Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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...
John Francis Duffy and David Mulcahy, better known as the Railway Rapists and Railway Killers, were a murderous duo who, in the 1980s, preyed on women at remote railway stations around London, raping them and later killing some of them. The two had met...
Valeria Messalina, a Roman woman, was regarded not only as an insatiable nymphomaniac but also as a cold-blooded murderer with numerous lives on her conscience. She was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, whose unbridled sex life provided ample fodder for gossip...
The Padrón Guesthouse in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a guesthouse where two people lost their lives in a gruesome manner. The scene of the crime was Room 306, which was occupied by José Antonio Luis Aguiar, better known as EL Jala. On 25...
There are serial murder cases so incomprehensible that only a madman could have committed them. The ever-friendly detective Serhij Tkach, who is considered one of the world’s worst mass murderers, was exactly that sort of man. Tkach was born on 12 September 1952 in...
Count Alfred Julien Gabriel Gérard Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé was an insidious poisoner who came from the highest echelons of Belgian aristocracy. He was the son of Count Julien Visart de Bocarmé and Ida du Chasteler, and was born in 1818 during a stormy,...
