Countess Henkel von Kramschütz was a true femme fatale who instantly set every man’s heart aflutter. The attractive countess had many admirers who financed her extremely lavish lifestyle. In December ...
On his day off, February 20, 1995, 44-year-old detective Christian Gillinger was up early to buy his 8-year-old son’s favorite doughnuts at a small pastry shop in Vienna’s Hietzing district for his bi...
One of the most dangerous criminal gangs of the postwar era, which terrorized all of Munich, was the Panther Gang. The leader of this ruthless gang was Hugo Werner, a 21-year-old Munich bricklayer’s a...
Mathias Kneißl was a true bandit legend who continues to inspire countless films and books to this day. This last bandit of Bavaria was born on May 12, 1875, in Unterweikertshofen. Mathias was the eld...
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in a ...
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom. In the past, people often...
