Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
A criminal case that made headlines across Germany took place in Mönchengladbach in 1952. It was 27 January when the utterly distraught 31-year-old sexton, Hans Helpenstein, reported his wife missing at the Mönchengladbach police station at around 11.35 pm. He had last seen his...
A horrific execution of two innocent Scandinavian female students took place in mid-December 2018 in the Atlas Mountains. On December 8, 24-year-old Danish student Luisa Vestrager Jespersen and her 28-year-old Norwegian classmate Maren Ueland had arrived in Morocco to explore the country as backpackers....
A serial killer who, according to rumors, sold canned sausages containing human flesh at the Schlesischer Bahnhof in Berlin was the peddler Carl Großmann. This ruthless serial killer, who allegedly slaughtered 23 women in cold blood on his wooden bench, was born on December...
One of Ukraine’s most notorious serial killers was Anatoliy Yuriyevich Onopriyenko, who, between 1982 and 1996, cold-bloodedly murdered no fewer than 52 people, which is why he came to be known amongst the public as the ‘Terminator’, a killer machine. But who was this...
A criminal case that could easily have come straight out of a horror film took place in 1984 in Mönchengladbach, which, with its 272,000 inhabitants, is the largest city on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. It...
One death that continues to give rise to speculation to this day is that of Johann Georg Schrepfer. This controversial figure was not only active as a Freemason, but also as a spirit summoner, occultist and impostor. Through his séances – during which he...
