One of the worst serial killers in Russian criminal history is Alexander Pichushkin, better known as the Chessboard Killer. He wanted to kill 64 people, the same number of squares on a chessboard. Ale...
The city of Roermond, located in the Dutch province of Limburg on the border with Germany and close to Belgium, was once the scene of a bloody massacre in which 13 priests and monks were slaughtered o...
A true family tragedy that ended with the death of a tyrant took place on November 22, 1923, in the Danube metropolis of Vienna. That night, 46-year-old restaurateur August Fritschko, better known as ...
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train st...
After the end of World War II, gangs of robbers wreaked havoc in Austria’s capital, Vienna. They were known as the Plattenbrüder (Plate Brothers), and the most dangerous and largest criminal org...
One of the most ruthless poisoners in German criminal history was Anna Margaretha Zwanziger, who was born on August 7, 1760, in her parents’ inn “Zum schwarzen Kreuz” (The Black Cross) in Nuremb...
