Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
On his day off, February 20, 1995, 44-year-old detective Christian Gillinger was up early to buy his 8-year-old son’s favorite doughnuts at a small pastry shop in Vienna’s Hietzing district for his birthday party. Suddenly, a young, dark-haired man entered the small café and...
One of the most dangerous criminal gangs of the postwar era, which terrorized all of Munich, was the Panther Gang. The leader of this ruthless gang was Hugo Werner, a 21-year-old Munich bricklayer’s apprentice and former model student who, as a bookworm, loved to...
Mathias Kneißl was a true bandit legend who continues to inspire countless films and books to this day. This last bandit of Bavaria was born on May 12, 1875, in Unterweikertshofen. Mathias was the eldest of five siblings. His father, also named Mathias, was...
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in a small apartment. The attractive, pregnant woman was last seen alive when she got...
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom. In the past, people often ate their soup with bread. As the soup was...
The Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a highly volatile political period in which the old feudal system clashed with the new liberal spirit of the times. Since early October 1867, 34-year-old...
