Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
One of the largest arsenic poisonings in human history, affecting more than 200 people, took place in Britain in 1858. But how on earth did it come about? It all took place in the quiet town of Bradford in the English county of West...
DarkHistory
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among Scotland’s most notorious serial killers and end up on the gallows. But first things...
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were bludgeoned to death with a hammer or an axe in the Russian...
A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to death, took place between 1983 and 1990 in the Aachen area, which is why the media dubbed the perpetrator ‘The Strangler of Aachen’. The...
In 1986, a series of murders of four young men sent shockwaves through the gay community in the British capital, London. Within two months, four men were strangled, their bodies horrifically mutilated either before or after their deaths. The first victim was 37-year-old railway...
By chance, the Russian police uncovered one of the most notorious cannibal couples, who had dismembered more than 30 people and then preserved their body parts in preserving jars in order to eat them. But let’s take it one step at a time. It...
