Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of Germany’s most spectacular series of robbery-murders took place in the mid-1980s. At remote rest stops, a masked man would lie in wait for lone men, whom he shot in cold blood so he could use their cars to rob a bank. The...
On the morning of September 1, 1928, a shootout straight out of a Western movie took place on Rilkeplatz in Vienna’s 4th district, Wieden. This was because the shooter, Gabor Bodony, was a well-known performer from Budapest who appeared in various variety shows in...
The love story of Wilhelm Dengler and Emilie Stadler could easily have come straight out of a soap opera script. When the handsome goldsmith from Ludwigsburg caught sight of the young, attractive Emilie Stadler at his friend’s wedding in 1845, he was instantly smitten....
One of the most popular—and perhaps even the most popular—methods women use to kill someone is poison. Poisoning is considered particularly sophisticated, which is why women have long been associated with it. Even in Greek mythology, there was the deadly poisoner Medea. She was...
It was 1922 when, on July 17, a hot summer day, a farmer found a package in a cornfield in Vienna’s 11th district, Simmering. Since it had bloodstains and smelled strongly of decay, the farmer alerted the police. When they opened the package, not...
Suicide or murder, that was the question in the Paul Blomert case, which dominated the media landscape throughout Germany in 1961. But what had happened? On August 25, 1961, around noon, Ursula Blomert found her husband Paul Blomert lying bleeding on the floor of...
