A true story that never ceases to shock me is that of Blanche Monnier, who was locked up by her own mother, Louise Monnier, in the attic of their house in the French town of Poitiers for 25 years, wit...
One of the most famous German serial killers in literature was Simeon Fleischer. Born in Fulda, Simeon Fleischer trained as a wool weaver and had a special talent for wrapping women around his finger....
One of the biggest manhunts of the post-war period, which lasted over two years and was the most expensive search in the history of the Federal Republic, was for Bruno Fabeyer. This 1.75-meter-tall, s...
The Frauenkirche is undoubtedly the landmark of the Elbe metropolis of Dresden. The foundation stone for the Protestant church was laid on August 26, 1726. For the Lutheran citizens of Dresden, the Fr...
An assassination that inspired the world-famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi to write his legendary opera “Un ballo in maschera” took place on March 16, 1792, at the Stockholm Opera House. A masked...
A slight, pale man with a neatly combed side parting and rimless glasses managed, over a period of more than ten years, not only to gain control over an educated French aristocratic family spanning th...
