Even in ancient times, poison was used to eliminate enemies or simply unwanted people. One who met this fate was the Greek philosopher Socrates, who was sentenced to death by the cup of hemlock during...
A hostage crisis that kept all of Germany on the edge of its seat took place on October 31, 1994. At 4 a.m. that Monday, the felons Raymond Albert and Gerhard Polak took a police officer and his femal...
Some women feel magically drawn to bad boys, even though these men always put their own interests first and rarely turn into tame, cuddly cats. One such bad boy—who killed four people yet still drew w...
A truly heinous murder, which still raises many questions to this day, took place on May 15, 2006, in the penthouse above the Isarparkhaus at Baaderstr. 6 in the Bavarian capital of Munich. On that da...
In July 2021, a vicious assassination attempt was carried out against prominent crime reporter Peter de Vries, shocking the Netherlands. After a television appearance in Amsterdam, Peter de Vries was ...
A politician’s son gone astray and then implicated in a murder case—that was, of course, a political disaster for a high-ranking local politician. That’s why everything was arranged so that, in the en...
