A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born...
The seaside resort of Zinnowitz, in the north of the island of Usedom, is regarded as a popular holiday paradise on the picturesque Baltic Sea coast. In this idyllic Baltic resort, surrounded by unspo...
A spectacular murder case that still sends shivers down the spine today took place in Wiener Neustadt in 1973. It was 3 March 1973 when 11-year-old Gabriele K. was on her way home from school. As she ...
There are murders that are sometimes difficult to comprehend, as they occur without any clearly identifiable motive. One such series of murders, which ranks among the worst massacres in Greek criminal...
As is well known, real life writes the best stories, as the following criminal case proves. On 8 August 2018, Ekaterina R.-S., a 48-year-old woman originally from Bulgaria, found her 60-year-old husba...
Thallium is a heavy metal which, like arsenic, was formerly used as rat poison because it is odourless and tasteless. However, it is not only lethal to rats, but also to humans. One man who used it as...
