Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
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,...
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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...
A true crime story that reads like the script of a horror film took place in the autumn of 1978 in a remote area of Modesto, California. It was 29 September when 15-year-old Mary Vincent decided to hitchhike to her grandfather’s house in Berkeley....
Carroll Edward “Eddie” Cole was an American serial killer who killed no fewer than 14 women between 1971 and 1980. What was unique about this serial killer was that he repeatedly contacted the authorities before his first murder and told them about his murder...
In the bustling metropolis of London in the late 1990s, a serial rapist was on the loose who drugged women in his black cab and then raped them. This sex offender was therefore dubbed “The Black Cab Rapist” by the media. He turned out...
