Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
An intriguing criminal case, which had to be pieced together like a puzzle, unfolded on May 11, 2006. That night, a hemp plantation ready for harvest in Venray, north of the Dutch city of Venlo, was raided. A few hours later, the police discovered...
HistoricalCrimes
A criminal case as tricky as a puzzle took place in 1998. On November 23, around 9 a.m., a cyclist discovered the body of a young woman near the Dutch city of Venlo; she was covered in leaves from the local trees. The deceased...
One of the most notorious murder cases in Spanish criminal history involves the so-called Alcásser girls. These were three girls—Miriam García Iborra, Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, and Desirée Hernández Folch—from the Spanish village of Alcásser. These 14- to 15-year-old girls were abducted, brutally raped, tortured...
The worst female poisoner of all time, who is even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was Maria Catharina Swanenberg, better known as “Goeie Mie,” which means “Good Mia” in English. Good Mia is said to have been responsible for more than...
A shabby semi-detached house at 25 Cromwell Street in the tranquil county of Gloucester in southwest England went down in English criminal history as the “House of Horror.” The house was purchased in 1972 by Rosemary and Frederick West, a couple known for being...
Christa Lehmann was a serial killer who went down in German criminal history as the “Poison Witch of Worms.” The mother of four was the first person in Germany to use the highly toxic, over-the-counter pesticide E 605 as a lethal weapon, and it...
