Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
British serial killer couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were described as the spawn of hell, shocking an entire nation after raping, torturing, and murdering innocent children. This serial killer couple went down in British criminal history as the Moors Murderers, as they committed...
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One of Austria’s most thrilling criminal cases involves the gruesome murders of women by Wolfang Ott, whose crimes only came to light by chance. It all began with cries for help from a woman that residents heard coming from a house in Vienna’s 23rd...
A murder so brutal that it shook the whole of Austria was that of 59-year-old Hungarian businesswoman Ildiko, whose killer was her own son. Ildiko had once married a count from an ancient Hungarian noble family. But shortly after the birth of their son...
The date is June 1, 1583. It was a warm summer evening when a well-dressed nobleman, who had just arrived from Prague in his four-horse carriage, took a room at the innkeeper Greger Rühel’s, as it was still three and a half miles to...
The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim was 34-year-old Josefine Timal in 1883. Shortly afterwards, her 47-year-old aunt Katharina Timal was killed, followed just six weeks later by Theresia Ketterl and...
A police officer, of all people, became a victim of his own legal system. On April 16, 1968, 24-year-old police officer Ernst Karl shot and killed two burglars in the garage of the Tivoli department store in Vienna’s 12th district, Meidling, with his service...
