Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The greatest addiction of the Saxon pastor Johann Georg Tinius was his books, which ultimately led to his downfall. For in order to satisfy his addiction to books, he did not even shy away from committing murder. Johann Georg Tinius was born on October...
One of the most intelligent female serial killers was Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinius, whose murder weapon was the poison arsenic. Her gripping series of murders led to the development of a groundbreaking, legally admissible method of detecting arsenic poisoning. Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth von Weingarten...
The Czech police made a truly gruesome discovery in the large Orlík reservoir, situated south of Prague. There, inside a rusty barrel, they found a dismembered body that had been doused with caustic soda to cause it to decompose. Shortly afterwards, in the summer...
Known as the “Black Widows of Liverpool,” the Irish sisters Catherine and Margaret Flannagan went down in English criminal history; they were so famous that their wax figures were on display for nearly a century in Madame Tussauds’ “Chamber of Horrors” in London. In...
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...
