Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in a small apartment. The attractive, pregnant woman was last seen alive when she got...
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom. In the past, people often ate their soup with bread. As the soup was...
The Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a highly volatile political period in which the old feudal system clashed with the new liberal spirit of the times. Since early October 1867, 34-year-old...
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Germany was the case of Hans Hetzel, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years. But how could this have happened? Hans Hetzel, a trained butcher and married family man, had picked up a young woman named...
To this day, the ruins of Weibertreu Castle in Weinsberg—which the famous senior physician Justinus Kerner saved from ruin by founding the Weinsberg Women’s Association together with six women on December 8, 1823—stand as a testament to one of the oldest aristocratic castles in...
After the end of World War II, there was great hardship in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube. There was a shortage of food, consumer goods, and housing. During these hard times, 27-year-old textile engineer Julius Kausel landed a lucrative job as managing director...
