Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
Once upon a time in Finland, the land of 1,000 lakes, a serial killer named Matti Heikinpoika Haapoja was on the loose. According to some sources, he was responsible for the deaths of over 20 people and was as popular as a rock star...
FromPastToPresent
One of the most notorious serial killers in Scandinavian history is the Norwegian Arnfinn Nesset, who is said to have killed over 100 patients during his career as a nurse. However, only 22 murders of patients could actually be proven. Arnfinn Nesset was born...
One of Germany’s most notorious serial killers was Volker Eckert, better known as the long-distance lorry driver from Hof. He committed his first murder as a teenager on 7 May 1974 in Plauen, killing his 14-year-old classmate Sylvia U. He strangled her and then...
Austria’s longest-serving prisoner, who spent no less than 51 of his 74 years in prison, was Josef Weinwurm. He went down in Vienna’s criminal history as the opera murderer. On 12 March 1963, he murdered 11-year-old ballet student Dagmar Fuhrich with a 12-centimetre knife,...
In early 1973, 13-year-old Paul Martin Andrews experienced a true nightmare when he was not only kidnapped, but also locked in a damp wooden box buried in the forest, chained, beaten and raped several times a day over a period of eight days. It...
A story that sounds like something out of a horror film is that of Thadius ‘Thad’ Phillips, a 12-year-old boy who was kidnapped by a sadistic monster and tortured for 43 hours. This monster was 17-year-old Joseph ‘Joe’ Clark, better known as the Bone...
