Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
The name Jerome Henry “Jerry” Brudos is still synonymous with horror and revulsion today. He was an American serial killer and necrophiliac who terrorized the tranquil town of Salem, Oregon, in the late 1960s. Known as the “Lust Killer” and the “Shoe Fetish Slayer,”...
One of the most spectacular criminal cases in Berlin in the 1930s was the murder on January 20, 1931, at the Mercedes-Palast, Europe’s largest cinema and variety theater. That evening, thousands of people flocked to the Berlin entertainment temple at Hermannstraße 214 to first...
Rumors and scandals constantly swirl around the world of the rich and famous, and few stories are as shocking as that of Jamila M’Barek, former Playboy model and wife of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, one of the richest men in Britain....
Berlin-Marzahn, a district in eastern Berlin, was terrorized by a series of shocking phone calls between 1985 and 1987. These calls came from an anonymous perpetrator who incited children to commit deadly acts and sexually harassed women. The case attracted little public attention at...
Between 2002 and 2004, nine horribly mutilated young women were found in the woods or at a landfill site in the area around the Bavarian town of Landshut. The bodies of the young women showed horrific injuries to the abdominal area, but had not...
One of the most ruthless serial killers in German criminal history is Klaus O., better known as the Butter Sandwich Killer. Between 2015 and 2018, this 57-year-old father of two poisoned the lunch sandwiches of his colleagues at the Ari fittings company in the...
