Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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...
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...
