Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March 22, 1879, after returning from church, she was killed and brutally dismembered by her...
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. As this was an effective painkiller that calmed the wounded, he named his...
A nun who, in the name of God, is believed to have more than 177 people to her name was the Greek woman Mariam Soulakiotis, better known as Mother Rasputin. She is not only regarded as one of Greece’s most notorious female serial killers,...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. This 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari valve manufacturing company in the town of Schloß...
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...
