Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
In 1849, a gruesome crime in London captured the public’s attention and left a lasting mark on history. Marie Manning, née de Roux, was born in Switzerland in 1821 and later emigrated to Great Britain. There she worked as a maid for the wealthy...
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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.” This house was purchased in 1972 by Rosemary and Frederick West, helpful and friendly neighbors. No...
A brutal murder took place on the night of March 9-10, 2012, shocking both Switzerland and Austria. That night, 28-year-old Swiss man John K. booked 44-year-old Austrian escort Claudia B. through an agency for erotic services. The meeting place was the Avia gas station...
On March 5, 2016, Rome was confronted with one of the most cruel murders in its history: in a dilapidated apartment in the Collatino district, the Carabinieri found the lifeless body of 23-year-old Luca Varani, stabbed over 100 times with a kitchen knife stuck...
A notorious serial killer who built a hotel to torture women was Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as Henry Howard Holmes. According to the sensationalist press, this man, who pretended to be a friendly hotelier during the day, turned out to be a murderous...
A criminal case that could have come straight out of a horror movie took place in 1984 in Mönchengladbach, which, with its 272,000 inhabitants, is the largest city on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in western North Rhine-Westphalia. It was February 20,...
