Count Alfred Julien Gabriel Gérard Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé was an insidious poisoner who came from the highest echelons of Belgian aristocracy. He was the son of Count Julien Visart de Bocarmé and...
A horrific massacre in which over 40 people lost their lives took place on 10 August 1896 on Guadalcanal, the main island of the Solomon Islands, an archipelago in the South Pacific. On 2 October, the...
In 1912, a newspaper article appeared in St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, which struck fear into the hearts of readers. It reported on a cannibalistic murder duo from the village of Kurdla...
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring. Foll...
The following gripping criminal case proves that poisonings are not only committed by women. It was 17 November 1909 when Captain Richard Mader, who served in the railway department of the Imperial an...
One of the most chilling female serial killers in criminal history was the 15-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Bougaran, who, in an extremely perfidious manner, killed the children entrusted to he...
