Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
For thousands of years, poison has been used as a murder weapon, and it was particularly popular amongst women, as it required no physical violence whatsoever to kill the victim. One woman who employed this method was Milica Vukobrankovics de Vuko et Branko. This...
One of the greatest criminals in French history was François Ravaillac, who treacherously murdered King Henry IV. But why? François Ravaillac was born in 1578 in Touvre, near Angoulême. He grew up in modest circumstances with his mother, a devout Catholic. For a time,...
For over six years, between 1991 and 1997, a serial killer and rapist terrorised the streets of Paris, preying on young women. During this period, a total of seven women were raped, tied up and had their throats slit. As the murders took place...
The French capital, Paris, is regarded as the City of Love par excellence, where countless lovers have sworn eternal love at its landmark, the legendary Eiffel Tower. Yet ‘la ville d’amour’ also has a dark side, where murderers and criminals have been wreaking havoc...
On 22 April 1960, the very day on which, over 90 years ago, the Marxist, revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin also came into the world in Rostov-on-Don. At that time, no one could have...
Herrman Webster Mudgett, better known as Henry Howard Holmes, was a notorious serial killer who built a hotel in order to torture women there. This man, who during the day posed as a friendly hotelier, turned out at night – according to the sensationalist...
