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...
Unsolved Cases
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...
One of the most sinister criminal cases in the history of Houston, the fourth largest city in America in the state of Texas, is the murder of Fred and Edwina Rogers. It was June 23, 1965, when Marvin Marlin, Edwina and Fred’s nephew, called...
One of the most mysterious cases in American criminal history was the disappearance of 15-year-old teenager Eyelyn Hartley. She disappeared from La Crosse County on October 24, 1953, leading to the largest manhunt in the history of the state of Wisconsin. On that day,...
