It was 22 May 1962 when 13-year-old Axel Rumpf von Mansfeld, who was staying with his grandmother for a few days at her flat at...
In Baden-Württemberg, there are over 400 cold cases whose files eventually end up in the police archives. One of these cold cases took place in 1985 in the picturesque city of Konstanz, the jewel of Lake Constance. On 11 November 1985, 22-year-old student Christa...
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train station milieu were tied up, sexually abused, mistreated, and then...
Vienna’s city center, known for its magnificent buildings, was shaken by a disturbing event in December 2018. Amidst the festively decorated streets, bustling with locals and tourists, the sharp bang of several gunshots echoed. The echo of this violence shattered the idyll of the...
