According to legend, the legendary Scottish Bean family was a whole clan that hunted people, not only to rob them but also to devour them with relish. They wreaked havoc during the reign of King James...
Bruges, the romantic capital of the Belgian province of West Flanders, is regarded as the ultimate chocolate city. In the historic old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, there are over 50 chocolate s...
One of the most brutal mass murderers in Austrian criminal history was Ernst Dostal. He went down in history as the subject of the largest manhunt in the Second Republic of Austria. On 13 June 1973, g...
One of the iconic figures in Vienna’s criminal history was master tailor Ferdinand Wurzinger, whose extravagant lifestyle proved to be his undoing. Ferdinand Wurzinger came from a middle-class backgro...
This question remains unanswered to this day, making it one of Germany’s most mysterious cold cases. The New Year of 1994 was barely six hours old when a horrific crime took place in the Hanseatic cit...
In 1862, the biggest letter theft of all time was uncovered in Vienna, in which a postal official had embezzled over 200,000 letters over a period of years, suspecting they contained money. The postal...
