The Russian Valery Georgievich Asratyan, better known as ‘the Director’, was a paedophile, serial rapist and murderer of young girls. He was born in 1958 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. He grew up i...
One of the most mysterious cases in German criminal history is the murder of the ballet master Hans Storck. It was 22 May 1962 when 13-year-old Axel Rumpf von Mansfeld, who was staying with his grandm...
The year is 1854. At that time, Mrs Jacob, a widow, lived with her lovely daughter Marie in a house on Breiten Gang in the Neustadt district of Hamburg. The widow, who worked as a laundress, was extre...
A truly gripping crime thriller centred on dumplings laced with arsenic took place in Britain after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The petite Elizabeth Fenning, known as Eliza, had been working as a ...
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born in...
The year was 1918, when the First World War had come to an end. There were supply shortages throughout Austria, which led to the emergence of black markets. These were, so to speak, the supermarkets o...
