Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Of all days, a brutal murder took place in Vienna on New Year’s Day 2023. That morning, Wojeiech M., a 51-year-old homeless Polish man suffering from severe alcoholism, was out and about in Vienna’s 22nd district, Donaustadt, looking for alcohol. He was specifically looking...
One of the worst serial murder cases in the Czech Republic took place between 2001 and 2002. During this period, eight defenceless elderly people were robbed and murdered in cold blood in the area around Kutná Hora. As the police initially assumed that three...
The greatest addiction of the Saxon pastor Johann Georg Tinius was his books, which ultimately led to his downfall. For in order to satisfy his addiction to books, he did not even shy away from committing murder. Johann Georg Tinius was born on October...
One of the most intelligent female serial killers was Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinius, whose murder weapon was the poison arsenic. Her gripping series of murders led to the development of a groundbreaking, legally admissible method of detecting arsenic poisoning. Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth von Weingarten...
The Czech police made a truly gruesome discovery in the large Orlík reservoir, situated south of Prague. There, inside a rusty barrel, they found a dismembered body that had been doused with caustic soda to cause it to decompose. Shortly afterwards, in the summer...
Known as the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” the Irish sisters Catherine and Margaret Flannagan went down in English criminal history; they were so famous that their wax figures were on display for nearly a century in Madame Tussauds’ “Chamber of Horrors” in London. In...
