Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
1672 is considered the year of catastrophe for the Netherlands, known as the “Rampjaar,” during which a brutal lynching of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt took place, based on a diabolical plot. For two decades, from 1650 to 1672, the country experienced...
One of the most prolific and, at the same time, most cruel female serial killers in criminal history was Belle Gunness, better known as ‘the Black Widow’. She was a woman standing 1.83 metres tall and weighing over 90 kilograms, who is said to...
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a period of two decades using arsenic, driven purely...
It was 1937 when, on the evening of 11 March, the carpenter Leopold Hasel turned up at the Landstraße police station at Gürtel 252 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. There, he told the duty officer that a terrible crime had taken place in his house,...
A serial killer who abducted babies from their prams in order to sexually abuse them and then kill them was the Russian Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryuko, better known as the Baby Hunter. In the autumn of 1977, he struck fear into the hearts of the...
In Baden-Württemberg, there are over 400 cold cases whose files eventually end up in the police archives. One of these cold cases took place in 1985 in the picturesque city of Konstanz, the jewel of Lake Constance. On 11 November 1985, 22-year-old student Christa...
