Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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...
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among Scotland’s most notorious serial killers and end up on the gallows. But first things...
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were bludgeoned to death with a hammer or an axe in the Russian...
A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to death, took place between 1983 and 1990 in the Aachen area, which is why the media dubbed the perpetrator ‘The Strangler of Aachen’. The...
