The story of Marie Margarethe Beier—known simply as Grete—could easily have come straight out of a penny dreadful. She was a woman just 5 feet tall and extremely cunning, whose love for a petty crimin...
The youngest people in Irish history to be convicted of murder were two 14-year-old boys. They had brutally killed a young girl in what appeared to be a satanic ritual. Their victim was 14-year-old An...
An intriguing criminal case, which had to be pieced together like a puzzle, unfolded on May 11, 2006. That night, a hemp plantation ready for harvest in Venray, north of the Dutch city of Venlo, was r...
A criminal case as tricky as a puzzle took place in 1998. On November 23, around 9 a.m., a cyclist discovered the body of a young woman near the Dutch city of Venlo; she was covered in leaves from the...
One of the most notorious murder cases in Spanish criminal history involves the so-called Alcásser girls. These were three girls—Miriam García Iborra, Antonia Gómez Rodríguez, and Desirée Hernández Fo...
The worst female poisoner of all time, who is even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was Maria Catharina Swanenberg, better known as “Goeie Mie,” which means “Good Mia” in English. Good Mi...
